Two new studies, one by the Saudi government and one by an Israeli think tank, which "painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States" have found that most foreign fighters in Iraq were not terrorists before the Iraq war, but were "radicalized by the war itself."

Thus begins Studies: War radicalized most foreign fighters in Iraq , Tom Regan's fairly damning article about how recent studies show that the war in Irag has not reduced terrorism (as its supporters have claimed), but has actually increased terrorism (as those who pay attention to the world community have been saying for years).

The article shows how that is not merely an idle claim. It is, instead, a conclusion derived from studies done in two different countries. And those studies, themselves, were created from interviews conducted with hundreds of foreigners fighters that travelled to Iraq to fight the US - and who had been captured by US-friendly forces.

-Thom