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user-inactivated · 3820 days ago · link · · parent · post: The War Nerd: Here’s everything you need to know about “too extreme for Al Qaeda” I.S.I.S.
That makes Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan sound like the Silicon Valley of terrorism and the US allies in the area are the VC.Money was pouring in from fat armchair jihadis in Saudi, Kuwait, and the Emirates—enough to pay jihadis a first-world salary of $1,500/mo. If you had a good line of patter and a few Quranic passages memorized, you could score some investment money.