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Foreigners in Iraq say Koran requires fighting U.S.
But American leaders contend their numbers are few

Ramadi, Iraq -- In a rare interview with a foreign fighter battling U.S. troops in Iraq, a middle-class university student from Jordan described this week how he has spent months launching attacks on American soldiers, after being smuggled across the Jordanian border during his summer recess, and trained at a guerrilla camp in central Iraq.

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Suicide bombers

One martyr doesn't make a jihad

Nov 20th 2003 | BAGHDAD
From The Economist print edition

Declining demand for British suicide bombers

LAST month, a 22-year-old Yemeni asylum seeker in Sheffield said goodbye to his son and his pregnant British wife and went to Iraq to blow himself up. Jihadis trawling their websites have yet to locate which “car of death” Wail Abdelrahman was driving, but have informed his family and friends in Yemen that he received a martyr's burial.

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