ISIS Has an Army of 200,000 and Growing

Militant Islamist fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province

Islamic militants have army of 200,000, claims senior Kurdish leader, By Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, November 16, 2014.

The Islamic State (Isis) has recruited an army hundreds of thousands strong, far larger than previous estimates by the CIA, according to a senior Kurdish leader. He said the ability of Isis to attack on many widely separated fronts in Iraq and Syria at the same time shows that the number of militant fighters is at least 200,000, seven or eight times bigger than foreign in intelligence estimates of up to 31,500 men.

Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of the Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said in an exclusive interview with The Independent on Sunday that “I am talking about hundreds of thousands of fighters because they are able to mobilise Arab young men in the territory they have taken.”

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Marsha Gill
Marsha Gill
10 years ago

That’s a lot of psychopathic murderers! When you raise a child from birth to hate then you get psychopaths for adults. When in numbers they are a self ruling, group defending of treacherous murderers who think like the rest of the psychos.

James Sundquist
10 years ago

This why our DVD:
GLOBAL CONSPIRACY TO STEAL THE LAND OF ISRAEL
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Shalom,
James Sundquist