Commander of the ground forces in Iraq “General Ricardo Sanchez said in a July [27] 2003 interview with CNN that foreign fighters were entering Iraq ‘from various places. This is what I would call a terrorist magnet, where America, being present here in Iraq, creates a target of opportunity, if you will. But this is exactly where we want to fight them. We want to fight them here. We prepared for them, and this will prevent the American people from having to go through their attacks back in the United States.’ ”
– Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 100