QUOTE(MilitaryMadness @ Feb 14 2015, 12:11 PM)
US intelligence services estimate IS and other Islamist groups has recruited 20,000 foreign fighters, including westerners

IS fighters in digital desert camouflage uniforms during the execution of Jordanian pilot Ali Al-Kasasbeh
US intelligence services estimated that Islamic State and other Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq has recruited at least 20,000 foreign fighters, including 3,500 westerners and 150 US citizens. This includes those who have intercepted or failed to actually get into Syria and Iraq. The actual status of the foreign fighters in Syria are currently unknown, it is probably some are already killed in the battles there, but intelligence agencies cannot absolutely confirm their status. It is feared some have falsified their deaths and are using 'clean' identities to return to their home countries for bombings and terror campaigns.
"This is a tremendous estimate" said a US intelligence official, adding "The number of foreign fighters in this conflict is greater than 1980s Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Somalia all put together"
the way they wear the uniform, the way they hold the gun, makes me very skeptical if they really is IS/ISIL, i mean, the real Islamic rebel group in syriaIS fighters in digital desert camouflage uniforms during the execution of Jordanian pilot Ali Al-Kasasbeh
US intelligence services estimated that Islamic State and other Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq has recruited at least 20,000 foreign fighters, including 3,500 westerners and 150 US citizens. This includes those who have intercepted or failed to actually get into Syria and Iraq. The actual status of the foreign fighters in Syria are currently unknown, it is probably some are already killed in the battles there, but intelligence agencies cannot absolutely confirm their status. It is feared some have falsified their deaths and are using 'clean' identities to return to their home countries for bombings and terror campaigns.
"This is a tremendous estimate" said a US intelligence official, adding "The number of foreign fighters in this conflict is greater than 1980s Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Somalia all put together"
Feb 14 2015, 10:08 PM

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