(Weekly Standard) 61% of Jihadists are SAUDI.

[Roland99]

The Face of Iraqi Terrorism
A new study shows where the foreign fighters in Iraq are coming from. Care to guess?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/311vacul.asp

The sample does not account for all jihadists in Iraq, but provides a useful and eye-opening profile of them. Saudi Arabia accounted for 94 jihadists, or 61 percent of the sample, followed by Syria with 16 (10 percent), Iraq itself with only 13 (8 percent), and Kuwait with 11 (7 percent.) The rest included small numbers from Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Morocco (of which one was a resident in Spain), Yemen, Tunisia, the Palestinian territories (only 1), Dubai, and Sudan. The Sudanese was living in Saudi Arabia before he went to die in Iraq.

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* "Another element to note is the relatively small number of Iraqis involved in the fighting on behalf of the Zarqawi group."

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The predominance of Saudis in Iraqi terrorism also goes a long way toward explaining the other fact that Western media and government have been reluctant to admit: the role of Wahhabism as an inciter of violence against Shias. Wahhabis hate Shias even more than Christians and Jews, because, as Saudi schools (including those like the Islamic Saudi Academy in the United States) teach, Christians and Jews have their own religions that are openly opposed to Islam, but Shias want to "change Islam," which the Wahhabis consider the personal property of the Saudi rulers. Few in the West seemed to notice earlier this week when 2,000 people assembled in Hilla, near Baghdad, to protest a car bombing that killed at least 125. The demonstrators chanted "No to terrorism! No to Baathism and Wahhabism!"

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Only one thing needs to be added: it's time to close Saudi Arabia's northern border, silence the jihadist preachers, and cut off the financing of international Wahhabism.

[dogday]

1. Saudi Arabia has been our biggest threat and Bush's Best Friend

[headin_south]

2. no surprise...

the saudis are running scared. one thing i'll give bush is that he's...kinda...breaking the fucked up relationship we've had with those religious fundamentalist nutjobs.

[DistressedAmerican]

3. No Wonder Bush Loves Then So Much!

[cliss]

4. The Weekly Standard....

isn't this the PNAC's very own Tabloid rag? I believe the editor is William Kristol, who is a "Founding father" of the Radical Right.

I would be hesitant to trust this publication. Am I wrong?

[Roland99]

5. They're reporting a study done by an Israeli expert on terrorism.

I've found the article elsewhere but I thought I'd post this link since we have the neocon haven apparently "outing" the Saudi influence.

And, if the Saudis are skirting across their own border with Iraq, why are our Marine squads being decimated fighting in towns bordering Syria??

[DistressedAmerican]

6. Kick!