How much of this is true no one knows*********** The "CIA": more than 31 000 fighters, many militants "Islamic state" in Iraq and Syria

Follow-Iraq-Presse -12 September: estimated CIA the CIA, on Friday, the number of militants to organize what is known as the "Islamic state" in Iraq and Syria about 31,500 fighters, according to sources, during the past four months.

The news agency AFP quoted a spokesman for the CIA, Ryan Trapani as saying, "The agency estimated crowds militants organization deployed in Iraq and Syria, between 20 000 to 31 500 thousand fighters," noting "these guesses are based to review all sources of intelligence agency for the period from the month of May to the month August ".

He added, Trapani said, "There are several reasons for returning to the observed increase in the strength of its military, and that the total number of new reflects the presence of increasing new elements because of the strength of the recruitment process, which has increased since the month of June following the successes achieved by the organization and the announcement of the succession led to increased activity in the territory of the battle and the double ability of intelligence. "

And estimates of the CIA came a day after the announcement of President Barack Obama's new strategy to double air strikes on targets Tanzim forces in both Iraq and Syria


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