Thursday, September 28, 2006

Fire and Fuel

Mia Culpa: Stay the Course: "Stay the Course

A second report confirms the obvious:

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. report released on Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training center 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...'"

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