(New UN Report) Al Qaeda gains recruits from Iraq war - UN study

[truthpusher]

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/09/28/world/al-qaeda-gains-recruits-from-iraq-war-un-study.html

Al Qaeda gains recruits from Iraq war - UN study
28/09/2006 00:33

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. report released on Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training centre and recruits, reinforcing a U.S. intelligence study blaming the conflict for a surge in Islamic extremism.

The report by terrorism experts working for the U.N. Security Council said al Qaeda was playing a central role in the fighting in Iraq as well as inspiring a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, several hundred miles (km) away.

"New explosive devices are now used in Afghanistan within a month of their first appearing in Iraq," said the report. "And while the Taliban have not been found fighting outside Afghanistan/Pakistan, there have been reports of them training in both Iraq and Somalia."

Al Qaeda, it said, "has gained by continuing to play a central role in the fighting (in Iraq) and in encouraging the growth of sectarian violence, and Iraq has provided many recruits and an excellent training ground," it said. more: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/09/28/world/al-qaeda-gains-recruits-from-iraq-war-un-study.html

[Anakin Skywalker]

1. Doh! We Didn't See This Coming At All!

:sarcasm:

[nam78_two]

2. what do those wine-drinking, cheese eaters at the UN know

:sarcasm:

[LynnTheDem]

3. Now listen up, world...STOP SAYING THAT!!!

Even bush's own govt officials are saying it IS true!

But bush says it ain't true.

So STOP SAYING THAT!!!

DEAD...DESTROYED...MAIMED...RUINED...for bush's lies.

How many more, America???

[Moderator]

4. duplicate

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