""It
is a regime that exhausted the Americans in Iraq and caused the killing of 3,000
U.S. troops and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians as a result of its support to
al-Qaeda and the jihadists who used to come from all over the Arab world to
Damascus, where they got trained before heading to Iraq to die in suicide
attacks."" When Saudi propagandists write in Arabic, they are writing for Western audiences. This is why they are keen on translating their own words into English. (thanks Karim)