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Terror Networks
Africa, terrorist playground
2021-01-31
[AlAhram] Observers and research centres have repeatedly issued — and escalated — warnings that it is hoped African governments will heed before it is too late

According to a 2020 Global Terrorism Index report, Africa has become "the centre of gravity" for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (IS) and al-Qaeda, losing no less than $171 billion to terrorism in the last 10 years. Terrorist groups have moved there and to some extent to South Asia from the Middle East. And, with many young people suffering from poverty, marginalisation, human rights
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Islamists have been terrorizing Central Africa for a very long time. They just have a new name for it now.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2021-01-31 09:53  

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