Are US PsyOps Behind Iraq Car Bombs?

This is interesting. From The Wire at AlterNet:

Cars Stolen In US Used For Suicide Bombings In Iraq...
Posted on October 5, 2005 at 12:34 PM.

The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.

The FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, Inspector John Lewis, said the investigation did not prove the vehicles were stolen specifically for car bombings in the Middle East, but there was evidence they were smuggled out of the US by organised criminal networks that included terrorists and insurgents.

Now why on earth would Iraqi insurgents bring in cars from the USA (of all places!)? It makes no sense at all.

If the report is true, it suggests that someone is taking US cars to Iraq in the hope that the cars can never be traced. The obvious motive is to ensure that the persons involved in procuring the cars can never be traced. But why would Iraqis, or even foreign nationalists in the Middle East, bring in cars from the USA? Surely they could get them cheaper and more easily from inside Iraq, or from lawless neighbours like Syria?

The only rational explanation I can see is that the persons involved in procuring these cars are Americans, which indicates that the USA is behind at least some of the car bombs in Iraq.

UPDATE: I have traced the story to the Boston Globe via the Sydney Morning Herald. The original story includes the following addendum:

The inquiry began after coalition troops raided a Falluja bomb factory last November and found a Texas-registered four-wheel-drive being prepared for a bombing mission. Investigators said there were several other cases where vehicles evidently stolen in the US wound up in Syria or other Middle Eastern countries and ultimately in the hands of Iraqi insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Investigators believed the cars were stolen by local car thieves in US cities, then smuggled to waiting ships at ports in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Houston, among other cities. Terrorism specialists said they believed Iraqi insurgents preferred American stolen cars because they tended to be larger, blended in more easily with US convoys, and were harder to identify as stolen.

Is it really so hard to find USA makes of car in the Middle East? And why does everything always seem to point back to Texas? Anyone?