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| EU Says 3,000 European Jihadis now in Syria, Iraq |
| 2014-09-24 |
| [AnNahar] The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has surged to about 3,000 from 2,000 only months ago, the EU counter-terrorism chief said Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with AFP, Gilles de Kerchove said the flow of Europeans may have been boosted by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... krazed killer group's declaration in June of a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq. "My own assessment is that we're about 3,000," he said when asked how many European fighters have flocked to the Islamist cause in Syria and Iraq. "The flow has not been dried up and therefore possibly the proclamation of the caliphate has had some impact," de Kerchove said. His comments came hours after the United States and its Arab allies unleashed deadly strikes from land and sea on jihadists in Syria, opening a new front in the battle against the Islamic State group. The European fighters, he said, come mainly from La Belle France, Britannia, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark but a few come from Spain, Italia, Ireland and now Austria. "Even a country like Austria I think has now imported muscle, which I was not aware of before," he added. The EU counter-terrorism coordinator nonetheless said he would check his figures with those of European security service chiefs in the next couple of weeks, saying their numbers may be more conservative. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I'm presum that by "Euros" the Artic is referring to the roughly 1000 French Citizens now on Jihad, to add besides to roughly 1000 Turks also on Jihad. The French in particular were singled out by the ISIS [video] as "spiteful" + "despicable". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-09-24 22:46 |