Foreign fighters now reviled by Fallujah residents, page 1

Well it seems that the theories that the 'iraqi resistance' was not Iraqi after all, or at least a good portion of it. The terror war moved to Iraq and it is the battleground in this war on terror.

Foreign fighters now reviled by Fallujah residents

SAKHLAWIYA, Iraq - The fighters came to Fallujah last year with piles of cash, strange accents and a militant vision of Islam that was at once foreign and fearsome to residents emerging from nearly 30 years of Saddam Hussein's secular regime.

Yet out of custom and necessity, tribal locals offered their Arab guests sanctuary and were repaid with promises to help keep American forces out of the town. This week, with U.S. troops battling their way through the Sunni Muslim stronghold, several Fallujah residents said it had been a grave mistake to trust the foreigners who turned their humble stand against foreign occupation into a sophisticated terror campaign.

Foreign fighters now reviled by Fallujah residents