This administration wants to have us all believe that the 'insurgents' are all 'foreign fighters. Bad bad 'al Qaedas' and they would LOVE Syrians in the mix now that it is obvious that they want an excuse to invade Syria.
However... as the WPO reports on the latest operation in Tall Afar:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
'"When the air and ground operation wound down in mid-September, nearly 200 insurgents had been killed and close to 1,000 detained, the military said at the time. But interrogations and other analyses carried out in recent weeks showed that none of those captured was from outside Iraq."
the article goes on:
"The relative importance of the foreign component of Iraq's two-year-old insurgency, estimated at between 4 and 10 percent of all guerrillas, has been a matter of growing debate in military and intelligence circles, U.S. and Iraqi officials and American commanders said. Top U.S. military officials here have long emphasized the influence of groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq, an insurgent network led by a Jordanian, Abu Musab Zarqawi. But analysts say the focus on foreign elements is also an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the insurgency in the eyes of Iraqis, by portraying it as terrorism foisted on the country by outsiders."
Unfortunately for Bush, Rumsfeld & Cheney who try to "re-write history" as they go along most of the insurgents are Iraqi's fighting occupiers in their hometown.