The Caliphate's Global Workforce: An Inside Look at the Islamic State's Foreign Fighter Paper Trail
"This report contains an analysis of over 4,600 unique Islamic State
personnel records that were produced by the group primarily between
early 2013 and late 2014. The importance of this data for understanding
the Islamic State and, in particular, the foreign fighter flow, cannot
be overstated. To put it simply, it is the largest cache of primary
source documents produced by the Islamic State available in the
open-source as of this date. These particular documents were acquired by
NBC News from an Islamic State defector and subsequently provided to
the CTC (and other entities). This report provides a window into the
organization’s global workforce, revealing information about foreign
fighters’ countries of origin, citizenship, points of entry into Syria,
marital status, skills and previous occupations, education levels,
religious knowledge, fighting role preferences in the group, and
previous jihadist experience. In addition to analyzing the data at the
macro-level, the report also highlights numerous anecdotes of individual
fighters. Taken together, the analysis in this report reveals an
organization that is attempting to vet new members, manage talent
effectively within the organization, and deal with an incredibly diverse
pool of recruits."
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