Posted on 11/20/2015 8:21:55 PM PST by Mariner
KILLIS, Turkey
The 15 Chechens looking to cross the border from Turkey to Syria didn’t strike Abdullah as particularly important or unusual.
It was early summer in 2012, and as a smuggler based in the Turkish border town of Killis, Abdullah, who’d fled his home village in Syria because of fighting on the outskirts of Aleppo, was used to secretive groups of foreigners – journalists, aid workers and many recently aspiring jihadists – hiring him to cross Turkish military lines at the border while avoiding what was then still a significant Syrian government presence in northern Syrian.
“In 2012, everyone was coming to Syria and we had too much work leading all kinds of people across the border,†he explained over lunch in Killis, a Turkish town just a few miles from the rebel-held Syrian city of Azzaz. “A lot were Muslims who had come to support the revolution against Bashar Assad from every country. So many from Europe, Russia, Germany, France. . . .â€
The 15 men had reached Abdullah through a network of contacts that were funneling new fighters to northern Syria, and Abdullah recalled they said they were going to Syria to assist in the fight against Assad. They were quiet, disciplined and for the most part spoke only a bit of crude formal Arabic.
Only later did Abdullah realize that the network that funneled these men to him was the beginnings of the Islamic State, and that one of the 15 would turn out to be the most important non-Arab figure in the Islamic State hierarchy, a former American-trained noncommissioned officer in the special forces of the nation of Georgia, who’d led his men heroically during the 2008 Russian invasion of his homeland.
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IS is sustained by the free flow of men, money and equipment from Turkey, while Turkey is the cash market for their oil and other products.
All under the helpful eye of the Obama White House.
I will read the entire article. I like this kind of info.
But first let me say that Turkey and Saudi Arabia and Qatar can go to hell.
We should NOT be training Muslims and we should NOT be educating their children in our University system. Did we train German scientists during WWII? It’s time to get real..
Why not? It's a good tactic. It will really mess their minds up.
LOL, that's for sure.
The three nations you named are not taking refugees.
and no one is calling them out on it. but they’re calling us and the EU out. figures.
I’m sure the government and McCain want their asset Al Baghdadi dead,so he won’t be able to talk.
Think about it. BLM thugs and disrupters mixing with war-hardened and militarily trained terrorists. What could go wrong?
Oh wait, I forgot - we took German and Japanese youths into our University systems and taught them physics and weapons development during WWII... right?
Turkey is taking a lot.
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48e0fa7f.html
“The number of refugees and asylum-seekers in Turkey in 2015 is expected to rise to nearly 1.9 million, including 1.7 million Syrian refugees.”
Turkey is just passing them through to Europe.
The inflow to Europe is quite recent and the fault of Germany and Sweden for inviting them over and of Greece because they are ferrying them in out of some socialist desire to watch the Europe burn.
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