I REGRET THAT YOU HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR MY BANK ACCOUNT:

Most suicide bombers in Iraq are foreigners: Attackers smuggled in from Sunni communities as human bombs (AP, July 1, 2005)

The vast majority of suicide attackers in Iraq are thought to be foreigners — mostly Saudis and other Gulf Arabs — and the trend has become more pronounced this year with North Africans also streaming in to carry out deadly missions, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.

The bombers are recruited from Sunni communities, smuggled into Iraq from Syria after receiving religious indoctrination, and then quickly bundled into cars or strapped with explosive vests and sent to their deaths, the officials told The Associated Press. The young men are not so much fighters as human bombs — a relatively small but deadly component of the Iraqi insurgency.

If you're a Ba'athist fighting to retain personal power and privilege you're not going to die for it.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 1, 2005 2:33 PM