DER SPIEGEL reports German intelligence agency’s assessment of ISIS activities in the country:
The number of Islamists leaving Germany to join the terrorist war in Syria and Iraq continues to rise. According to the information received by DER SPIEGEL, the Federal Agency for State Protection [Germany’s domestic spy agency] estimates that so far 910 Jihadists have left the country. Nearly a half [of those who travelled to join the ISIS] are German citizens, and one-fifth of them women.
Around 145 extremists from Germany are thought to have already died in Iraq or Syria. Federal Agency for State Protection estimates that one-third of these Jihadists are meanwhile back in Germany, and 70 [of these returnee] were involved in fighting. […]
Regardless of the military setbacks to ISIS, experts believe that it poses an ever increasing threat to Europe. The experts in the security establishment conclude that the terrorist militia could put more effort into dispatching attackers to the West or recruit attackers in Europe itself. Both of these strategies drove terrorist attacks in France, Belgium and also Germany. (Author’s translation)
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