CNN: The names: Who has been recruited to ISIS from the West
(CNN)More than 20,000 foreigners have flocked to fight for ISIS, the radical Sunni group that controls portions of Iraq and Syria.
They hail from 90 countries, and an estimated 3,400 fighters come from Western states, according to Nicholas Rasmussen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Those are the numbers -- estimates, of course.
But who is actually going? What are their names? What do they look like, where are they from and -- perhaps most importantly -- why are they going?
These are some of the individuals we know have traveled or tried to join ISIS.
WNU Editor: And it's growth continues .... The Islamic State: The beast keeps growing (USA Today).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXsgqrFlOA
Still can't figure out
why so many Tunisians
want to join ISIS.
ofs
Ofs,
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/tr/security/2014/07/tunisia-jihadists-welcome-isis-caliphate-officials-fears.html
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/world/africa/new-freedoms-in-tunisia-drive-support-for-isis.html?referrer=
Thanks. Those articles
make a lot of sense. My
guess is that the young
men that look to Daesh
as their great hope will
some day be greatly dis-
appointed when the Golden
Age doesn't ever happen and
those at the top start
living the life of luxury.
The rise and fall of the
Soviet Union may provide
some insights to the
pattern that will recur
with Daesh.
ofs
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