Article: U.S., Civilian Accounts Differ As to Number of Muslim Volunteers in Iraq.

By Juan O. Tamayo, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 22--BAGHDAD, Iraq--U.S. Marines have said they battled more than 200 fanatical foreign Muslims near Baghdad's Abu Hanifa mosque on the day that Saddam Hussein's regime fell. A neighbor says there were only eight foreign fighters.

The differing accounts underscore the mystery that surrounds the number of Muslim volunteers who rushed to Iraq last month to launch a new Afghanistan-like "holy war" on U.S. troops.

If they numbered 5,000, as Saddam's government asserted and one Marine intelligence officer believes, they could bedevil occupation forces for months with ...

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