Beginning in March, the Arab media published stories of young Arabs traveling to Iraq to carry out Jihad against the U.S. They came from various Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and from Afghanistan as well. A report in the Lebanese daily Al-Nahar told of 36 Islamists (Lebanese, Palestinians, Egyptians, and Syrians) receiving visas from the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut to volunteer as martyrs.(1) Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouq Al-Shar', stated that his country would not stop volunteers going to Iraq via Syria,(2) while the Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Nayef bin Abd Al-Aziz claimed that there was no evidence of Saudis volunteering in droves for Jihad in Iraq.