AuH20
02-11-2015, 12:23 PM
All part of the plan.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/11/shock-report-20000-foreign-fighters-flooding-into-syria/
No precise numbers are available “but the trend lines are clear and concerning,” Nicholas Rasmussen, NCTC director, said in prepared remarks for a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
“The rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is unprecedented. It exceeds the rate of travelers who went to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Somalia at any point in the last 20 years,” he said.
The volunteers come from a range of backgrounds and “do not fit any one stereotype,” Rasmussen said.
“The battlefields in Iraq and Syria provide foreign fighters with combat experience, weapons and explosives training, and access to terrorist networks that may be planning attacks which target the West,” he said.
Sounds like a staging area to me.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/11/shock-report-20000-foreign-fighters-flooding-into-syria/
No precise numbers are available “but the trend lines are clear and concerning,” Nicholas Rasmussen, NCTC director, said in prepared remarks for a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
“The rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is unprecedented. It exceeds the rate of travelers who went to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Somalia at any point in the last 20 years,” he said.
The volunteers come from a range of backgrounds and “do not fit any one stereotype,” Rasmussen said.
“The battlefields in Iraq and Syria provide foreign fighters with combat experience, weapons and explosives training, and access to terrorist networks that may be planning attacks which target the West,” he said.
Sounds like a staging area to me.