CIA estimates 20k-30k fighters in Syria, Iraq after Obama pledges to destroy ISIS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First you train them, then you fight them!!! Lol</span><br> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Central Intelligence Agency believes the Islamic State militant group “can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters” throughout both Iraq and Syria, CNN reports.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If true, that would mean the Islamic State’s numbers have more than doubled compared to the agency’s last estimate, which pinned the group’s total amount of fighters at roughly 10,000.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This new total reflects an increase in members because of stronger recruitment since June following battlefield successes and the declaration of a caliphate, greater battlefield activity, and additional intelligence,"</em> a CIA spokesperson told CNN.</span><br> <img src="http://araratnews.am/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/islamic-state-executes-tribe.si_.jpg"></div> <div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div></div>

CIA estimates 20k-30k fighters in Syria, Iraq after Obama pledges to destroy ISIS

First you train them, then you fight them!!! Lol The Central Intelligence Agency believes the Islamic State militant group “can muster b...

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