Posted on 10/04/2007 12:40:41 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
The US military claimed on Thursday that American and Iraqi forces had arrested an alleged financier for al-Qaeda who had received $100m from donors outside Iraq to fund insurgent operations.
Military officials have long attributed al-Qaeda's expansion in Iraq to its access to external finance, but rarely release figures that give insight into the scale of the operation that they say that they are facing.
The $100m (€71m, £50m) sum - far greater than amounts usually associated with Sunni insurgents - had been received over the summer from "terrorist supporters who cross the Iraq border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt", according to a statement.
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Did they capture his money?
What the hell kind of a way is this to start a story? It should be written as "reported", not "claimed". You use the word "claimed" when you are encouraging your audience to doubt the story, and be skeptical of the source. This is pathetic.
George Soros? Medea Benjamin? Howard Hsu?
Shop at any Muslim owned stores in the U.S. and watch the money that does not go to Uncle Sam, but instead heads overseas to fund the Islamic war on us.
The US military claimed...
What the hell kind of a way is this to start a story? It should be written as "reported", not "claimed". You use the word "claimed" when you are encouraging your audience to doubt the story, and be skeptical of the source. This is pathetic.
But...but...but they don't ALWAYS use "claimed". Ergo: "The U. S. military in Iraq ASSERTED today..."
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