There Are Now 20,000 Foreign Fighters Fighting For The Islamic State

Chechen Omar al-Shishani (centre) led Jaysh al-Muhajirin before it split, and is now part of the al-Qaeda-affiliated ISIS. BBC

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WNU Editor: A fifth of these Jihadists (4,000) are from Europe .... these are numbers that Osama Bin Laden could only dream about when he was running Al Qaeda.