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On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
I think if not the proximate cause of the ISIL movement, certainly one of the primary drivers of the ISIL movement was the abuses of the Assad regime.
Said by
Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham links Assad's regime abuses to the rise of ISIL.

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