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"There are people coming from Holland, Germany, even Peru," he said, claiming that the number of European recruits to the jihad is exceeding the Arab complement.
Stort för jihadisterna?
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The international community didn't act, Ibrahim explains, so the global jihadi response has become overwhelming. And for many, the crossing itself is a religious experience.
Ibrahim said: "When they get to the fence, they kneel and cry, they weep, like they've just met something more precious to them than their own family. They believe this land, Syria, is where God's judgment will come to pass."
Many of these devout Muslims believe they are joining the final battle prophesied as happening in Syria -- known as al-Sham -- which will herald the end of the world. The recruits are ecstatic; they never thought this final fight would come in their lifetime.
Varför ha vänner när man kan ha fiender?
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"Our fight is with the West now too, as their silence means they are complicit," he says, listing the "international community" alongside Iran, Russia and the Assad regime as an enemy.
Turkarna?
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Turkey already realizes how serious this is. They repeatedly insist they are fighting extremists in the region. Their president, Abdullah Gul, warned this weekend in an interview with the Guardian, that Europe cannot entertain the idea of "something like Afghanistan on the shores of the Mediterranean."
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But the reality is that it is nearly here already. We stood at the Turkish border and filmed a chilling sight: the flag of ISIS, flying calmly over a minaret a few hundred meters away in the Syrian town of Jarablus - a sign that they control the town.