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The war in Iraq continues to entice Islamic terrorists from around the world – all traveling to the newly liberated Arab state for the purpose of killing Americans and turning world opinion against the rebuilding of the nation, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Egyptian security and intelligence community was ordered by President Hosni Mubarak to investigate Islamic militant recruitment efforts for a ”jihad campaign in Iraq,” according to the online intelligence newsletter.
Police have obtained information of a number of mosques and prayer halls where young worshippers were encouraged to volunteer to go to Iraq to fight U.S.-led coalition forces.
Those who volunteered, including many non-Egyptians and a few converts to Islam, received ”travel money and documents,” and were instructed to use two different avenues of infiltrating Iraq.
The first is through Lebanon and Syria and the second leads from Jordan.
The Egyptians alerted the Jordanian security service to the presence of guides waiting for the volunteers in the southern port city of Aqaba. Most volunteers are then transferred to the city of Maan, where they are instructed to continue to Amman and from there to find their way to the Iraqi border.
All operations related to this recruiting effort are being financed by Zakat, or charity funds, controlled by radical clergy.
G2B has learned of yet another recruitment effort, this time in Europe, where talent scouts try to locate Arab and other veterans of the war in Chechnya. These volunteers are being briefed mainly in London and then sent to Scandinavia, especially to Sweden, where they receive new identities, funds and documents.
From there the volunteers are sent to Lebanon and on to Syria, where they are briefed and, in some cases, even trained by Syrian intelligence and bomb experts of the Hezbollah.
President Bush said Friday that a ”collection of killers is trying to shake the will of America and the civilized world.”
”Saddam holdouts and foreign terrorists are desperately trying to throw that country into chaos,” he said. ”This country will not be intimidated.”
His remarks about foreign terrorists echoed those made by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz upon his return from Iraq.
”Foreign terrorists are trying to create conditions of fear. Freedom is what terrorists fear most,” said Wolfowitz. ”It doesn’t take very many people to mount a terrorist attack. It can effectively obscure the larger picture.”
The number of U.S. troops killed since May 1, when Washington declared the end to major hostilities is 144.
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