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Australia Bans Travel To Syrian Province
2014-12-05
[Ynet] Australia's foreign minister used tough new counterterrorism laws Thursday to make it a criminal offense for Australians to travel to the Syrian province of al-Raqqa because of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 movement's hold on the war-ravaged region.

The province is the first region in the world to be subjected to such a travel ban under the legislation.
Possibly because provinces don't generally have their own passport stamps, so it's difficult to prove a person went to one?
Posted by:trailing wife

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