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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Let's get a donation drive going for the Naxalites

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

bin laden would post in adtrw. hell he already mightve

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

HashtagGirlboss posted:

I think it has to do with that there’s a few ways to translate the Arabic word for that region and both Syria and Levant are acceptable but I haven’t read the vox.com explainer in a while so take that as you will

The problem was that there's lots of different "ISIS" groups around the Muslim world that keep cropping up in conflict zones, so you need a way to differentiate the two-bit ISIS in say Libya from the big bad ISIS in Syria & Iraq that was under Baghdadi's leadership. There was way more political impetus to DO SOMETHING about ISIS in Syria & Iraq than in Yemen or Libya, and the US government didn't want to overextend its mission if it didn't have to.

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