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| 70 Sudanese have joined ISIS in total: minister |
| 2015-10-13 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan's Interior Minister Ismat Abdul Rahman said Monday that 70 young Sudanese have joined ISIS since the jihadist organization's emergence, travelling to Syria and Libya. Several groups of students from Sudan -- some holding western passports -- are thought to have travelled to Syria via ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to join ISIS, but this is the first time Khartoum has given a figure. "The total of those who have left the country to join the Daesh [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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... ] organization has reached 70 young men and women," Abdul Rahman said at a news conference, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. The minister played down the significance of the figure, saying it was smaller than the number of recruits from other countries. Abdul Rahman said that Khartoum, in coordination with the Turkish government, had been able to prevent several "cases from joining Daesh." Sudan's security apparatus and education services were also running awareness campaigns to prevent young Sudanese from joining ISIS, he said. Abdul Rahman said there were now "new, more stringent regulations related to granting exit visas and it has become more difficult to obtain entry visas to those countries," without elaborating further. |
| Posted by:Fred |