Who has been recruited to ISIS from the West…names and numbers

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ISIS militants in SyriaMore than 20,000 foreigners have flocked to fight for ISIS, the radical Sunni group that controls portions of Iraq and Syria.

They hail from 90 countries, and an estimated 3,400 fighters come from Western states,according to Nicholas Rasmussen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

Those are the numbers — estimates, of course.

But who is actually going? What are their names? What do they look like, where are they from and — perhaps most importantly — why are they going?

These are some of the individuals we know have traveled or tried to join ISIS.

United States

U.S. officials say more than 150 fighters have traveled from America to join the militant group. We don’t yet know the identity of any Americans who have successfully made it to ISIS-controlled lands, but we do know the identities of a handful of people who have been accused of trying.

On Wednesday, three men from New York — Abdurasul Juraboev, 24; Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19; and Abror Habibov, 30 — were arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. An unsealed criminal complaint accused two of the men of discussing a potential attempt to assassinate President Barack Obama. One of the men had discussed hijacking a flight and handing it over to ISIS, the complaint said.
Four women from Colorado have been accused of attempting to join ISIS. Three Denver teenagers, who investigators say were recruited via social media, were stopped in Germany last October and sent back to the United States. After being arrested in spring 2014, Shannon Maureen Conley was one of the first Americans sentenced for conspiracy to support ISIS.

Two men who have appeared in horrific ISIS propaganda videos could be from the United States or Canada, according to analysts. The individuals — both of whom are shown wearing masks covering everything but their eyes — spoke in what sounded like North American accents. One was in a video entitled “Flames of War,” which shows the execution of a handful of men. The other militant is the speaker in ISIS’ first propaganda video out of Libya, which ends with the graphic beheading of more than a dozen Egyptian Christians.

Canada

Canada’s intelligence agency estimated in 2014 that more than 130 of its citizens had traveled to the region to join ISIS.

Damian Clairmont was killed fighting in Aleppo last year. His mother, Christianne Boudreau, told CNN that Clairmont converted to Islam after high school and was gradually recruited by the group.

“He was compelled to go there to help save women and children to stop the torture,” Boudreau said. She says that over time, he was brainwashed by ISIS.

John Maguire and and Khadar Khalib — both in their early 20s — were charged in absentia by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with knowingly participating in the activities of a terror group and counseling a person to knowingly participate in a terrorist activity. They’re believed to be fighting with ISIS, according to authorities.

A woman who goes by the alias of “Toronto Jane” was tweeting support for the terror group in Toronto until November. After a brief hiatus, her tweets (which were geotagged) started coming in from Syria.

France

Perhaps the most well-known French national who is presumed to be in Syria is Hayat Boumeddiene, the widow of Amedy Coulibaly, the man who killed four people in a Paris kosher market in January. An ISIS propaganda magazine says Boumeddiene safely reached the Islamic State, the name the group calls itself, but offered no proof.

Boumeddiene is believed to have disappeared into Syria before the attack.

Of the other roughly 1,200 French fighters who have joined ISIS, French authorities have so far only named one man.

They say Maxime Hauchard appeared in a video that depicts the graphic beheading of men who ISIS says were Syrian government pilots. French authorities have backed off a claim that another national, Mickael Dos Santos, was believed to be member of ISIS.

UK

About 600 UK nationals are believed to have gone to Iraq and Syria, according to research groups. Among them:

— A man who has been dubbed Jihadi John, the black-clad, masked militant who has appeared in the majority of ISIS’ beheading videos. He was identified Thursday as Mohammed Emwazi, believed to be from west London, the Reuters news agency reported, citing The Washington Post and the BBC. One of Emwazi’s close friends disclosed his name to the Post, that newspaper reported. London’s Metropolitan Police declined to confirm the reported identity.

— Three classmates from London — Shamima Begum, 15; Kadiza Sultana, 16; and Amira Abase, 15 — left the UK on February 17 bound for Istanbul. Police said on Tuesday they believe the girls have reached their intended destination, Syria.

— Aqsa Mahmood, 19, left her home in September, bound for the ISIS battlefield. She hugged her parents goodbye, and four days later crossed the Turkish border into Syria, hoping to become a martyr.

