Pots and kettles

"BAGHDAD, Oct 20 (Reuters, by Claudia Parsons) - More than 300 foreign fighters have been captured in Iraq by U.S.-led [foreign] troops and Iraqi security forces since April and their nationalities include Israeli, Irish and British, a senior U.S. commander said on Thursday. Most came from other Arab states, however, Major General Rick Lynch said....

"Terrorists and foreign fighters" were responsible for some of the worst insurgent attacks, such as suicide car bombings, Lynch said. [Other foreign fighters were believed responsible for the killing of other civilians, but those figures were not discussed.] But he said U.S.-led [foreign] forces had foiled several attacks by arresting or killing many of them in recent months. He told a news briefing 376 foreign fighters had been captured this year, of whom 311 were detained since the start of April. No comparable figures for the total number of guerrilla suspects captured were available, although some 12,000 are currently held in jail, most of those Iraqis.

"The countries of origin most represented were Egypt (78), Syria (66), Sudan (41) and Saudi Arabia (32). The list included several other Middle Eastern countries and a number of European states such as France (1) and Denmark (1) as well as two Indians and an American. Lynch declined to give any further details about the one Israeli on the list, or the suspect from Ireland and two from Britain."