Islamic State has ‘thousands of suicide bombers,’ says former adviser to Iraqi president

A former adviser to the Iraqi president told attendees at an annual Israeli counterterrorism forum on Tuesday that the Islamic State group has “thousands” of members who are willing to die as suicide bombers anywhere in the world.

Mirza Dinnayi, a senior Yazidi leader and a former adviser on minority affairs to the Iraqi president, said that funding for the terror group is coming from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.

“The Islamic State has no nuclear capability, but it has thousands of suicide bombers that can attack people anywhere in the world,” the Kurdish leader said.

Mr. Dinnayi added that the Islamic State group now controls a land mass four times the size of Israel, the paper reported. He criticized the international community for failing to act quickly during the rise of the Islamic State group, and said that the crisis has created more than 300,000 refugees.

The event was put on in Herzliya by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.