<p>When you keep repeating that the worst is about to happen, it finally does. The threat of terrorism has caught up with us. By invading Iraq in 2003 and not intervening in Syria since 2011, we have helped fuel radicalization. And we continue to fuel it, by making diplomatic compromises with dictat
Jihad Academy: The Rise of Islamic State
- Publisher
- Fayard
- Year
- 2015
- Category
- Fiction
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