US bombs attract volunteers to fight in Iraq and Syria .. 20 thousand from 90 countries

US bombs attract volunteers to fight in Iraq and Syria .. 20 thousand from 90 countries
2015-02-14T08:58:29+00:00

in increasing numbers from all over the world to fight in the ranks of the jihadists.

Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the Anti-terrorism center said this week in Washington that "the trend is clear and frightening," warning that "The number of foreign fighters who go to Syria is unprecedented."

In a speech to the Committee in the US House of Representatives Rasmussen estimated them by, "more than twenty thousand as the number of foreign volunteers who joined ISIS organization in Syria from ninety countries.

He added that "at least 3400 of these foreign fighters are coming, according to our estimates from Western countries, including 150 Americans."

A continuous flow of traffic

It is clear that the bombing campaign waged by the international coalition led by the United States since August against ISIS sites in Iraq and Syria, left many dead in the ranks of jihadists and halted their progress in some locations, and did not succeed in stopping the flow of fighters movement.

"On the contrary" on what is explained by jihadist movements expert , Roman Caillet from Beirut, adding that the raids campaign "generate enthusiasm for the idea of confronting the United States in the hope of a ground operation in the end."

He noted that ISIS organization has hundreds of thousands of its supporters at the very least in the Arab world .. They consider that their country is under attack and that it is their duty to participate in its defense."

"This is the most clear example of defensive jihad and the fact that the attack is launched by the United States aircraft and coalition that enhances their reasons about the battle on the afterlife. Danger does not scare them away because it is within the rules of the game. Some seeks even to be martyrs , it is enough to see the number of suicide operations."

Hundreds propaganda films broadcast by ISIS organization on the internet and most of them highly professional photographer scenes show collapsed buildings and civilians, mostly women and children wounded or dead and accuse Washington of cowardice for throwing bombs instead of sending soldiers.

Fighting Crusaders

Jean-Pierre Filho, a professor at the Institute of Political Science in Paris, who published a book entitled "I write for you from Aleppo" by Dar Donuel that "the United States has adopted since the attacks of September 11 an approach to the fight terrorism that depends on the number of recruits and not on the flow of" fighters.

"I've praised the elimination of one thousand jihadists since the start of the bombing campaign, but they did not expect the big breadth of the recruitment drive, which raise it in the whole world and the possibility of fighting" crusaders, "according to the name launched in the jihadist propaganda."

Feelings of hostility to the United States in the Arab and Muslim worlds, spread in many of the nearby propositions jihadist circles in the West as fighting against its troops is an evidence of courage and honor although it is limited at the present time to address its planes in the air.

Aaron Lund , expert of Syria at the Carnegie Institute and editor of the magazine (Syria in crisis) that "the United States entered the conflict poses a problem for ISIS organization of course because it is being bombed, but puts it also ranked as the first enemy."

He added that "it helps (the organization) to take al-Qaeda place and gain more credibility. US participation to make the media more interested in what's going on, and issue daily media encourage recruitment."

Aaron added "we are talking about a possible expansion of US strikes against ISIS to Egypt and Libya."

"If this happened ,it will lead to an additional flow of (fighters). If you would like to challenge the credibility of one of the regions at the political level, it is sufficient to enjoy the support of the United States."

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