Australia

Australia, where a number of individuals have been charged with terror offenses in recent months, has seen more than 50 of its nationals travel to the region to become ISIS fighters.

But the case that perhaps stands out most prominently is that of Khaled Sharrouf.

“That’s my boy,” he wrote on Twitter this past summer — posted alongside a photo of his 7-year-old son holding up a man’s severed head.

Germany

Author, journalist and former German politician Jürgen Todenhöfer traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria and Iraq in December. He spoke with CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen and shared video of a conversation he had with a German ISIS militant, one of an estimated 600 from the country.
Todenhöfer spoke with the man over Skype for months.

“He says what they want him to say,” Todenhöfer said. “He is sure that he is on the right way.”

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89 responses to “Who has been recruited to ISIS from the West…names and numbers”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    The conspiracy thickens…

    1. All potential idiots should converge there and then we wipe them out.

      1. When are you going over there?

        1. When a pig like you flies…

          1. I “flew” past this cyclist this morning.
            Now when are you going over there?

          2. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            O O O is not fly but he is a pig.. but pigs attract flies like ISIS and Assad.

          3. Actually shite is what attracts flies more. 🙂

          4. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            I now understand your anger towards Shiites, You wanted to perform Mutaa with a Shiite but he wanted no part of it. Well Barabie, you can’t really blame him, can you. Not everybody is into rooting pigs. Only David likes that kind of disgusting shit.

          5. Only shites perform muta. I’m not a shite. You are tho. A huge smelly shite

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “he” is she-barabie Jihadi JOhn.

          7. “So profound were the effect of the two men’s ideas on Emwazi that he renounced his Shia faith and converted to the Sunni creed adhered to by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).”

            Enjoy sweetie

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “So profound were the effect of this Al Qaeda men’s, yhr shallow mind, he converted to Sunnis”, like the Lebanese Christians.

          9. Lol it seems peculiar how these Shiites, just before commiting horrendous crimes, convert to Sunni.
            And you try awfully hard to defend Shiites even though you claim not to be one o shite one.
            I would EVERYTHING I own that you are Shiite.

          10. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            woff.. wofff.. my mistress sent me to tell you she knowoff nothing about Shia Sunni ,,woff..wwff not part of her culture ..go away ..wooffF

          11. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            “I would EVERYTHING I own that you are Shiite.”

            Learn to speak English you idiot.

          12. Lol if that’s the best you could find then you are much much sadder than I thought.
            Try adding the word bet in that comment. Sad case.

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ..and she owns nothing..

          14. Btw dickhead stop claiming you are quoting when in actual fact you are only barking. You deceptive fraudulent, lying, braying daft mare.

          15. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Yes I’m quoting, it passe in though my news but it does not interest me me, thousands from 80 countries joined ISIS, no mater their religion, stop stalking. ISIS-NAZIS are the same hyenas

          16. Lol keep stalking you delusional degenerate daft mare.
            You were not quoting you lying whore

          17. Btw speak English butch or else I will bitch slap you

          18. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I read your deep ideology as an Imam for ISIS in English butch:

            O – Hind Abyad • 14 hours ago

            So profound were the effect of the two men’s ideas on Emwazi that he renounced his Shia faith and converted to the Sunni creed adhered to by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

            Note; barabia’s Emzawi, is Jihadi JOhn.

          19. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Why don’t you come and bitch slap me. I dare you to whore.

          20. Give me your address sweetie.
            I dare you to. Or are you scared? 🙂

          21. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            69, KISS EMIK ST, AYRI BE TIMICK Post code is 6969.

          22. Chicken shit. Lmfao

          23. And as usual you never have anything constructive nor meaningful to add. Just insults and threats to a person you think is a woman.
            That’s ok sweetie. Another one filed 🙂

          24. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            So what you say to Hind aren’t insults and threats. You really are an Idiot, aren’t you.

          25. Lol show me where I threatened daft mare. And your threat has already been filed. Screenshot and all. 🙂

          26. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Lol You really are an Idiot. Is this not your post.

