2,000 Britons Fighting for ’ISIL’: British MP

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As many as 2,000 Britons are fighting alongside extremist militants in Syria and Iraq, according to a senior British MP as The Telegraph said on Sunday.

Officials had suggested that the number of British extremists within the ranks of "Daesh" and other terrorist groups was about 500.

However, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, Khalid Mahmood, said that, "The authorities say there are 500 British [extremists] but the likely figure is at least three to four times that," adding that, "I think 2,000 is a better estimate. My experience in Birmingham is it is a huge, huge problem."

There are growing fears that the authorities remain unable to detect extremists leaving UK ports on their way to terrorist training camps, the Telegraph said. 

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