The surge of fighters into Iraq has the Islamic State of Iraq and Syrian (ISIS) recruitment effort picking up dramatic pace, with rebel mouthpiece the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting they signed up 6,300 new fighters in July alone.
That’s a huge addition, and also a shift in the overall makeup of ISIS, as some 5,000 of the new recruits were believed to be Syrians. ISIS is overwhelmingly made up of foreign fighters.
The influx of Syrian recruits finally gives ISIS a meaningful membership which is local to their new “caliphate,” as opposed to simply foreign invaders who are carving out a religious state in territory they ousted Syria and Iraq from.
The recruitment surge is likely not a one-off deal, either, with the group picking up its efforts even more this month, following the US launching an air war in Iraq. The US war is expected to have a big impact on recruitment of westerners, as well as locals still angry at the last US occupation.
Somehow the reporting of recruitment numbers for a group like ISIS seems more like propaganda than fact.
How did this happen so fast? Just because we had no troops there meant we were deaf dumb and blind? I doubt it very much. And what a fantastic plan! Bomb TIS so more wanna-be jihadists flood there – sure that was our plan all along, that's why we destabilized secular Iraq and Syria in the 1st place. More throwing handful after handful of crap against the wall and going with what sticks.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/08/isis-re…
The elites in the US and their EU collaborators have become the biggest pieces of garbage imaginable. It's getting sick and out of control – lying about shot down / disappeared planes from the same airline, good terrorist proxies we back here, bad terrorists we bomb there, allies today, enemies tomorrow…everything their controlled press tells you sets off the bullsh!t alarm!
Amerikan attempts to still be portrayed as the good guys and not some decrepit USSR spin-off is so pathetic.
We've always been at war with Eurasia!
this did not happen very fast at all, from the moment the iraqi army disbanded and the de-baathication began every step that the government in badgad has taken has been to the determent of the sunni, with the explicit message that they will be given no power, that they will get no concessions, and every single sunni leader who attempted to reconcile was mistreated or pushed to the sides.
we have been deaf dumb and blind the whole time.