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Tony Karon on foreign fighters in Iraq
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003
On Foreign Fighters in Iraq I
(Thursday, October 30, 2003)
It may be comforting to blame the violence in Iraq on foreign fighters
inspired by the likes of Osama bin Laden, but it could also be
self-deluding. To be sure, bin Laden has urged his followers to head
for Iraq to wage jihad, and hundreds may have answered his call. It
may well be that some of the suicide terror strikes on soft targets
are the work of foreigners, the Baathists being a secular lot who
prefer to live to fight another day (as their surrender of Baghdad six
months ago amply illustrates). Nobody really knows precisely who is
behind the terror strikes or the escalating guerrilla war against U.S.
and coalition forces. Besides the spectacular suicide strikes, in the
past week alone there have more than 230 attacks on U.S. forces and
their allies, most of them hit-and-run ambushes using a growing range
of different weapons and munitions — mortars, RPGs, antitank mines,
remote-detonated improvised explosives, surface-to-air missiles and so
on. U.S. commanders on the ground believe most of those attacks are
carried out by Iraqis, be they loyalists of the old regime, or
Islamists and nationalists who have made common cause with the
Baathists.
Tony Karon
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