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Berlin Says 60 Germans Have Died Fighting for IS
2014-11-24
[AnNahar] Some 60 Germans have been killed while fighting under the banner of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group in Syria and Iraq, the head of the German domestic intelligence service said Sunday.

"About 60 people from Germany have died or killed themselves, at least nine in suicide kabooms," Hans-George Maassen told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "That's a sad success for Islamist propaganda."

In all about 550 German nationals have joined the IS in the conflict zone, and of these 180 have returned to Germany, he said.
About 181 too many...
In mid-October, Germany announced new measures to prevent its citizens from traveling to join the jihadist cause in Iraq and Syria, including confiscating their identity papers.
We keep telling you that you're doing it wrong: let them leave, don't let them return. Give guns to the Kurds. Problems solved.
Posted by:trailing wife

#9  The Kurds have earned another airborne resupply.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-11-24 22:01  

#8  Let's hope you can use it again in January 2017... on Inauguration Day of a Republican President (preferably a smart one)
Posted by: European Conservative   2014-11-24 21:46  

#7  Thanks, EC. :-D

I still use the "Gott sei dank!" part a lot.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-24 20:21  

#6  Absolutely correct Barbara!
Posted by: European Conservative   2014-11-24 19:12  

#5  I don't think there's a direct translation of the idiom, Rambler, but "Gott sei Dank, dass wir den los sind!" should suffice. :-D

(I haven't lived in Germany since 1973, so I could be a little - or a lot - off.)
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-24 18:40  

#4  How do you say good riddance in German?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-11-24 09:11  

#3  Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
Or is it Operation Flypaper Mk II?
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-11-24 07:32  

#2  ISIS now recruiting. Embed operants who can report numbers, positions and inventories of munitions. Tag ALL existing Western recruits for interception upon return home. Not an enviable mission, but large numbers of these Jihadists should not be allowed to return home, or then the real fun will start.
Posted by: Incredulous   2014-11-24 04:16  

#1  Retaining citizens that have pledged to IS seems like a bad idea. Provide a van for their trip with a Khurdish driver. Everybody wins.
Posted by: Super Hose   2014-11-24 01:25  

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