U.S. officials: Iraqi insurgents educating Afghan, Pakistani militants

[Patters]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/14235657.htm

Islamic militants in Iraq are providing military training and other assistance to Taliban and al Qaida fighters from eastern and southern Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas, U.S. intelligence officials told Knight Ridder.

A small number of Pakistani and Afghan militants are receiving military training in Iraq; Iraqi fighters have met with Afghan and Pakistani extremists in Pakistan; and militants in Afghanistan increasingly are using homemade bombs, suicide attacks and other tactics honed in Iraq, said U.S. intelligence officials and others who track the issue.

Several Afghan and Pakistani "exchange students" volunteered to join the fight against American and Iraqi forces in Iraq, but were told to return to Afghanistan and Pakistan to train other militants there, two U.S. intelligence officials said. They and other officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because the intelligence is highly classified.

The intelligence suggests that if the trend continues, American forces, already contending with escalating violence in Iraq, could face the same thing in Afghanistan in the coming months, further complicating the Bush administration's plans to withdraw some troops.

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It's obvious that Al Qaida did not have much depth in the U.S. Since 9/11, they haven't waged another attack. They were simply a rag tag army that got lucky on that tragic day as a result, in part of intelligence failures by the Bush administration. But, now we are turning Al Qaida into the monster we fear -- Iraq has proven a tremendous training ground and recruitment for all sorts of radicals who hate America.

Using Iraqi and American troops as target practice has helped them develop skills at battling a superpower. We have made them stronger, and now they are training others. Bush and his supporters have made the world a more dangerous place, and let's not forget that since 9/11, 2,500 American soldiers have died and thousands more have been injured. It seems unlikely that if we had not gone to war in Iraq we would have suffered so much more loss.

[Patters]

Originally Posted by NEM

Thank you George W. Bush for creating an enemy that will continue to get bigger, bigger, bigger and even more deadly...You have created a force that will destroy what it took 42 presidents before you to create, the greatest nation on the face of the earth...

You are a freaking moron Mister Bush, and anyone who still is loyal to you is a total arse... and a brainwashed fool..... You have destroyed this nation in five short years, and there are millions who felll in ine right behind you because they are as much a fool as you, Mister Bush, You friggin AWOL, yellow bellied fascist pig.

Perpetual war is the dream of the Raytheons, Halliburtons, and their equivalents all around the world. The only thing that will break the cycle is tragedies that are so severe they even affect the right-wing. Obviously, 2500 dead soldiers is not nearly enough of a tragedy.

[Turk]

Originally Posted by Patters

Perpetual war is the dream of the Raytheons, Halliburtons, and their equivalents all around the world. The only thing that will break the cycle is tragedies that are so severe they even affect the right-wing. Obviously, 2500 dead soldiers is not nearly enough of a tragedy.

War is good business, always has been.

How incurably sick we humans must look to God!