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Tentacles of terror: Chilling map shows the 31,000 mercenary 'gun for hire' jihadis from 86 countries who left their homes to join ISIS....
By Jay Akbar For Mailonline13:37 16 Dec 2015, updated 14:04 17 Dec 2015
ISIS and other extremist groups on the battlefield has doubled to more than 30,000 in the last 18 months, a new report has revealed.
It found fanatics from all corners of the globe including western Europe, Asia and Russia and parts of north Africa are heading to Iraq and Syria in greater numbers than ever before.
The well trained, battle hardened returnees are capable of orchestrating deadly lone wolf attacks such as the one that devastated Paris attacks, respected terror analysts told MailOnline.
Convergence: More than 31,000 foreign fighters have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight with ISIS, a disturbing new report has revealed
Home grown jihadis: The 31,000 fanatics from all over the world who have travelled to Syria and Iraq are capable of returning home to carry out shocking lone wolf attacks, terror experts told MailOnline (file photo of ISIS fighters)
New figures show 31,000 fighters from 86 countries have travelled to join ISIS in the Middle East - up from just 12,000 last year, according to the anti terror think tank Soufan Group, which advises governments on terror.
From the 31,000 who travel to the Middle East, up to 30 per cent could return to their home countries to carry out terror attacks, the report says.
All nine of the Islamic militants behind last month's Paris terror attacks had spent time at training camps in Syria before returning back to France and Belgium to commit mass murder.
U.S. based terror expert Peter Chalk, of respected anti-terror think tank RAND, told MailOnline disenfranchised young men who feel marginalised at home leave behind their families in search of adventure and the lure of money and women.
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'ISIS has also devoted a lot of attention to recruiting women, exhorting females to fulfill their religious duty to the caliphate by being mothers and helping to populate a future Islamic State in the Middle East.
'This message has clearly resonated, both in the Arab world as well as wider a field in central, south east Asia and the West.'
Fighters are paid with funds raised from the sale of Syria's oil, the militant group's main resource.
Last summer ISIS announced a religous tethe known as zakat - or charitable donation - to keep its economy churning and pay those travelling to Syria to fight.
Escape to terror: Every region has seen a rise in foreign fighters leaving to fight in the Middle East, but nowhere more so than Russia and the former Soviet States
Lone wolf attacks: The report claimed as many as a third of foreign fighters could return home and terror experts claim they could carry out terror attacks such as the one that devastated Paris (pictured, the massacre inside the Bataclan theatre)
Shooting: U.S. based terror expert Peter Chalk said those returning raise the threat of radicalisation, adding: 'Shootings in the U.S. (pictured, the terrorists' car after a police shootout) appear to have stemmed from a couple who were driven to terrorism through exposure to ISIS propaganda'
While ISIS brainwash people into thinking they are fighting for Islam, those who travel to join them are nothing more than mercenary 'guns for hire', said Russian Defence Ministry deputy head, Anatoly Antonov.
He said last month: 'Today some 25,000 to 30,000 foreign terrorist "mercenaries" are fighting for ISIS, including those from the Pacific Rim countries and, unfortunately, Russia too.
'Should they return home, carrying the potential for violence and extremism, they will be preaching radical ideas in our countries or will organize subversive activities,'
Every region has seen a rise in brainwashed militants but none more than Russia where 7,000 fighters have left this year, up from 800 in 2014.
One of those brainwashed jihadis beheaded a suspected Russian spy on camera in an ISIS execution video released last month.
Russian born executioner Anatoly Zemlyanka, 28, who was branded 'Jihad Vlad', cut off the unarmed man's head before waging war on Russia for pummelling Syria with airstrikes.
The Balkans, traditionally home to a 'small but sizeable population of violent Islamist extremists', has also seen a rapid rise, with 800 fighters from Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo or Macedonia in Syria.
Of the 5,000 to leave Europe for Syria, 3,695 come from four countries - the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.
Broken down, around 1,700 are from France, 760 from the UK, another 760 from Germany and 470 from Belgium.
Kuwait born British extremist Mohamed Emwazi, known as the ISIS executioner Jihadi John, left his home in Queen's Park, west London for Syria in 2012.
Meanwhile mother-of two-Sally Jones, dubbed 'Mrs Terror' from Kent, who wants to be Europe's first female suicide bomber, is thought to be alive and hiding out in Syria together with Nasser Muthana, from Cardiff, and Aqsa Mahmood, from Glasgow.
