Jayson over at polipundit.com nailed this one. If they are searching the EU they must be running out of suckers in Iraq. Sound about right to me. There will always be a couple ready to die on a muslim holiday :(
Gen. Abizaid said, that in the recent car bombing, they found the "suicide bomber" chained to the car.
FoxNews had the clip, but I didn't see it or read about it anywhere else.
And it looks like they are not getting a lot of volunteers from Europe either:
"Murck said he had no solid numbers for how many people might have gone from Germany to fight in Iraq, but added that it did not appear to be many.
"If you look at Hamburg, you can count them on two hands — those who have gone or who tried to go," he said.
I think the (typical and tired MSM) spin that recruiting is more successful in Europe because of Iraq is pure b.s. Everything I've read is that the non-Iraqi insurgents are almost entirely from neighboring countries. Fighting the U.S. ain't nothing -- in terms of rewards and, especially, of punishments -- like fighting the Russians (low morale, inept, ill equipped) or the Bosnian Serbs (corrupt, thuggish, ill disciplined). In most places where your itinerant islamists go jihading they can preen and posture as heroes, and much of the population treats them as such, or did in recent years. That ain't the case in Iraq. Their support is rapidly evaporating even in Sunni regions since the transfer of sovereignty and then the elections. Arab media is increasingly turning against them as well. Young men, particularly from tribalistic or "honor" cultures like those associated with Islam, won't make sacrifices if they can't be heroes, and perceived as such.
I'm no expert in any sense, but for whatever it's worth a year ago I would have guessed it would take 5 to 10 years to completely defeat the Iraqi insurgency. Now I'd guess 2 or 3 max. I'd also bet there will henceforth be a steady decline in insurgent/terrorist activity, with few if any significant rallies.
Again, I'm no expert, but I've found in pretty safe to far to assume the opposite of what the MSM predicts.