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The only reporter to be embedded with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) says the West continues to underestimate the terror group and that “only Arabs” can stop them.

Jurden Todenhofer, a former German member of parliament who became a war correspondent in 2000, spent 10 days embedded with ISIL jihadists and detailed the experience in a book titled “Inside IS – Ten Days In The Islamic State”.

Todenhofer, 75, wrote that he believes the West will not be able to militarily defeat ISIL and that “the terrorists plan on killing several hundred million people” in a “nuclear tsunami.”

“The West is drastically underestimating the power of ISIL,” Todenhofer wrote. “My impressions? That they are much stronger than we here believe. I don’t see anyone who has a real chance to stop them. Only Arabs can stop IS. I came back very pessimistic.”

“They now control land greater in size than the United Kingdom and are supported by an almost ecstatic enthusiasm the like of which I’ve never encountered before in a war zone. Every day hundreds of willing fighters from all over the world come.”

The German reporter’s critics said he was only able to set up the embed with the jihadist group because of his reputation as a fierce critic of United States policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Todenhofer called ISIL “the most brutal and most dangerous enemy I have ever seen in my life.”

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