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Article: Iraq: spinning off Arab terrorists? Counterterror experts from 50 countries met in Saudi Arabia to discuss how to combat emerging threats.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 8, 2005
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Byline: Faiza Saleh Ambah Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA -- The lessons of Afghanistan are not lost on counterterrorism experts and Arab government officials here.
As the insurgency continues in Iraq, the risk is that the country becomes a regional training ground for terrorists - as Afghanistan was in the 1990s - creating newly radicalized and experienced jihadis who return home to cause trouble in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere.
In fact, there's evidence it's already happened in Kuwait. In the past month, the tiny Gulf state has been rocked by a series of shootouts with Muslim militants, some of whom ...