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2022-06-18 Africa North
IS gains ground in the Sahel as massacres accumulate Mali
[AlAhram] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked jihadists, whose power was once thought to be waning in the Sahel, have expanded their reach recently, marking their presence with an unprecedented series of civilian massacres.

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1816 views ]  Top
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