that was a quote from the chairman of joint chiefs of staff admiral michael mullen. retired air force maj matthew alexander led the interrogation team to track down the leader of al qaeda in iraq. here is what major alexander said and i quote. i listened time and time again to foreign fighters and sunnis, iraqis and many states the number one reason they decided to pick up arms and join al qaeda was the abuse at abu ghraib and author iced torture and abuse at guantanamo bay. it's no exaggeration to say at least half of our losses, at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come to the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse, and of quote. alberto, former navy general counsel, testified to the senate armed services committee about guantanamo and this is what he said. serving u.s. rank officers maintained the first and second identifiable causes of u.s. combat deaths in iraq as judged by their effectiveness recruiting insurgent fighters into the combat or respectively symbols of abu ghraib and guantanamo. so