Terrorists are indeed streaming from a breeding ground in the Near East. Iran:

Fighting in Samarra has left over 150 rebels and one U.S. soldier dead. On Sunday, residents said they heard random explosions as U.S. and Iraqi forces hunted for insurgent holdouts.

Iraqi police have been patrolling the city, while U.S. troops and Iraqi Forces search houses for rebels and weapons caches. Military sources also confirmed that following extensive clashes between U.S. troops and the rebel militia, a large number of armed agents working for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) were arrested. Naqib’s comments came after U.S. forces separately confirmed the arrests of 80 Iranian fighters who had posed as regular Iraqis.

Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Sabah Kazem also recently confirmed that the flow of Iranian arms and agents into Iraq was continuing. "The Iranian regime's declared policy contradicts the events that are taking place,” he said.

Press agencies may want to rethink referring to these murderers as "Iraqi insurgents." At some time in the future, even the left's insistence to the contrary will be drowned out by the obvious. It can't come too soon: As Michael Ledeen maintains, defeating terror depends on the fall of theocratic Iran.

ALSO: L. Paul Bremer taken out of context. Wretchard obliges.

THEY COME FROM HERE, THEY COME FROM THERE: Al Qaeda terrorists come from North Africa. Via Syria. Report here.