A stream of jehadi volunteers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon and other countrieshave started moving into Iraq to join what is promised as the mother of all jehads against the USA. Before the occupation, there was no evidence of any links between the Saddam Hussein regime and Osama binLaden's Al Qaeda and International Islamic Front (IIF), despite apparently fabricated US evidence to thecontrary. After the occupation, there are increasing reports of attempts to bring the dregs of Al Qaedaand the IIF from Afghanistan and Pakistan and of Saddam Hussein's Army and Baath Party together for what isdescribed as a new jehad, the like of which the world has not seen before.