Fanatics: While the UK's most infamous foreign fighter Jihadi John (right) was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Cardiff Jihadi Nasser Muthana (left) and mother of two Sally Jones (centre) are still thought to be alive
Fanatics: While the UK's most infamous foreign fighter Jihadi John (right) was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Cardiff Jihadi Nasser Muthana (left) and mother of two Sally Jones (centre) are still thought to be alive
Clustered: In its report, the Soufan Group found that 3,695 of the 5,000 foreign fighters to leave western Europe are from just four countries - the UK, France, Belgium and Germany
Home grown: Russian born executioner Anatoly Zemlyanka (pictured) who was branded 'Jihad Vlad', cut off a suspected Russian spy's head in a gruesome ISIS execution video
Soufan Group's report claims ISIS recruits African immigrants in France and Belgium with false promises of 'belonging, purpose and respect'.
Data from the Horn of Africa is more difficult to obtain but around 70 fighters from Somalia, home to al Qaeda affiliated al Shabaab, are thought to be fighting in Syria.
Around 900 fanatics from Asia including Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia are now thought to have travelled to Syria and Iraq.
In August, ISIS issued a rallying cry to the Muslims of Indonesia and the Far East by sharing a picture of a baby lying next to an AK47 and a hand grenade. A note beside it read: 'Uncles and aunts come and fight in Syria for jihad wherever you are.'
Despite the rise in foreign fighters from Europe, the flow of people from the Americas 'has remained relatively stable', the report said.
FBI Director James Comey said only 150 people from U.S. had successfully gone to Syria, with 100 being prevented from going.
The Canadian authorities said 130 had gone to Syria and just a handful from South America.
The report claimed most fanatics leave for adventure, power and a sense of belonging in the Middle East.
Concentrated: The report also identified hotbeds of extremism, including Bizerte and Ben Gardane in Tunisia, which has contributed more foreign fighters to ISIS than any other country
Maniacal: ISIS fighter Seifiddine Rezgui (pictured) killed 39 holidaymakers in the resort town of Sousse in June. He left Tunisia and trained at an ISIS run terror camp in Libya before the attack
Those who return not only carry out attacks themselves, but radicalise and train other would be jihadis, Chalk told MailOnline.
He added: 'These could eventuate as both lone wolf strikes as well as more coordinated attacks from structured cells, as appears to have been the case in Paris.'
He also said the danger of radicalisation is heightened even further by ISIS propaganda, adding: 'The issue of self-radicalisation also looms large... The recent shootings in the US [San Bernandino, California] appear to have stemmed from a couple who were driven to terrorism through exposure to ISIS propaganda they accessed through the Internet.'
The report shows how ISIS has corrupted hearts and minds in every corner of the globe, which has in turn created hotbeds of extremism.
ISIS recruiters have targeted the Belgian region of Molenbeek, home of Paris terror attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, to the tiny Norwegian district of Lisleby home to 6,000 people where eight people have left for Syria.
Molenbeek is dubbed the 'jihadi capital of Europe' because it is believed to be a hotbed of terrorist activity.
Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon confirmed the majority of the country's foreign fighters came from Brussels - and particularly from Molenbeek.
Others ares of concentrated fanaticism included Bizerte and Ben Gardane in Tunisia, which has contributed more foreign fighters to ISIS than any other country, Derna in Libya and the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia.
Vengeance: Around 250 north American fanatics are thought to be in Iraq and Syria. In October, a masked jihadi (pictured) with an American accent killed four Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in 'revenge' for a raid by US special forces that killed 20 terrorists
Cubs: ISIS released a propaganda video in March which featured young Malaysian boys brandishing weapons in front of its black flag
The report added: 'The existence of these hotbeds results from the personal nature of recruitment. Joining the Islamic State is not a rational act so much as an emotional one.
'Where one joins, another is more likely to follow. Areas where there are close-knit groups of susceptible youth, often lacking a sense of purpose or belonging outside their own circle, have proved to generate a momentum of recruitment that spreads through personal contacts from group to group.'
'One thing this tells me is that the West is losing - and losing badly - the battle of the narrative against Salafist jihadist ideology,' Colin Clarke also from RAND told MailOnline.
He added: 'Western countries dedicate so much money and resources to hard power and kinetics and not enough on the 'soft side' of counter terrorism.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...in-ISIS-return-carry-Paris-style-attacks.html
Tentacles of terror: Chilling map shows the 31,000 mercenary 'gun for hire' jihadis from 86 countries who left their homes to join ISIS....
