Här är sex bengaliska jihadister, medlemmar i ett
ökänt shariagäng i Portsmouth, fotograferade på
flygplatsen på väg till Syrien. Gänget Bad Boys
hade bestämt sig för att slåss för den onde
profeten och Kalifatets utbredning.
Två år senare är fem döda och en sitter i fängelse
i Storbritannien sedan han tappat lusten att mörda
och rest hem.
Brittiska säkerhetstjänsten uppger att minst sextio
"brittiska" jihadister hittills dött i Kalifatet.
Uppskattningsvis 40 jihadister från Sverige har
bitit i gräset ...
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Liksom tidigare är det totala antalet euro-jihadister
osäkert och sannolikt kraftigt underdrivet av
myndigheterna.
SÄPO:s beräkning på 600 jihadister från Sverige är,
milt uttryckt, föga trovärdigt.
Möjligen stämmer den in på antalet från Göteborgs
islamiserade förorter...
om problemet sedan EU:s justitiekommissarie råkat
avslöja lite för mycket.
"It was a remarkably frank admission for a European official. What was surprising was not so much that EU Justice Commissioner Vĕra Jourová told the French daily Le Figaro that the number of Europeans to have gone to Syria to partake in jihad could be as high as 6000. This number was higher than that hitherto acknowledged by EU officialdom, but not dramatically so. What was surprising was that Jourová admitted that she and her colleagues suspect that even this figure “severely underestimates” the real number of euro-jihadists.
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So, how many Europeans have really joined the Syrian jihad? One does not need to go as far as a recently-leaked Spanish police report, which puts the number at as high as 100,000. (The low edge of the Spanish police estimate is 30,000.) But there is no reason to believe that the security services of other European nations – and, in particular, the French – are any more omniscient than their German colleagues. There must clearly be a substantial “unknown number” in their cases as well. However unwelcome this realization may be for European officials, credible estimates – as opposed to mere headcounts – of Europeans involved in the Syrian jihad must undoubtedly now be made not in the thousands, but in the tens-of-thousands."
