ISIS fanatics could unleash new wave of terror from camps like Shamima Begum’s, says general who defeated the death cult
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ISIS could unleash a new wave of terror by springing fighters from camps like the one holding Shamima Begum, a top general who helped defeat the death cult has revealed. General Mazloum Abdi, who leads the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a Kurdish-led US-backed militia, sounded the alarm over the resurgent terror group.
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Speaking to The Sun in an interview with documentarian and ex-soldier Alan Duncan, Abdi said there are currently 10,000 male fighters in prisons ready to bring devastation back to the Middle East. And the camps are known to include Brits, such as the infamous jihadi bride Shamima Begum.
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US intelligence ranks 2,000 deranged ISIS fighters in the camps as "highly dangerous". The total figure of ISIS fighters and their families held in the prisons, al-Hol and al-Roj is 60,000. General Abdi revealed SDF believe that ISIS forces - which were bravely driven back by his troops - are currently organising a prisonbreak of fighters still held in Syria.
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He also warned the threat of ISIS continues in the West. General Abdi said: "The threat of jihadist groups - not just ISIS - will exist until the fundamentals they were founded on are destroyed. "We must continue our struggle.". He also called on the West to do more to bring these fighters to justice - and to support trials and convictions for the atrocities they committed in the Middle East.
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