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| Over 2,000 Saudi jihadists said fighting abroad |
| 2016-12-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Kingdom’s interior ministry says 70% have joined Islamic State in Syria, with others in Yemen, Afganistan, Pakistain, Iraq. More than 2,000 Saudis are fighting abroad with jihadist groups, with over 70 percent of them in Syria, the kingdom’s interior ministry was reported as saying Monday. "The number of Saudis proven to be in conflict areas is 2,093," interior ministry front man General Mansour al-Turki told daily newspaper al-Hayat. He said that 1,540 of them were in Syria, where jihadists have flocked since the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group seized control of vast areas in mid-2014. Another 147 were in Yemen, which is the base of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , considered by Washington as the most dangerous affiliate of the global terror network. Another 31 were believed to be in Afghanistan or Pakistain, Turki said. Only five were believed to be in neighboring Iraq, where IS also seized significant territory in 2014. Turki said 73 Saudis had also been detained abroad "on charges related to acts of terrorism." |
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