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The BBC has a good article about the composition of the insurgency.
The following is a quote from that article:
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4268904.stm
I stated 5%, some estimates put it between 5 and 10 percent.
The following is a quote from that article:
US and Iraqi government sources say al-Qaeda has recruited foreign fighters for its operations in Iraq. A September 2005 report released by US think-tank, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said foreign volunteers account at most for 10% - some 3,000 fighters - of the insurgency, the remainder being Iraqi Sunni Arabs.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4268904.stm
I stated 5%, some estimates put it between 5 and 10 percent.