Yellow Dog

This must be what Bush means by the "catastrophic success" in Iraq:

From CBS News:

"Radical youths from Europe and the Arab world are training at insurgent camps in Iraq, Europe's anti-terror chief said Tuesday, warning that instability there and elsewhere in the world is making "it easier for terrorists to hide and train.

De Vries said terrorist violence in Iraq could spread to the whole region if the U.S.-led coalition fails to put down the insurgency that's attracting Islamic radicals from outside Iraq.

'Al Qaeda has in a sense revamped itself so that it is no longer only an organization but it has simultaneously become a kind of movement inspiring individuals and loose small networks,' he said. 'So there has been, as is sometimes being said, a kind of franchising of the message of al Qaeda which makes it a more complex phenomenon' and more difficult to handle."

Not only were Iraq and the 9-11 attacks unrelated, but now there's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy in which Iraq is actually increasing al Qaeda recruitment. Somewhere, Osama bin Laden is proclaiming, "Mission Accomplished!"

CBS News | Iraq Called Terror Breeding Ground | December 16, 2004 08:00:19