Ignoring the reality that the US and Britian are foreign troops fighting in Iraq also, a lot can be deduced from the number of "detainees" the Coalition has in the country.

Of 24,500, so large because the US "detains" every able-bodied male of a certain age in these operations, "280 are from countries other than Iraq. Of those, 55 are identified as Egyptian, 53 as Syrian, 37 as Saudi, 28 as Jordanian and 24 as Sudanese."

That's about 1.1% of the detainees. It's about 0.1% of the foreign coalition forces and mercenaries in the country. Would seem that Bush has made much ado about nothing, again.

The article goes on to say that foreigners are sometimes difficult to identify. Seems reasonable, though, that if there were significant numbers it would show up.

Arf