They are being interrogated to determine how many are foreign fighters from nations like Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
But when the day ended, with the semifinals set in 12 weight classes, the talk was no longer of the rivalry between the United States and Cuba, it was about the widespread improvement in fighters from nations that had once fought under one federation.
Just as one nation's terrorist is another nation's freedom fighter, one state's just war is bound to be another state's unjust war.
"Just as one nation's terrorist is another nation's freedom fighter, one state's just war is bound to be another state's unjust war," Mr. Weisbord wrote recently in an article explaining some complexities of defining aggression.
His success saw him become the first home nations fighter ever to defend a Commonwealth title.
Saudis brought more money per person than fighters from other nations, the American officials said.
General Ryan said the need for new weapons like the Air Force's F-22 fighter meant the nation could no longer defer significant spending increases.
The Soufan Group, a New York-based intelligence outfit, reckons that by the end of May as many as 12,000 fighters from 81 nations had joined the fray, among them some 3,000 from the West (see chart).
But the Taliban have placed their greatest trust in the Afghan Arabs, the foreign fighters from Islamic nations who first began gathering in the 1980's to help repel the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan, according to American and Pakistani officials.
Coalition forces now serving in Iraq are confronting the terrorists and foreign fighters so peaceful nations around the world will never have to face them within our own borders.
A quarter-century ago, Maulavi Haqqani was a favorite of American and Pakistani intelligence agencies and of wealthy Arab benefactors because of his effectiveness in organizing mujahedeen fighters from Afghanistan, Arab nations and other Muslim regions to attack the Soviet forces that had occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s.
