Monday, May 28, 2007

Iraq beginning to export fighters and the tactics they have honed in the insurgency to neighboring countries and beyond

"Dennis Pluchinsky, a former senior intelligence analyst at the State Department, said 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... Fatah al Islam's leader Al Abssi, an associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi confirmed reports that Syrian government forces had killed his son-in-law as he tried crossing into Iraq to collaborate with insurgents... The logistics team included at least one recent refugee from Iraq, a 34-year-old former Iraqi Army soldier named Mohsen al-Wissi. He was among the estimated 1.5 million to 2 million Iraqis now living in Jordan and Syria."
Read the full NYTimes article here.

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