            “Btw speak English butch or else I will bitch slap you”

          27. Lmfao you obviously don’t know the meaning oh rhetorical.
            Thank you so much for, yet again, proving how uneducated you are.
            Dumb dumb

          28. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Oh, and btw, that wasn’t a insult or a threat you moron. It was an invitation ya tizi. Learn to distinguish between the two.

          29. Lol you edited your comment after I caught you out yet again. Deceptive little sharmouta

          30. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I should have never talked to a fly, it’s not human.

          31. Caught out lying again ay sweetie?
            Just like you stalk me, I am going to stalk you. And every time you lie, I will pounce on you. 🙂

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar

        And send them in body bags to their families.
        But why is Israel – siding with the “Syrian” rebels from around the World?
        http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/israel-syria-rebels-jihad-sunni-shiite-golan-heights.html?utm_source=Al-Mon

  2. ““He was compelled to go there to help save women and children to stop the torture,” ”

    Brahimi was right

  3. dadgumhippies Avatar
    dadgumhippies

    i don’t care if they get there- just make sure they can never come back

  4. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    So the men cover their faces but the lovely ISIS lady showing her face. isn’t that illegal.. Haram showing her face. she should be wiped 1000 lashes on her behind.. what is ISIS thinking here breaking the rules of the Caliph. shame shame shame..

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar

      Abou Bakr must have been killed since his Mosque speech (watch speech), he disappeared, nobody mention his name..

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        He’s shaving and working his escape route ….

        1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
          nagy_michael2

          he is too fat to run away. Besides how is he going to leave the 13 years old yazdi girls he is molesting..

          1. “Besides how is he going to leave the 13 years old yazdi girls he is molesting..”

            5th has already volunteered to molest them after that Iranian whore leaves for Iran.

          2. zabada Avatar

            Discredit others to kill them is America and zionist tactic.

      2. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        well i hope so but they are many to replace him unfortunately.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          India News November 2014 Breaking news.
          I don’t don’t speak the language but i recognize Abu Bakre, at the end they show Arabic news on the screen, fakes have been made to discredit it but i recognize THIS one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYYYkrPx6U

          1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
            nagy_michael2

            I would not be surprised but I am not sure it’s affecting them much.. their method is still the same and still entrenched in the territories they control. but the evil has spread and there is so much of it there is nothing can be done to stop it. Only Allah can..

          2. “i recognize Abu Bakre”

            Of course you would recognise your daddy. My condolences for your loss.

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Not all gods are invincible …. POOF !

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Nor theirs nor the chosen real estate agent.

  5. it is America mistake..mess up with wrong people..sunnis make up 90% out of nearly 2 billion Muslims.,..it is not easy to kill an organization that support among nearly 2 billion people..America take advantage on Arabs tribalism and planted sectarians and wars in middle east to protect Israel..Hilliary Clinton sais..America created isis..it is common in Europe ,not only America ,divide and rule is western old school to destroy and invade at the past,at colonial times..unfortunately America eventually make big mistake by mess up with Iraqis Sunnis…..in future ..it is not isis any more..it is muslims world coalition and the east vs the west coalition and Israel,, America plan are working other way..arrogant people always make big mistakes.Arrogant is a sin.Fight the global wars that you planted in here.Don,t believe in me..see by your self in near future,even now.When isis captured it,s glory..it will invite too many fans..even by non muslims in the East,..because America and israel have too many enemies,not only Muslims..America just mess up with many people at the past..Don,t believe in me.see by your self in near future,even now.t is my humble analysis.Ask arrogant evil people in White House..why they have done this serious mistakes?.Of course isis will kill many in Middle East..because America plan is working well in the beginning..but they are not going to stop.,when America plan is out of control.. ..they will kill Israelis and Western people who have killed oppressed them at the past.Arrogant Americans has to be blame in this biggest crisis in history of human kind.

