Fire and Rescue Services: Staff
(asked on 9th June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of Saddam Hussein’s elite guards and soldiers who have joined ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
This question was answered on 20th June 2016
The Government does not hold figures for the number of former military personnel from Saddam Hussein’s regime that joined Daesh. However, there are credible reports of several ex-Ba’athist senior military officials and personnel with weapons expertise having joined Daesh.