File Photo: Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy to the US-led coalition fighting IS group (Photo: AFP)
AFP: US-led coalition building jihadist database: Envoy
The US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group is building a database of foreign fighters to track jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria at home, a senior US official said Thursday.
Brett McGurk, the White House envoy to the anti-IS coalition, told an Israeli security conference the effort aimed to help prevent attacks like those recently carried out in Europe.
"Our coalition is building a global database of foreign fighters, through information-sharing networks and Interpol, to ensure that anyone who fought with IS group in Syria and Iraq can be identified in either routine traffic stops, border entry points or in the course of routine police work," McGurk said.
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WNU Editor: I do not know if these data bases will make a difference. British Intelligence officers have identified 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers .... Britain ‘home to 23,000 jihadists’ (The Australian/The Times) ... and they cannot track the majority of these identified jihadist. If they cannot track these individuals .... how can they then track these additional jihadists returning from the Middle East. The same can be said for almost every other country in the coalition .... they cannot track current numbers .... how can they then track these jihadists returning home.
