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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer than 2 percent of the captives held in Iraq as security threats are suspected foreign fighters, undercutting Bush Administration assertions of the big role of non-Iraqis in the insurgency, USA Today said on Tuesday.
Of the approximately 5,700 people considered to be enemy fighters or security risks held captive by coalition forces in Iraq, 90 are non-Iraqis, according to information from the U.S. military command handling detention facilities in Iraq, the newspaper reported
Look, I have no doubt that some of the insurgent actions in Iraq are being planned, coordinated, financed, and instigated by non-Iraqi nationals. But, the question is whether they're the prime mover behind the insurgency, or a relatively small player. So far, all evidence has pointed to them being relatively small players.