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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Uhhh - How do you say that when 99% are outsiders from other countries? Seems you missed that point completely.
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really don't mean to get in the way here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_i...n_participants
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While it is not known how many of those resisting the U.S. occupation in Iraq are from outside the country, it is generally agreed that foreign fighters make up a very small percentage of the insurgency. Major General Joseph Taluto, head of the 42nd Infantry Division, said that "99.9 per cent" of captured Insurgents are Iraqi.
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in one analysis of over 1000 insurgents captured in Fallujah, only 15 were non-Iraqi
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There are allegations that the U.S. government has attempted to inflate the number of foreign fighters in order to advance the theory that the Resistance is not a local movement.
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