http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/26/...ampaign=bufferWhen a U.S. citizen going by the name “Abu Abdullah al-Amriki” blew himself up in a suicide attack in Baiji, Iraq, this month, he was the most recent example of a troubling trend: the roughly 200 Americans who have traveled or attempted to travel to Iraq and Syria to fight for the Islamic State.
Not all of the foreigners have left for the region looking to fight for the Islamic State, however. Instead, growing numbers of Americans are heading there to fight against the extremists. The American fighters — mostly military veterans, with a strangely disproportionate share of Texans — are linking up with Kurdish groups and Christian militias in the region to battle the Islamic State militants who currently control broad swaths of Iraq and Afghanistan. A new report by the investigative website Bellingcat, released Wednesday, takes the first systematic look at these “other foreign fighters.”
The report finds that at least 108 Americans — including one woman — have made the journey to Iraq and Syria to take on the Islamic State, highlighting the global nature of the conflict and the relative ease of recruitment and travel to the battlefield. It’s a dangerous undertaking, and one American has already been killed in the fighting. Massachusetts resident Keith Broomfield, 36, died while fighting with a Kurdish militia in Syria earlier this year. Broomfield, who had no military experience, traveled to the war zone after a Christian religious awakening.
"with a strangely disproportionate share of Texans"
TX got lotsa Muslim haters combined with Holy Warrior, Bible humping "Christian" gun fellators who love to kill stuff. We'll see how many come back alive, in one piece, and/or mentally destroyed.
"Broomfield, who had no military experience, traveled to the war zone after a Christian religious awakening." poor sucker, religion makes you mentally ill, deranged, ignorant.
s have always hated Christianity, it's how you got the name"with a strangely disproportionate share of Texans"
"Broomfield, who had no military experience, traveled to the war zone after a Christian religious awakening." poor sucker, religion makes you mentally ill, deranged, ignorant.
Not just a disproportionate share from Texas, but a strangely disproportionate share?
wouldnt it be better to be employ by the govt and go fight where u still get paid and benefits?
wtf do you get for fighting for these clowns in the ME?
Texas is strange.
Repugs broke the M/E, not Obama and the Dems, so the Repugs can sign up and go (FAIL to) fix the M/E.
Yeah it shouldn't be strange.
strange to normal non-Texans
Dudes a hero
I sure hope you aren't in Texas boutons, If so would you be interested in mutual combat? Where are you in tx
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