Calls to Jihad Are Said to Lure Hundreds of Militants Into Iraq

[fizzana]

LONDON, Oct. 31 — Across Europe and the Middle East, young militant Muslim men are answering a call issued by Osama bin Laden and other extremists, and leaving home to join the fight against the American-led occupation in Iraq, according to senior counterterrorism officials based in six countries.

The intelligence officials say that since late summer they have detected a growing stream of itinerant Muslim militants headed for Iraq. They estimate that hundreds of young men from an array of countries have now arrived in Iraq by crossing the Syrian or Iranian borders.

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Before the American-led invasion in March, counterterrorism officials and terrorism experts warned that the military action would be used by militant Muslims to recruit a new generation of terrorists, and that Iraq would draw them into the fray.

Al Qaeda leaders have repeatedly invoked the struggle in Iraq. In an audiotape broadcast by Al Jazeera satellite network earlier this month, Mr. bin Laden cited Iraq as the newest front in the terror network's international jihad.

http://nytimes.com/2003/11/01/international/middleeast/01RECR.html?hp

These people are "desparate" to kill Americans so by Bush's reasoning we must be succeeding.

[Brucey]

1. Yes, it's all one great success story.

Can't you just see the made for TV special starring Ahnold. It will be called, "Bring 'em on."