Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
 
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:27:10 -0500 (CDT)

AMY GOODMAN: What about the LA Times piece looking at who are the
foreign fighters in Iraq, and, in fact, there are far more Saudi
fighters in Iraq than Iranian?

DAHR JAMAIL: That's correct. And I mention that in the piece that I
did for Foreign Policy in Focus, because I tied it in with the fact
that not long ago, as we recall, there was a $60 billion arms
arms deal for the Middle East. Of course, Israel got $30 billion for
their quote/unquote "strategic advantage" to be maintained, but Saudi
Arabia received $20 billion. And talking about hypocrisy, that's
on top of the fact that, according to that LA Times piece, that half
of the foreign fighters being held in US detention facilities were
actually Saudi Arabian. There were no Iranians. They were over -- at
least half of them Saudi Arabian. [of course the largest number of
"foreign fighters" in Iraq come from another country -- they are the
young men and women Bush sends to kill and be killed for his war of
empire]

excepted from

Dahr Jamail: "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded
Journalist in Occupied Iraq"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1351251

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