3000 Europeans to Join to fight for ISIS

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3000 Europeans to Join  to fight for ISIS

France and Germany called for a change of policy agreements in the European Schengen travel zone, in order to cope with an increasing number of citizens who join militant groups in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

French police arrested 12 people suspected of Islamist radicals aged between 19 and 34 years are expected to join the militant group ISIS, Monday (15/12).

WASHINGTON DC -

France and Germany for a long time is the most defended the policy without a trip-document within the Schengen travel zone covering 26 European countries. But now the two countries called for changes in the policy in order to cope with an increasing number of European citizens who leave their country to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria.

France and Germany are not the only country that is struggling to overcome the problems of their citizens who fought in the war overseas.

Month of January 2015 the UK - which is not included in the Schengen zone - is expected to announce the seizure and cancellation rules British citizen passport associated with armed groups. Britons who go overseas and fight will not be allowed back, and they declared as people who do not have citizenship.

According to British Prime Minister David Cameron, there is "no other options to address this matter," the presence of foreign nationals who participated provoking the conflict in the Middle East.

Western citizens who entered the ranks of radical groups and fight in Syria and Iraq is likened to a ticking time bomb. Last May, one of them - a French citizen of Algerian origin Mehdi Nemmouche - shooting blindly at a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, and killed four people. Nemmouche is the first Western volunteers who fought with ISIS militants in Syria and carried out attacks in Europe.

The incident raise an alert that when foreign jihadi volunteers have returned to their homeland, there will be more who carried out the attack, and open up a new round of long-term war between the West and the jihadi groups. European countries struggling to overcome this problem with some strategies, such as the exchange of intelligence information and supervise the local Muslim population.

Even before the shooting in Brussels, it has been heightened anxiety over the possibility of a reverse impact on Western countries, when at least three thousand of 15 thousand foreign fighters in the Middle East back to their homeland. "We should not underestimate the threat" against coun- the Western countries, said former FBI agent Martin Reardon.

According to scientists Chams Eddine Zaougui and Pieter Van Ostaeyen, Western fighters who have been in Syria is unlikely to carry out an attack in their own homeland. Suratkabat writing in the New York Times, the two scientists said the fighters pushed against "regime massive torture, assault barrel bombs and chemical weapons attack" by President Bashar Al Assad.

Some other analysts do not agree on that argument.

Research conducted Thomas Hegghammer - Director of Terrorism Research at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment - found that between 1990 and 2010, one of nine Western fighters who went and fought abroad - especially in Afghanistan and the Balkans - then become a domestic terrorist . Some analysts wondered whether that number will be higher in the foreign fighters who have fought in Iraq and Syria, because they seem to be more radical than the previous generation.

American fears of impending impact increases when turning it in late May, a Florida-born citizen Mohammad Moner Abusalha became the first American fighter in Syria who carry out suicide attacks against the Syrian government forces. Abusalha 22-year-old in the truck bomb detonated in the town of Idlib - Syrian northwest.

For intelligence agencies throughout the West, the most worrying aspects of the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and Syria is the fact that most of the residents of this "unknown" previously and their names never appear in the list of reconnaissance inteljen.

Challenges to know where people who already go to jihad is much more difficult for small countries in Europe. They have the intelligence resources that fewer and narrower range reconnaissance - analysts said.

The number of foreign Muslim fighters from Europe in Syria has never been this big before, and much less is going to Afghanistan. Nobody knows the exact number. France - which has the largest Muslim population in Europe is around five million people - seem to have the largest number of foreign fighters in Syria. About 700 teenagers French Muslims are thought to have fought in Syria. British officials say at least 500 Britons have also gone for jihad. But that number could be much higher.

The report issued Soufan Group - security consulting firm in America - estimated "three thousand fighters from Western countries have gone to Syria to fight alongside rebel groups dominated Islamist extremists". But the report was released last May and since the announcement of the establishment of the Caliphate by the leader of the Islamic State of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - the adjustment of the increase in the number of foreign fighters heading to battle it.

Across Europe there has been a series of inter-state meeting at the ministerial level and senior intelligence officials to coordinate the strategies of counter-terrorism. The focus is on the interplay of intelligence and what policies should be taken to the people who returned from the battlefield - whether they should be arrested and tried for war fought overseas, or not. Is their imprisonment would later make them more radical and more determined to attack the West or not ?. Or should require them through de-radicalization program?

Senior researcher at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization in the UK - Shiraz Maher - say when dealing with people who are known to have been recruited to fight abroad or those who have recently returned, the state government should not rely solely on punishment. "Research has shown that only a small percentage of foreign fighters involved in terrorist activities in the country." De-radicalization Intervention or action - and not punishment - is a more appropriate tool to reduce risk.

But Shiraz Maher agreed that the government should do more to empower the security agencies to be able to "prevent the passage of the prospective fighters before they leave the country".

Here's what to do French and German. French and German government wants more checks at airports are there in the Schengen travel zone and called for the establishment of European passenger data centers are up to date so that security agencies can track the movement of suspected terrorists. "It is important" said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said "three thousand fighters had left Europe for jihad and we do not want Europe to become an exporter of terror acts". (VOA)