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Anatomy Lesson

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Many have assumed that foreign fighters form the bulk of these terrorists, and some that that they include a large Saudi presence. For example, an Israeli report claims that 61% of the foreign fighters killed and 70% of the Suicide bombers in Iraq were Saudi … intelligence experts and the patterns in detentions indicate the largest component of the insurgency is composed of Iraqis. While no one knows the number of active and part time insurgents, paid agents, and sympathizers, the pattern of detainments and intelligence analysis indicates that the total number of foreign volunteers is well below 10%, and may well be closer to 4-6% … the number of Saudis is around 12% of the foreign contingent (approximately 350), or 1.2% of the total insurgency of approximately 30,000. Algerians constitute the largest contingent at 20%, followed closely by Syrians (18%), Yemenis (17%), Sudanese (15%), Egyptians (13%) and those from other states (5%).

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