Big surprise. You need terrorists to kill thousands of Americans in skyscrapers, the Saudis are lined up. You need terrorists to join you in killing American troops in Iraq, the Saudis are more than willing to help.
This report breaks down the latest figures out of data from the War in Iraq regarding the homeland of al Qaeda in Iraq fighters. Here's where they are coming from:
Saudi Arabia 41 percent
Libya 19 percent
Syria 8 percent
Yemen 8 percent
Algerian 7 percent
Morocco 7 percent
I mean look at it. It's not even close. When is this so-called "ally" of the U.S. going to be called out officially on the carpet? We are all up in arms about Iran sending in operatives into Iraq yet do we hear even a peep about the hundreds of Saudis entering Iraq to kill American troops? Nope.
This report breaks down the latest figures out of data from the War in Iraq regarding the homeland of al Qaeda in Iraq fighters. Here's where they are coming from:
Saudi Arabia 41 percent
Libya 19 percent
Syria 8 percent
Yemen 8 percent
Algerian 7 percent
Morocco 7 percent
I mean look at it. It's not even close. When is this so-called "ally" of the U.S. going to be called out officially on the carpet? We are all up in arms about Iran sending in operatives into Iraq yet do we hear even a peep about the hundreds of Saudis entering Iraq to kill American troops? Nope.
Saudis biggest group of al Qaeda Iraq fighters: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most al Qaeda fighters in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and Libya and many are university-aged students, said a study released on Wednesday by researchers at the U.S. Army's West Point military academy.
The study was based on 606 personnel records collected by al Qaeda in Iraq and captured by coalition troops in October. It includes data on fighters who entered Iraq, largely through Syria, between August 2006 and August 2007.
The researchers at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center found that 41 percent of the fighters were Saudi nationals.
Libyan nationals accounted for the second largest group entering Iraq in that time period with about 19 percent of the total, followed by Syrians and Yemenis each at 8 percent, Algerians with 7 percent and Moroccans at 6 percent.
"The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be linked (to) the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's increasingly cooperative relationship with al-Qa'ida, which culminated in the LIFG officially joining al-Qa'ida on November 3, 2007," wrote authors Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman.
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