    1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
      nagy_michael2

      Yes america didn’t exists when the Sunnis were killing Sunnis. or Shiites vs Sunnis. or you forgot about the Turks who armed the Muslims in Lebanon and disarmed the Christians so they can be slaughtered easily. what about the Armenian Genocide and still to do it ignored by your Muslims friends? It was not for America and the West, Bosnia would have been overran by Christians.. just cause some American politicians are corrupt and greedy, that doesn’t make the Americans and the west as bad. Besides it was not for their help, the Muslim populations of Syria and many countries would starve because of Assad and Ghaddafi and Saddam’s. I guess you forgot it was Obama whom i do not like anyway wanted to bring democratic means to the Middle East. he forced Mubarack out and many others. just cause it didn’t turn his ways you don’t accuse the Americans of mass genocide. All your posts exaggerate everything to make your sweet heart ISIS looks so innocent. you are full of it and you have nothing good to say and appreciate. Yes some people in the gov’t are out for themselves but America has been good to many immigrants and their generations. stop farting and look at the positive side. but what can we ask from Devious ISIS like you. you are no different than Assad and Iranians mullahs. you and your Muslims extremists are out of control and gone crazy. your kind are evil and full of hate and there nothing good come out of your degenerate kinds. and one last thing i say to you and your people. Keah Keah keah..

      1. “he forced Mubarack out”

        Obama forced Mubarak out?? Lol ok sweetie. Was that before or after giving Mubarak $3 billion dollars per year?
        Lol Obama forced Mubarak out!
        Why didn’t Obama force him out BEFORE the Egyptians launched massive, mostly peaceful, protests?
        Stop this fabrication and distortion of history.
        Daft mare and mek are rubbing off on you.

        1. zabada Avatar

          people of Egypt who force him out.,

        2. nagy_michael2 Avatar
          nagy_michael2

          Obama was one of the main leaders that forced him to leave.. maybe you should read the news.. Yes the people of Egypt in the end forced him out and it’s because no outside forces would support him other than the Saudi.

          1. “Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last night he must live up to promises he made about political, social and economic reforms following the fourth day of anti-government demonstrations across Egypt.”

            ““Ultimately, the future of Egypt will be determined by the Egyptian people,” Obama said. “Governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens.””

            Rewriting history nagging Michael?

            http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-28/obama-says-mubarak-must-take-concrete-steps-to-deliver-pledge-on-reforms

        3. actually he did force him out.
          through out the uprising ( the FIRST one, there were so many) Mubaraq was under intense preasure from Obama and the delusional one to give up power.
          team fools was looking to outcast the old dictatorship and instill “democracy”.
          we see the outcome of their “little” experement vibrating through out the ME

          1. Doron read the story I provided nagging Michael. The link is there also. I don’t feel like repeating myself.

      2. “Besides it was not for their help, the Muslim populations of Syria and many countries would starve because of Assad and Ghaddafi and Saddam”

        Lol so saddam and ghaddafi are starving the populations of Syria and MANY COUNTRIES???

        LOLLLLL

        last I checked saddam and ghaddafi were dead but when they were alive there was never accusations of starvation.
        As for the west helping the Syrians not starve, lolllllll. The majority of help has been from Arab countries not the west.
        Again, stop this fabrication and distortion of history. And if, like daft mare, you can’t speak English properly then go to a site which is in a language you are fluent in. Is this all the Lebanese and Iranians on this site do is lie?

        1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
          nagy_michael2

          Well who is taking care of Iraqis and Syrians and many populations that got overran by their leaders. Isn’t the west taking care of them while the Arabs supply them with Rice and dates.
          who don’t put a corkscrew up your ass.. o oh oh .. you feel it now sucker.
          just because you didn’t understand what I am getting at it, then you should learn to analyze.. oh oh o o o.

          1. Very mature and intelligent reply. Lol
            Notice I never insulted you? But coz you had no comeback you resorted to the typical Lebanese way of insults. Oh oh o o o. Whatever the fuck that means

          2. Oh oh
            I get it you are a baboon. Oh oh o o o

          3. Please show how the west is taking care of Syrians. How Syrian refugees did the west take in?

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            We’re considering dumping 10 million refugees – especially the orphans – onto your ‘California Beach-front’, so you can happily Whip them all ‘into shape’. You’d be happy that they could replace the Mexican ‘fruit-pickers’, I suppose.

