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Al-Qaeda Unleashed Against Syria and Iraq With Acceptance of the West

Al-Qaeda Unleashed Against Syria and Iraq With Acceptance of the West

Al-Qaeda Unleashed Against Syria and Iraq With Acceptance of the West

By Pepe Escobar

July 26, 2013 "Information Clearing House -   The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – the official denomination of al-Qaeda in Iraq – does not even pretend to be not responsible for the relentless bombing, political assassination and mostly sectarian horror unleashed across Iraq during Ramadan.

But this is exactly what they’re doing, with relish; throwing arrays of crude bombs made with fertilizer enhanced with ball bearings, manipulating a small army of foreign suicide bombers. Most of these, by the way, crossed the desert from Syria.

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