November 22, 2007 (LPAC)--Saudi Arabia was the source of 41% of the foreign fighters who came into Iraq during the past year to carry out suicide bombings or other attacks, according to an analyis conducted by the U.S. military and leaked to the New York Times. This is consistent with the efforts of the British- and Cheney-allied Prince Bandar grouping in Saudi Arabia, to build up a fundamentalist Sunni "buffer state'' in al-Anbar and other border areas of Iraq, as EIR has already documented.

Although 40% percent was the previous rough estimate for Saudi fighters, detailed analysis of documents and computer data seized in a raid on a desert camp near the Syrian border provided substantiation of this, with biographical data on more than 700 fighters who entered Iraq between Aug. 2007 and Sept. 2007. In reporting this today, the New York Times also notes that foreign fighters make up only a small portion of the insurgency in Iraq, which remains overwhelmingly Iraqi and Sunni. Of more than 25,000 inmates in U.S. detention camps in Iraq, who are suspected of insurgent activity or considered a threat to security, only about one percent are foreigners.

And despite all the propaganda aimed at Iran by U.S. officials, only 11 Iranians are in U.S. custody...