Foreign Fighters in Iraq Come From US "Allies"

Guardian UK - More than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia, America's key partner in the Middle East, according to detailed information seized from a camp used by them. Documents and computers found by the US army at Sinjar, on the Iraqi-Syrian border, revealed that the other single largest group came from Libya, which is now being rehabilitated as a reliable western ally.

The captured data has been described as an intelligence treasure trove that included biographical details and the hometowns of the more than 700 fighters who entered Iraq since August 2006. Of those 307, or 41%, were Saudis and 137, or 18%, Libyans, senior US military sources told the New York Times.

Did anyone see this reported on Fox News? Me neither.

So Bush is sabre rattling at Iran, he includes Syria as an "axis of evil" in the now infamous 2002 State of the Union address, but his business partners in Saudi Arabia are suicide bombing the shit out of us. I wonder if our "ally's" borders are as carefully watched as Iran's or Syria's... Heckuva job, Georgie.