UN: Foreign Fighters Joining Terror Groups On 'Unprecedented Scale'

[bemildred]

Source: AP

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new United Nations report says the world is facing a challenge of foreign fighters in terror groups on an "unprecedented scale," with about 15,000 in Syria and Iraq alone.

The report by a panel of experts monitoring al-Qaida and the Taliban, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, has been submitted to the U.N. Security Council.

The panel says fighters from more than 80 countries working with al-Qaida associates in Syria and Iraq "form the core of a new diaspora that may seed the threat for years to come," and that domestic terrorism could rise as fighters return to their home countries.

The report, issued Wednesday, adds that the increasingly sophisticated use of social media is giving the Islamic State group a "cosmopolitan" appearance.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/un-foreign-fighters_n_6081446.html

[flamingdem]

1. This could be dated information

After some 900 were killed in Kobani and many in some battles in Iraq I think recruitment might slow a bit .. Then again they offer decent salaries so it may take longer to slow but it will now the rose is off the bloom of easy living jihadi lives.

[grahamhgreen]

2. It's economic, isn't it? What's the pay rate?

[seveneyes]

3. as fighters return to their home countries

Only suicidal countries would allow these terrorists to return.

[Purveyor]

4. The 'western crusades' across the middle east is working out just swell, isn't it?

Hillary will 'fix it', indeed!

:sacrasm:

[Joe Shlabotnik]

10. The "We have to fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here" logic

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takes another bizarre turn. Now we have fight ourselves there.

[cosmicone]

5. The countries are being timid.

If anyone joins armed forces of an adversary, it is construed as treason and they are stripped of their citizenship.

I hope US, UK, France, Germany etc. strip these idiots of their citizenship and de facto sentence them to a life in a hell hole or death.

They should be shown no mercy.

[geek tragedy]

6. Don't let them leave Syria or Iraq. nt

[PeoViejo]

7. 15,000 Thugs have a Death Wish

Welcome to the Syria-Iraq Bombing Range.

[EX500rider]

9. Weather report:

[leftynyc]

8. If any try and come back to the US

they should be arrested upon exiting the airplane and tried for treason. No exceptions.