British Memo Reveals Al Qaeda Recruits

Another British dossier; another ludicrously drawn conclusion. I'm skeptical of any leaked classified British dossier, but a newly leaked document shows that up to 3,000 British-based young Muslims have passed through Bin Laden's camps and may be part of Al Qaeda.

The unsurprising, but very weak argument, according to the London Times, is that "The Iraq war is identified by the dossier as a key cause of young Britons turning to terrorism."

“The perception is that passive ‘oppression’, as demonstrated in British foreign policy, eg non-action on Kashmir and Chechnya, has given way to ‘active oppression’. The war on terror, and in Iraq and Afghanistan, are all seen by a section of British Muslims as having been acts against Islam.”

The Times effort to single out the Iraq War in the dossier as a recruiting agent apart from our actions in the rest of the War on Terror is false. The memo simply reveals that many Muslims think that everything the U.S. does is wrong, not simply the Iraq War.

Unfortunately, none of this will matter to the media as they start highlighting this memo. Ceci Connelly on FoxNews this morning already mentioned it.