Quelques estimations, variables, du nombre de « combattants » ou « jihadistes » européens en Syrie dans le Jerusalem Post. Ca varie de 140 à 600 pour certains, c’est à 500 pour quelques uns et à plus de 1000 pour d’autres :
▻http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=311008&R=R1
The UK, Ireland and France are the Western countries believed to have the most fighters in Syria, according to the report, which quotes EU anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove as saying that about 500 Muslims from Europe are fighting with the rebels.
However, according to Soeren Kern, a senior fellow for the New York-based Gatestone Institute, and a longtime observer of Islam in Europe, more than 1,000 European Muslims are fighting in Syria. In an article for Gatestone in March titled “European Jihadists: The Latest Export,” he wrote that Syria “has replaced Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia as the main destination for militant Islamists seeking to obtain immediate combat experience with little or no official scrutiny.”