By Jay Akbar For Mailonline13:37 16 Dec 2015, updated 14:04 17 Dec 2015
ISIS and other extremist groups on the battlefield has doubled to more than 30,000 in the last 18 months, a new report has revealed.
It found fanatics from all corners of the globe including western Europe, Asia and Russia and parts of north Africa are heading to Iraq and Syria in greater numbers than ever before.
The well trained, battle hardened returnees are capable of orchestrating deadly lone wolf attacks such as the one that devastated Paris attacks, respected terror analysts told MailOnline.
Convergence: More than 31,000 foreign fighters have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight with ISIS, a disturbing new report has revealed
Home grown jihadis: The 31,000 fanatics from all over the world who have travelled to Syria and Iraq are capable of returning home to carry out shocking lone wolf attacks, terror experts told MailOnline (file photo of ISIS fighters)
New figures show 31,000 fighters from 86 countries have travelled to join ISIS in the Middle East - up from just 12,000 last year, according to the anti terror think tank Soufan Group, which advises governments on terror.
From the 31,000 who travel to the Middle East, up to 30 per cent could return to their home countries to carry out terror attacks, the report says.
All nine of the Islamic militants behind last month's Paris terror attacks had spent time at training camps in Syria before returning back to France and Belgium to commit mass murder.
U.S. based terror expert Peter Chalk, of respected anti-terror think tank RAND, told MailOnline disenfranchised young men who feel marginalised at home leave behind their families in search of adventure and the lure of money and women.
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'ISIS has also devoted a lot of attention to recruiting women, exhorting females to fulfill their religious duty to the caliphate by being mothers and helping to populate a future Islamic State in the Middle East.
'This message has clearly resonated, both in the Arab world as well as wider a field in central, south east Asia and the West.'
Fighters are paid with funds raised from the sale of Syria's oil, the militant group's main resource.
Last summer ISIS announced a religous tethe known as zakat - or charitable donation - to keep its economy churning and pay those travelling to Syria to fight.
Escape to terror: Every region has seen a rise in foreign fighters leaving to fight in the Middle East, but nowhere more so than Russia and the former Soviet States
Lone wolf attacks: The report claimed as many as a third of foreign fighters could return home and terror experts claim they could carry out terror attacks such as the one that devastated Paris (pictured, the massacre inside the Bataclan theatre)
Shooting: U.S. based terror expert Peter Chalk said those returning raise the threat of radicalisation, adding: 'Shootings in the U.S. (pictured, the terrorists' car after a police shootout) appear to have stemmed from a couple who were driven to terrorism through exposure to ISIS propaganda'
While ISIS brainwash people into thinking they are fighting for Islam, those who travel to join them are nothing more than mercenary 'guns for hire', said Russian Defence Ministry deputy head, Anatoly Antonov.
He said last month: 'Today some 25,000 to 30,000 foreign terrorist "mercenaries" are fighting for ISIS, including those from the Pacific Rim countries and, unfortunately, Russia too.
'Should they return home, carrying the potential for violence and extremism, they will be preaching radical ideas in our countries or will organize subversive activities,'
Every region has seen a rise in brainwashed militants but none more than Russia where 7,000 fighters have left this year, up from 800 in 2014.
One of those brainwashed jihadis beheaded a suspected Russian spy on camera in an ISIS execution video released last month.
Russian born executioner Anatoly Zemlyanka, 28, who was branded 'Jihad Vlad', cut off the unarmed man's head before waging war on Russia for pummelling Syria with airstrikes.
The Balkans, traditionally home to a 'small but sizeable population of violent Islamist extremists', has also seen a rapid rise, with 800 fighters from Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo or Macedonia in Syria.
Of the 5,000 to leave Europe for Syria, 3,695 come from four countries - the UK, Germany, France and Belgium.
Broken down, around 1,700 are from France, 760 from the UK, another 760 from Germany and 470 from Belgium.
Kuwait born British extremist Mohamed Emwazi, known as the ISIS executioner Jihadi John, left his home in Queen's Park, west London for Syria in 2012.
Meanwhile mother-of two-Sally Jones, dubbed 'Mrs Terror' from Kent, who wants to be Europe's first female suicide bomber, is thought to be alive and hiding out in Syria together with Nasser Muthana, from Cardiff, and Aqsa Mahmood, from Glasgow.
