It is known simply as the ‘Gateway to Jihad’.
This
is the wide open stretch of rugged Turkish border where an average of
seven Britons a week are crossing over to Syria and Iraq.
It
is the same route used by the Cardiff trio who appeared on a jihad
recruitment video, a one-time rapper, a computer hacker and one-time
privately educated college boy – all of whom are now at the centre of
British investigations as they boast on Twitter of their exploits.
As
the Mail witnessed, it is an alarmingly easy route to terror where
border guards can turn a blind eye for as little as ten US dollars and
an estimated 20 foreign recruits are travelling each day.
Smugglers
and jihadists are able to breach the border seemingly at will with
border guards turning a blind eye for 10 US dollars. An estimated 20
foreign recruits are travelling each day
One shopkeeper in Reyhanli, Turkey, said one
bearded man walked in waving $50,000 (£30,000) in bundles of cash and
bought a thousand 'magazine vests' for carrying spare AK47 rifle
ammunition clips
Up
to 1,000 Britons and UK residents have now joined the extremists
spreading terror across Syria and Iraq – more than double as many as the
Government admits, according to security sources.
Disturbingly,
intelligence agencies believe that the number of UK recruits travelling
through this alarmingly open ‘gateway’ to IS strongholds of northern
Syria is increasing since the self-proclaimed creation of a caliphate
stretching from Syria to Iraq.
It
is no coincidence that virtually all the young radicalised Britons have
joined up by crossing this porous, poorly policed Turkish border of
mountain passes and plains without confronting security.
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