From Yemen to Iraq (4)
YO: Of the estimated 3,000 foreign fighters (in Iraq), the largest number - about 20 percent - comes from Algeria, followed by Syria and Yemen with about 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively, said the report issued Monday. About 15 percent come from Sudan, 12 percent from Saudi Arabia, 5 percent from Egypt, and the rest from other countries.
The report, written by Nawaf Obaid and Anthony Cordesman, was a contrast to accounts contending that Saudis make up a large proportion of foreign fighters in the insurgency that has persisted since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in March 2003.
This 17% is by nationality, not origin of training. One time I wrote something about breaking the pact of evil from Iraq to Yemen and replacing it with a pact of democracy from Yemen to Iraq. I meant peacefully, without military intervention, by actively supporting the democracy advocates in Yemen of which there are many.
