This particular Arab that you quote are apparently engaged in a resistance fight in Afghanistan. One of the reasons he is there, is that US troops are there, just as they are in Iraq. He can have all sorts of motivations for wanting to attack US troops. One of the most enduring reasons is US support for Israeli oppression against the original inhabitants in Palestine, now living in tiny enclaves in Gaza and on the Wst Bank. I am intersting in knowing his nationality, we just hear that he is "egyptean", like we heard that Al-Zarqawi were Jordanian. The latter came -- as the name implies -- from Zarqa, which is Jordans second biggest City, and which saw its population explode in June 1967 when 250.000 Palestinians and their leadership with Arafat at the Helm, fled the advancing Israelis. Many of them settled in Zarqa, and according to many reports A-Zarqawi was indeed of Palestinian descent. If not a Palesinian (like more than 50 % af Jordanians are) then sure he would have received first hand accounts about Palestinians plight in the Occupied areas, and from this have settled his motivation of attacking Israels only ally on the face of the Earth when he went out to Iraq and decided to organise attacks -- attacks which he was unable to conduct against the Israelis, but here in Iraq there only ally was driving convoys up and down the country. Since the attack on Taliban's stronghold in South Afghanistan was initiated by the Americans in 2005 (from 2006 under the command of NATO but today agaisn under the firm control of the US due to their huge number of troops) this theatre of war has attracted many more Arabs keen to attack The US for different reasons. Some with affiliations to Palestine and some unsatisfied with US presence in Iraq. These 2 are the over-riding motivations, and with now 2 theatres of war, these resistance fighters are able to turn up or down for the attrocities where they choose. When the Americans leave Iraq, we will peobably see an upsurge of violence in this theatre.

It is true that US troops continued stay on holy Saudi soil following The Gulf War in 1991, also provide some motivation to attack US troops in -- say -- afghanistan. King Fahd had been promised that they would be withdrawn immediately after the war. The guy who was responsibly for their continued stay was the superzionist and -lobbyist Martin Indyk -- an Australian jew, and US-citizen from 1993,-- later US ambassador to Israel -- so you see that Israel has a hand in all 3 motivations.