Fanatics: While the UK's most infamous foreign fighter Jihadi John (right) was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Cardiff Jihadi Nasser Muthana (left) and mother of two Sally Jones (centre) are still thought to be alive
Fanatics: While the UK's most infamous foreign fighter Jihadi John (right) was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Cardiff Jihadi Nasser Muthana (left) and mother of two Sally Jones (centre) are still thought to be alive
Clustered: In its report, the Soufan Group found that 3,695 of the 5,000 foreign fighters to leave western Europe are from just four countries - the UK, France, Belgium and Germany
Home grown: Russian born executioner Anatoly Zemlyanka (pictured) who was branded 'Jihad Vlad', cut off a suspected Russian spy's head in a gruesome ISIS execution video
Soufan Group's report claims ISIS recruits African immigrants in France and Belgium with false promises of 'belonging, purpose and respect'.
Data from the Horn of Africa is more difficult to obtain but around 70 fighters from Somalia, home to al Qaeda affiliated al Shabaab, are thought to be fighting in Syria.
Around 900 fanatics from Asia including Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia are now thought to have travelled to Syria and Iraq.
In August, ISIS issued a rallying cry to the Muslims of Indonesia and the Far East by sharing a picture of a baby lying next to an AK47 and a hand grenade. A note beside it read: 'Uncles and aunts come and fight in Syria for jihad wherever you are.'
Despite the rise in foreign fighters from Europe, the flow of people from the Americas 'has remained relatively stable', the report said.
FBI Director James Comey said only 150 people from U.S. had successfully gone to Syria, with 100 being prevented from going.
The Canadian authorities said 130 had gone to Syria and just a handful from South America.
The report claimed most fanatics leave for adventure, power and a sense of belonging in the Middle East.
Concentrated: The report also identified hotbeds of extremism, including Bizerte and Ben Gardane in Tunisia, which has contributed more foreign fighters to ISIS than any other country
Maniacal: ISIS fighter Seifiddine Rezgui (pictured) killed 39 holidaymakers in the resort town of Sousse in June. He left Tunisia and trained at an ISIS run terror camp in Libya before the attack
Those who return not only carry out attacks themselves, but radicalise and train other would be jihadis, Chalk told MailOnline.
He added: 'These could eventuate as both lone wolf strikes as well as more coordinated attacks from structured cells, as appears to have been the case in Paris.'
He also said the danger of radicalisation is heightened even further by ISIS propaganda, adding: 'The issue of self-radicalisation also looms large... The recent shootings in the US [San Bernandino, California] appear to have stemmed from a couple who were driven to terrorism through exposure to ISIS propaganda they accessed through the Internet.'
The report shows how ISIS has corrupted hearts and minds in every corner of the globe, which has in turn created hotbeds of extremism.
ISIS recruiters have targeted the Belgian region of Molenbeek, home of Paris terror attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, to the tiny Norwegian district of Lisleby home to 6,000 people where eight people have left for Syria.
Molenbeek is dubbed the 'jihadi capital of Europe' because it is believed to be a hotbed of terrorist activity.
Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon confirmed the majority of the country's foreign fighters came from Brussels - and particularly from Molenbeek.
Others ares of concentrated fanaticism included Bizerte and Ben Gardane in Tunisia, which has contributed more foreign fighters to ISIS than any other country, Derna in Libya and the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia.
Vengeance: Around 250 north American fanatics are thought to be in Iraq and Syria. In October, a masked jihadi (pictured) with an American accent killed four Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in 'revenge' for a raid by US special forces that killed 20 terrorists
Cubs: ISIS released a propaganda video in March which featured young Malaysian boys brandishing weapons in front of its black flag
The report added: 'The existence of these hotbeds results from the personal nature of recruitment. Joining the Islamic State is not a rational act so much as an emotional one.
'Where one joins, another is more likely to follow. Areas where there are close-knit groups of susceptible youth, often lacking a sense of purpose or belonging outside their own circle, have proved to generate a momentum of recruitment that spreads through personal contacts from group to group.'
'One thing this tells me is that the West is losing - and losing badly - the battle of the narrative against Salafist jihadist ideology,' Colin Clarke also from RAND told MailOnline.
He added: 'Western countries dedicate so much money and resources to hard power and kinetics and not enough on the 'soft side' of counter terrorism.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...in-ISIS-return-carry-Paris-style-attacks.html
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