[AnNahar] Some 60 Germans have been killed while fighting under the banner of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Syria and Iraq, the head of the German domestic intelligence service said Sunday.
"About 60 people from Germany have died or killed themselves, at least nine in suicide kabooms," Hans-George Maassen told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "That's a sad success for Islamist propaganda."
In all about 550 German nationals have joined the IS in the conflict zone, and of these 180 have returned to Germany, he said.
In mid-October, Germany announced new measures to prevent its citizens from traveling to join the jihadist cause in Iraq and Syria, including confiscating their identity papers.
| We keep telling you that you're doing it wrong: let them leave, don't let them return. Give guns to the Kurds. Problems solved. |
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