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Over 50,000 ISIL terrorists fight in Syria
[Iran Press TV] The number of ISIL Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... forces of Evil fighting against the Syrian government amounts to more than 50,000, says a UK-based NGO. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that the holy warriors managed to recruit 6,000 forces of Evil in the past month alone. The observatory's director, Rami Abdel Rahman, said there were at least 20,000 non-Syrians among the terrorists. "July saw the largest recruitment since the group appeared in Syria in 2013, with more than 6,000 new fighters," said the head of the group, which opposes the Syrian government. The observatory also said there were 1,000 foreign forces of Evil among the raw recruits mostly from Chechnya, Europe, Arab countries, and China. Most of the forces of Evil had entered via Turkey, Abdel Rahman said, adding that other recruits joined the ISIL from foreign-backed opposition groups, including 200 from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front that initially cooperated with ISIL. The ISIL holy warriors currently control a swathe of eastern Syria and western Iraq. Posted by: Fred 2014-08-20 |
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