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Daily Mail: Turkish border a 'Gateway to Jihad'
The 'Gateway to Jihad' is
along an open stretch of rugged Turkish border used by estimated 20
foreign recruits to cross into Syria and Iraq every day, wrote Sam
Greenhill for the British Daily Mail in his colomn, attributing his
claims to the observations he made in the border town of Reyhanlı in
Turkey.
Greenhill stated in his articled titled "How seven radicalised young Britons a week are taking the Gateway to Jihad" that an average of seven Britons a week are crossing over to Syria and Iraq from this wide open stretch of rugged Turkish border.
The British journalist pointed out that the number of UK recruits has increased since creation of the 'Jihad Express', saying that up to 1,000 Britons and UK residents have now joined the extremists spreading terror across Syria and Iraq – more than double as many as the Government admits, according to security sources.
Disturbingly, -he added- intelligence agencies believe that the number of UK recruits travelling through this alarmingly open ‘gateway’ to IS strongholds of northern Syria is increasing since the self-proclaimed creation of a caliphate stretching from Syria to Iraq.
"It is no coincidence that virtually all the young radicalised Britons have joined up by crossing this porous, poorly policed Turkish border of mountain passes and plains without confronting security", the Daily Mail's Greenhill said.
"It is the same route used by the Cardiff trio who appeared on a jihad recruitment video, a one-time rapper, a computer hacker and one-time privately educated college boy – all of whom are now at the centre of British investigations as they boast on Twitter of their exploits", Greenhill said and stressed that it is an alarmingly easy route to terror where border guards can turn a blind eye for as little as ten US dollars as recruits and smugglers are able to breach the border seemingly at will with them.
According to Greenhill who also cited eyewitnesses, the border town of Reyhanlı is one of the places British Jihadis cross with their Brothers-in-Arms to fight for ISIS, and many recruits simply use gleaming new Hatay airport, built just ten miles from the Syrian border.
The article says; “In frontier town Reyhanli, a bombed-out staging post for hundreds of fighters, shop owner Abu Saleh said European jihadis buy hunting knives, sniper rifle sights, binoculars and desert camouflage fatigues.He said one bearded man walked in waving $50,000 (£30,000) in bundles of cash and bought a thousand ‘magazine vests’ for carrying spare AK47 rifle ammunition clips."
Greenhill quoted the manager of the Miray Hotel as saying that a busload of 30 Britons recently stayed there on their way to Syria. He added that in another town on the tinderbox frontier, Kilis, a smuggler called Ibrahim said he drove five Britons dressed in Afghan garb over the line by simply bribing a border guard with ‘less than ten dollars'.
The Mail has witnessed just how easy the crossing is, Green hill said and added; "A Turkish army truck full of soldiers drove by. They barely glanced at a gaggle of smugglers from local villages who were busy carting oil drums and boxes of food and medicine down to the riverbank, to be pulled across on makeshift rafts. At sunset, jihadis slip into Syria the same way, without ever encountering a border official. Similar scenes unfold at hundreds of unguarded points along a border that stretches 560 mountainous miles."
The Mail journalist said unofficial operations are on-going to track the militants in the border area, but Turkey has been reluctant to stop anyone from crossing.For months -he underlined- they have allowed weapons and supplies destined for recognised Syrian opposition groups to cross and European governments have been frustrated that little appears to have been done to stop the jihadis.
"A large force of jihadis is reported to be moving towards the border. Their goal is to provide a guaranteed gateway through the 130-mile frontier. If that happens, it will make the ‘Jihad Express’ even simpler", he added.
Greenhill stated in his articled titled "How seven radicalised young Britons a week are taking the Gateway to Jihad" that an average of seven Britons a week are crossing over to Syria and Iraq from this wide open stretch of rugged Turkish border.
The British journalist pointed out that the number of UK recruits has increased since creation of the 'Jihad Express', saying that up to 1,000 Britons and UK residents have now joined the extremists spreading terror across Syria and Iraq – more than double as many as the Government admits, according to security sources.
Disturbingly, -he added- intelligence agencies believe that the number of UK recruits travelling through this alarmingly open ‘gateway’ to IS strongholds of northern Syria is increasing since the self-proclaimed creation of a caliphate stretching from Syria to Iraq.
"It is no coincidence that virtually all the young radicalised Britons have joined up by crossing this porous, poorly policed Turkish border of mountain passes and plains without confronting security", the Daily Mail's Greenhill said.
"It is the same route used by the Cardiff trio who appeared on a jihad recruitment video, a one-time rapper, a computer hacker and one-time privately educated college boy – all of whom are now at the centre of British investigations as they boast on Twitter of their exploits", Greenhill said and stressed that it is an alarmingly easy route to terror where border guards can turn a blind eye for as little as ten US dollars as recruits and smugglers are able to breach the border seemingly at will with them.
According to Greenhill who also cited eyewitnesses, the border town of Reyhanlı is one of the places British Jihadis cross with their Brothers-in-Arms to fight for ISIS, and many recruits simply use gleaming new Hatay airport, built just ten miles from the Syrian border.
The article says; “In frontier town Reyhanli, a bombed-out staging post for hundreds of fighters, shop owner Abu Saleh said European jihadis buy hunting knives, sniper rifle sights, binoculars and desert camouflage fatigues.He said one bearded man walked in waving $50,000 (£30,000) in bundles of cash and bought a thousand ‘magazine vests’ for carrying spare AK47 rifle ammunition clips."
Greenhill quoted the manager of the Miray Hotel as saying that a busload of 30 Britons recently stayed there on their way to Syria. He added that in another town on the tinderbox frontier, Kilis, a smuggler called Ibrahim said he drove five Britons dressed in Afghan garb over the line by simply bribing a border guard with ‘less than ten dollars'.
The Mail has witnessed just how easy the crossing is, Green hill said and added; "A Turkish army truck full of soldiers drove by. They barely glanced at a gaggle of smugglers from local villages who were busy carting oil drums and boxes of food and medicine down to the riverbank, to be pulled across on makeshift rafts. At sunset, jihadis slip into Syria the same way, without ever encountering a border official. Similar scenes unfold at hundreds of unguarded points along a border that stretches 560 mountainous miles."
The Mail journalist said unofficial operations are on-going to track the militants in the border area, but Turkey has been reluctant to stop anyone from crossing.For months -he underlined- they have allowed weapons and supplies destined for recognised Syrian opposition groups to cross and European governments have been frustrated that little appears to have been done to stop the jihadis.
"A large force of jihadis is reported to be moving towards the border. Their goal is to provide a guaranteed gateway through the 130-mile frontier. If that happens, it will make the ‘Jihad Express’ even simpler", he added.
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