          5. Idiot, the question was how many SYRIAN refugees has the west taken. Not how poms did Canada take in.

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            ‘Poms’ ?? (gee that sounded sort of racist … hmmm)
            Pomegranates ??? (could even be anti-religious … hmmm, again ..)

      3. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        Very well said…

        1. Another intelligent comment from cannibal. Not.

      4. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        The same is happening, history repeating itself like in 1915, the “Young Turks” decimated the Armenians and Assyrians.

        It doesn’t say Zeev Jabotinsky the creator of Zionism in 1916, then unknown participated in the genocide, as editor in chief of the “Young Turks” paper and friend of the Jew Ataturk.
        Today the descendants of genocide survivors are massacred and still fleeing as we speak, again.( in all “liberated” countries)

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gBQCKAN3CQ

        1. Go liberate your land instead of being a online warrior.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Go to your land Jihady JOhn

          2. Lol jihady John is Shiite.

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            So? Many lost souls, child abusers, women and children rapists, serial killers, psychopaths, sado-porn film makers, thieves, maniacs, justice fugitives FROM ALL RELIGIONS and atheist “coverted” to the Devil andwent to join I$I$. Where in what civilization can they be free to live their criminal fantasies..iIn SUNNI I$I$.

          4. Sunni Sunni Sunni

            Jew Jew Jew

            Tell me sweetie, do you have nightmares of Sunnis and Jews?
            And do you have wet dreams about the ayatoilets?

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Shiit Shiit Shiit
            Iran Iran Iran
            Nasty Nasty Nasty
            asshead asshead asshead
            ayatoilets? ayatoilets? ayatoilets?
            Sunni Sunni Sunni Jews Jews Jews
            sweetie sweetie sweetie..hhhh….
            Have a nice day, stalking paid in Israeli currency

          6. You only come here to stalk me. You follow me everywhere I go. Stalking paid in Iranian shite currency.

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            YaLibnan is witness to the Oposhittt …hhhh…..

          8. And plenty are witness to your lies and deceit.

          9. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            What? My land is free and will stay free of you barbarians who cut heads with kitchen knives.

          10. Sweetie Canada is NOT your land.
            As for Lebanon, it is occupied by Iran. So run along and liberate it. Sweetie!
            Btw I love how it took you FOUR hours to come up with that lame reply

          11. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Were you sitting waiting 4 hours with anxiety?

          12. Yes sweetie. I was in court chewing gum and wearing a cap whilst anxiously awaiting daft mare’s incredibly enlightening reply. Kinda like your reply

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Come tell that to the Canadian government.

            What 4 hours? I’m not Malmequer & O barabie interchangeable Guest’s, society useless parasites with no other interest in life than looking for replies. insignificant irrelevant ISIS parasite. 8.hrs ago i sleep, mongol.

          14. I bet even when you sleep that that black hole of yours is still open for business.

          15. Hey you Iranian chatmouta, why did you leave “all” your “friends” on aljazeera and come here?
            Was it coz they found out you killed ish?
            You can tell me, I won’t tell anyone.

          16. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Hey Zio sharmouta, you want explanations?
            I left ALJ in disgust for every Zionist after watching one IDF blogger’s friend call a “Price Tag” against a Jewish woman (the real Mamequer), just because she defended Palestinians.. that’s how i came to consider Zionism a mental disease.
            The language on ALJ was as disgusting as here since you came. Before that YaLibnan had a moderator people like you were banned for life.

            I forgot all about that ALJ place, i came here one year later, your sicko-zio looser was proud thinking he’s a genius and what he didi to ISHmeai was a service to his country Israe HE made her disappear.
            So he turned to me because he’s a psycho, a parasite, my discus was not private he followed me here where destiny made him find his soul mate, same opinions as Zionists a propos of Lebanon, a Wahabi Salafist Sunni lonely donkey to serve him.

          17. Oh sweetie don’t be a hater. I still love you. Here’s a bone(r) to prove how much I love even if you are a Iranian whore

            Funny how complain about the language even though you start your rant with filthy language. Hypocritical sharmouta

          18. zabada Avatar

            I pay great sympathize for all side.All bad events cause by politic,not religion.

      5. zabada Avatar

        not that worse..at saddam times there no wars like you see.

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