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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Here's what Juan Cole says about this:
"Rather, looks like infiltration of Iraqi fighters from Fallujah."
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Given my understanding that the cordon around Fallujah is actually pretty effective, the idea that a fairly organized armed force of 1000 could sneak out to stage an action elsewhere seems ... unlikely. The 10,000 captured Cole describes appears to include all captured insurgents, throughout Iraq, which seems of little value in discussing a specific raid in a specific location. Contra, Dekba reported that the Husayba fighters were a mixed bag and not predominantly Iraqi. (They also concluded that the raid was Syrian backed. I tried to find a working link but couldn't, but I put about as much value in Debka's spin as I do Cole's anyway, except to the extent their choice of spin supports my supposition that "our people" delivering a slap to Syria would likely be the Israelis.)
