Half Of ISIS, Al-Qaida European Fighters From ... France
April 20, 2015 |
A French parliamentary investigation found almost half of all the Europeans fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria are from France, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
A French parliamentary investigation found almost half of all the Europeans fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria are from France, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The study reinforces a French domestic intelligence services report that is monitoring more than 3,000 people suspected of being involved in Syrian networks from France, a 24 percent increase since last November.
The French finding coincides with a new report from European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova that some 6,000 Europeans have joined ISIS.
“At the European level, we estimate that 5,000 to 6,000 individuals have left for Syria,” Jourova told the French newspaper Le Figaro. “At the time of the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen,” she said, “we decided not to allow ourselves to be guided by fear.”
Jourova said the EU wants to prevent the flow and is examining the reasons Europeans join jihadist groups, apart from religious affiliation.
She said that British research has pointed to “a desire for adventure, boredom, dissatisfaction with their situation in life or a lack of prospects” as reasons young people leave their families and go to Syria.
Last month, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere estimated there are some 650 German nationals who have joined ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
After France, the largest number of ISIS recruits come from Germany and Britain, according to the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence.
The German domestic intelligence service claims there are an estimated 30 different Islamist groups in the country.
European security services fear the fighters will return to their respective countries to launch attacks.
Such attacks already have occurred.
France, which has the highest concentration of Muslims throughout Europe, was the scene last January of a jihadist attack by three terrorists from ISIS and Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish delicatessen in Paris.
The attack killed 12 people before the attackers themselves were killed.
The alarm over the growing number of European recruits follows a report by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence saying that ISIS and the al-Qaida-affiliated front Jabhat al-Nusra have mobilized more than 20,000 foreign fighters not only from Europe and the United States but from 50 different nations.
The Middle East, which has seen more than 11,000 recruits, remains the dominant source of foreign fighters, with another 3,000 from countries of the former Soviet Union.
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