Trail of Anti-U.S. Fighters Said to Cross Europe to Iraq

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/06/international/europe/06QAED.html?ex=1071291600&en=6e113ea4bfe47619&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

A string of recent arrests of terror suspects has shown that Al Qaeda and groups linked to it have established a network across Europe that is moving recruits into Iraq to join the insurgency against American and allied forces, European intelligence and law enforcement officials said this week.

Over the past year, the officials estimate, the network of recruiters working in at least six European countries — Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Britain and Norway — has assisted hundreds of young men trying to get to Iraq. The network provided high quality fake documents, training, money, and infiltration routes into the country, the officials said.

They said the evidence indicated that the campaign to recruit young militant Muslims for Iraq had become better organized and coordinated in recent months.

According to an investigating judge in Italy, the new network is building on an underground that helped smuggle fighters out of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the fall of 2001, when Taliban and Qaeda forces were routed by American-led allied troops. But since the end of last year the flow of recruits, including young men from Europe and North Africa, has turned toward the new front in Iraq, the judge said. "In August and September people were approaching the borders of Iraq, in Turkey and Syria," he said. "These people got very close and it's very easy for them to slip in."

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[Aidoneus]

1. foreign militants also make up the "Coalition" group of killers

thousands of them, in fact. The money trail is right out in the open, even.. This menace, these killers, have to be shut down!

[Jester_11218]

2. Uniter not a divider!

Bush indeed kept his promise to be a uniter. He left out the detail that he would unite the world against us!

A minor detail, but worth pointing out.

[0007]

3. Strange!

Non-uniformed folks are called non-combatants, while uniformed folks are legal assassins.