Mansour Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. We aren’t getting any formal information from the Iraqi government,” said Gen. Someone is recruiting them to be suicide bombers. The Saudi government does not dispute that some of its youths are ending up as suicide bombers in Iraq, but says it has done everything it can to stop the bloodshed. Despite its name, the extent of the group’s links to Bin Laden’s network, based along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier, is unclear. The group, one of several Sunni Muslim insurgent groups operating in Baghdad and beyond, relies on foreigners to carry out suicide attacks because Iraqis are less likely to undertake such strikes, which the movement hopes will provoke sectarian violence, Bergner said. Now, a group that calls itself Al Qaeda in Iraq is the greatest short-term threat to Iraq’s security, U.S. Indeed, Saudi Arabia has long been a source of a good portion of the money and manpower for Al Qaeda: 15 of the 19 hijackers in the Sept. At the time, Saudi intelligence cultivated another man helping the Afghan fighters, Osama bin Laden, the future leader of Al Qaeda who would one day turn against the Saudi royal family and mastermind the Sept. In the 1980s, the Saudi intelligence service sponsored Sunni Muslim fighters for the U.S.-backed Afghan mujahedin battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The problem casts a spotlight on the tangled web of alliances and enmities that underlie the political relations between Muslim nations and the U.S. forces, Iraqi civilians and the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. military in the awkward position of battling an enemy whose top source of foreign fighters is a key ally that at best has not been able to prevent its citizens from undertaking bloody attacks in Iraq, and at worst shares complicity in sending extremists to commit attacks against U.S. In the last six months, such bombings have killed or injured 4,000 Iraqis. He said 50% of all Saudi fighters in Iraq come here as suicide bombers. official has given such a breakdown on the role played by Saudi nationals in Iraq’s Sunni Arab insurgency. officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the subject’s sensitivity. That figure is 20%.įighters from Saudi Arabia are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than those of any other nationality, said the senior U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces were from Syria or Lebanon. The article also said that 15% of foreign militants targeting U.S.
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military had 135 foreigners in detention facilities in Iraq. Saudi fighters: An article in Sunday’s Section A about Saudi insurgents in Iraq said the U.S.
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