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Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 3:32AM
Iran’s Strategic Role in the Global Jihadist Movement - J. Millard Burr*
When the last of the Soviet military departed Afghanistan in 1988-1989, thousands of well-trained “Afghan-Arab” mujahedeen already indoctrinated in Salafist concepts began to return home. Soon, from Algiers to Jakarta and from Cairo to Khartoum there emerged the backroom and storefront preachers of an Islamist future. In general, they were recognized for their…