Secondo le stime più recenti dell’Intelligence statunitense sarebbero 30.000 i combattenti stranieri affluiti nell’area siriana dal 2011 ad oggi. Un numero nettamente più alto rispetto alle stime precedenti.
Scrive il New York Times che secondo l’Amministrazione Obama gli sforzi internazionali per rallentare il flusso di combattenti stranieri non hanno sortito l’effetto sperato ed il flusso è anzi aumentato. Un rapporto di una commissione d’inchiesta del Parlamento statunitense di prossima pubblicazione confermerebbe questi dati e valuterebbe in modo molto critico l’efficienza della cooperazione internazionale. Riporta infatti il quotidiano newyorkese:

“Foreign partners are still sharing information about terrorist suspects in a manner which is ad hoc, intermittent, and often incomplete,” says the 85-page report. Its release is timed to the meeting at the United Nations. “There is currently no comprehensive global database of foreign fighter names,” it says. “Instead, countries including the U.S. rely on a weak, patchwork system for swapping individual extremist identities.” […]

The United Nations Counter-Terrorism office has recommended that countries take urgent measures to disrupt travel by would-be fighters. At the moment, only five of 21 high-priority countries surveyed require advance passenger information or passenger name records, making it virtually impossible to flag suspects who might be flying to conflict zones in incremental steps, rather than taking direct flights that would invite scrutiny.
Most countries have passed laws to restrict “incitement” to terrorist acts, but in some places those laws are so broad that they prevent free expression. Most countries, however, do not have laws that enable them to prosecute those suspected of planning travel to a country to commit terrorist acts or receive terrorist training; of the 21 countries, only five had such laws.