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Lindsey Graham: “I think if not the proximate cause of the ISIL movement, certainly one of the primary drivers of the ISIL movement was…”

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.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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

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