Senior Kurdish Leader Claims ISIS Has An “Army’ Of 200K — 7X, to 8X U.S. Intelligence Estimates
Patrick Cockburn, writing in the London newspaper, The Independent, (Nov. 16, 2014), writes that Fuad Hussein, the Chief of Staff to Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, told The Independent today (Sunday) that the Islamic State has recruited an ‘army’ of hundreds of thousands, far stronger than previous estimates by U.S. Intelligence. Barzani claimed that “the ability of ISIS to attack on many widely separated fronts in Iraq and Syria…at the same time — shows that the number of militant fighters is at least 200K.” “I’m talking about hundreds of thousands of fighters, because they are able to mobilize Arab young men in the territory they have taken.”
Mr. Barzani bases his ‘estimates’ on the fact that “ISIS rules a third of Iraq and, a third of Syria — with a population between 10M…
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