From: Ad 

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=21137

" Iraq has overtaken Afghanistan as an ideal training ground for
Jihadists to export their battle across and beyond the Middle East, experts
say.

The new generation of Islamist militants in Iraq are more battle-hardened
than their veteran anti-Soviet counterparts from Afghanistan, and the
export of their Muslim "holy war" to calmer Arab countries has
become a phenomenon.

The presence of Saudi, Jordanian and Yemeni volunteers in the besieged
Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon, as well as
arrests in Jordan and Saudi Arabia of Jihadists coming from Iraq illustrate
this.

"The Iraqi resistance doesn't need people inside, they have more than
they need, freeing up foreign fighters to fight elsewhere," said
Marwan Shehadeh, an expert in radical movements with the Vision Research
Institute in Amman.

"They are in contact with each other because Salafi (strict Muslim)
ideology is spread all over Arab and Islamic countries," he said.

"They're ready to work, they're well trained and ready to start a
global war against their enemies, not only the United States and Israel but
also Western-backed Arab regimes."

A Western diplomat said he could not see how the spread of Jihadist
ideology could be contained.

"Jihadists (spreading their ideology) are already in the region.
Things are well advanced. It's a huge fear of Jordan," said the
diplomat posted in Amman, requesting anonymity."


Adam

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