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Ted Poe: “More foreign fighters have flocked to Syria and Iraq to fight for radical Islamic groups like ISIS in the last 2 years…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2014
More foreign fighters have flocked to Syria and Iraq to fight for radical Islamic groups like ISIS in the last 2 years than fought in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last 12 years.
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Ted Poe
Republican · Texas

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Ted Poe discusses the unprecedented influx of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq.

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