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Germany loses track of 160 returning Islamic State jihadis

Jun 24, 2019 6:41 am By Robert Spencer

What could possibly go wrong? These jihadis will no doubt settle down and become loyal, productive German citizens. Won’t they, Ms. Merkel?

Of course, it is Merkel’s policies that made this happen. Her open-door immigration stance made it easy for these jihadis to return to Germany, which — like other Western countries — didn’t dare charge them with treason and/or refuse them entry. Merkel will go down in history as the most destructive German Chancellor since Adolf Hitler.

“Germany loses track of 160 ‘Islamic State’ supporters,” DW, June 23, 2019:

About 1,000 Germans traveled to the Middle East to join the ‘Islamic State’ after 2013. A third of them have since returned to Germany. Some died on the battlefield, others are in prison, but many appear to be missing.

The German government has lost track of more than 160 German “Islamic State” (IS) supporters who traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the terror group, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper has reported.

The figure from the Interior Ministry was part of a response to a request from the Free Democrats (FDP).

The ministry said many of the German fighters were believed to have died in combat, however “in rare cases, these individuals could have succeeded in escaping and/or disappearing.”

The ministry stressed it was unlikely IS followers would pass unnoticed in Germany, given “various measures (including wanted lists or entry bans), which make uncontrolled re-entry much more difficult.”…

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  1. Buraq says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 6:46 am

    Search the basements of all Mosques in Germany. You’d be amazed at what would turn up!

  2. RichardL says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 7:16 am

    To lose track of something would mean that government had these people observed first. They never did. I know how the Verfassungsschutz operates: the top are political soldiers and the the middle is full of people who really don’t care. The base, mostly recruited for some time from the police, cares but has to obey orders. When the Identitaeren said that the plan is to destroy Germany by importing islamic hordes, I didn’t believe it. When I started to see that it was actually happening I doubled my efforts to escape to the US.

  3. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 7:54 am

    Poor Germany, however as an American, I am more concerned with how many Hezbollah agents have slipped across our border, or came in “legal” on a Venezuelan passport. According to our DOJ, Hezbollah has over 40,000 agents world wide poised for terror.

    • Joe says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 3:14 pm

      You’re concerned about Hezbollah?
      The same Hezbollah that protected minorities and helped Christians fight Sunni jihadis?

      • Angemon says

        Jun 26, 2019 at 1:11 pm

        Don’t you mean the same Hezbollah that routinely murders civilians and has a vast infrastructure of criminal activities all across the world?

  4. Jaladhi says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 8:39 am

    Makes in laugh!! How they are going to find them among the millions of them living in Germany?? This is a futile search just to show the world that Germans are genuinely concerned about jihadis in Germany!

  5. mortimer says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 9:59 am

    Those who committed crimes against humanity should be tried and sentenced to life without parole. They should be deprogrammed in jail.

    Unfortunately, only the government of communist China is able to deprogram Muslim prisoners.

    • Paul J says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 2:10 am

      How can you tell if they have been deprogrammed Mortimer? Won’t they say anything just to be released? You of all people know what islamic deception is. Crimes against humanity; if found guilty, put in the ground as the Nazis were. That is the only way you can be 100% sure that they pose no further threat. Your deprogrammed idea is as naive as those who think being nice to them will result in them being nice back. The longer we avoid the inevitable conflagration the stronger they get. No doubt you would have advocated re-education for Nazis back in the 1930’s too. Unpalatable though is, islam has to be treated the same as National Socialism was. With force. If not violently at the very least expulsion back to the sands of Arabia where they belong and total economic
      and physical isolation from the West. We have to play by their rules because they are laughing at ours, and many innocents are suffering as a result. Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind.

      • A_M_Swallow says

        Jun 25, 2019 at 8:03 am

        I do not believe that the Jihadi deprogramming courses will work. However I also believe that the British and American public will not accept extermination until deprogramming has been show not to work.

        What is the success rate of the deprogramming projects? What percentage of graduates are recidivists and go on to commit acts of terrorism?

  6. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 11:02 am

    Because of what she has done, and her complacent persistence in criminally negligent stupidity, I can’t stand to look at Merkel’s face.

    • Rufolino says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 4:41 am

      Likewise, Eduardo ! She has made herself repulsive by her policies.

  7. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 11:40 am

    They have joined those tens of thousands who entered Germany and “disappeared”.

  8. Angemon says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    A third of them have since returned to Germany.

    I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt to “losing” them – it shouldn’t be that hard to fake death in a combat scenario – but does the article read that instead of “A third of them were arrested when trying to enter Germany”?

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    Germany loses track of 160 returning Islamic State jihadis
    …………………..

    This would be funny if it were not so deadly.

  10. A_M_Swallow says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 11:16 pm

    I wonder how the 160 Jihadis are making a living? If they apply for welfare benefits then they have to reveal their address and the government can find them. The same applies if they get a job and pay income tax.

    I assume that German government computers cross check applicants against wanted lists.

  11. paul budrunas says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 12:16 am

    Welcome back, Robert. So good to see your name on the by lines again!

  12. R Russell says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 3:26 am

    So Germany has only lost track of 160 returning jihadis….
    That’s not very many. The UK has lost track of over 500+ jihadis any nobody seems to care.
    Mind you, that’s not very many for the future coup.
    In Scotland where ALL of the Political Parties have adopted the Definition of Islamophobia, there are to be cross party talks about how to implement it.
    Sharia is no longer creeping in, but galloping into the UK.
    Maybe they will do something for the Muslims who are on the receiving end of Islamophobia.
    1. The murder of Asad Shah by Tanveer Ahmed – who incidentally runs an extremist group from his prison cell.
    2. The civil rights lawyer, Aamer Anwar, who needed police protection because he called for ‘unity’ after Asad was murdered.
    Asad’s crime? He was Ahmadiyya and wished his customers a happy Easter on Facebook and so had to be murdered for apostasy.
    Aamer Anwar’s call for Muslim unity, for some other Sunnis, resulted in death threats.
    I wonder how this will be approached by the Scottish All Party team?

  13. OLD GUY says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 11:08 am

    This women is as dumb as she looks. Merkel has done a huge amount of damage to Germany with her liberal immigration policy for Muslims.

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