Remember all those foriegn fighters in Iraq? Bush lie 46 hits the shitter;

U.S. Officers in Iraq Find Few Signs of Infiltration by Foreign Fighters

By JOEL BRINKLEY

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/international/middleeast/19IRAQ.html?hp



During a briefing on Monday for a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, he said that since May, his men had captured perhaps 20 foreign fighters trying to slip into the country from those three countries.

During a period in which border patrols have been intensified and new technology is being, that number suggests only modest foreign incursions into Iraq, in contrast to estimates by the Bush administration.

In Washington late last month, officials estimated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq at 1,000 to 3,000, and the White House has been suggesting that foreign fighters are continuing to enter the country and are behind many of the attacks, linking the war

in Iraq to the global campaign against terror.