What the hell, let's make it 4x on Iraq

i've seen this posted on several other blogs today but the irony is overwhelming... irony... what an interesting word... it sounds so positively high-falutin', as my grandma used to say... it may be the right word for the following story but i'm afraid it just doesn't quite conjure up the right sand-in-the-vaseline image...

The CIA believes the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may produce better-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.

A classified report from the U.S. spy agency says Iraqi and foreign fighters are developing a broad range of deadly skills, from car bombings and assassinations to tightly coordinated conventional attacks on police and military targets, the official said.

Once the insurgency ends, Islamic militants are likely to disperse as highly organized battle-hardened combatants capable of operating throughout the Arab-speaking world and in other regions including Europe.

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