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What Saddam Gave ISIS

Seeds of the Caliphate

Newly unearthed documents shed light on the foundations of the terror group—and the crucial role Baathists played in organizing and directing a strategy for its future “caliphate.”

Jacob Siegel
Jamie Dettmer
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