Who was it that said the real name for Operaton Iraqi Freedom should be Operation Kick The Hornet’s nest?
A team of militants from Iraq had traveled to Jordan, where they were preparing attacks on Americans and Jews, Mr. Darsi said the recruiter told him. He asked Mr. Darsi to join them and blow himself up in a crowd of tourists at Queen Alia Airport in Amman...
...The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters and the tactics they have honed in the insurgency to neighboring countries and beyond, according to American, European and Middle Eastern government officials and interviews with militant leaders in Lebanon, Jordan and London.
Some of the fighters appear to be leaving as part of the waves of Iraqi refugees crossing borders that government officials acknowledge they struggle to control. But others are dispatched from Iraq for specific missions. In the Jordanian airport plot, the authorities said they believed that the bomb maker flew from Baghdad to prepare the explosives for Mr. Darsi.
What else do I need say here?
More than 30 Lebanese soldiers were killed fighting the group at a refugee camp near Tripoli.
The War on Terror is spreading terror everywhere.
Militant leaders warn that the situation in Lebanon is indicative of the spread of fighters. "You have 50 fighters from Iraq in Lebanon now, but with good caution I can say there are a hundred times that many, 5,000 or higher, who are just waiting for the right moment to act," Dr. Mohammad al-Massari, a Saudi dissident in Britain who runs the jihadist Internet forum, Tajdeed.net, said in an interview on Friday. "The flow of fighters is already going back and forth, and the fight will be everywhere until the United States is willing to cease and desist."
It looks like there are people flying into Iraq, fighting as insurgents, then flying home for respites in Europe. We can’t even fill the ranks of the US Army without counting drug addicts and felons. These fuckers are rotating in and out. Shit think of all the Young Republicans – or should I say Yellow Elephants- who are sitting out this war they so cowardly cheerlead behind their keyboards and you wonder who will win this war.
US intelligence officials said that battle-hardened militants from Iraq posed a greater threat to the West than extremists who trained in Afghanistan because Iraq had become a laboratory for urban guerrilla tactics. Who would have ever guessed that an unprovoked invasion with an insufficient attacking force moving into a mideast country would provoke this sort of unmitigated chaos?
What one learns in urban warfighting applies to the neighborhoods where anti western Islam is thriving – Londonistan for example, in the words of the famous if not discredited Christopher Hitchens.
A top American military official who tracks terrorism in Iraq and the surrounding region, and who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said: "Do I think in the future the jihad will be fueled from the battlefield of Iraq? Yes. More so than the battlefield of Afghanistan."
Militants in Iraq are turning out instructional videos and electronic newsletters on the Internet that lay out their playbook for a startling array of techniques, from encryption to booby-trapped bombs to surface-to-air missiles, and those manuals are circulating freely in cyberspace.
And guess what? Signature tactics that are common in Iraq are showing up on Somalia and other places. Who woulda guessed it?
Uh...lt’s see...US!
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