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How ISIS Ate Al Qaeda

Hostile Takeover

The Boko Haram pledge of allegiance to the so-called Islamic State was just part of the global expansion of its brand and its franchises.

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Remember Al Qaeda? Since the rise of the so-called Islamic State, still widely known as ISIS, Al Qaeda as such has started to look like the Eastman Kodak of global terror: an organization that once dominated its market and the popular imagination, but failed to embrace change and now is...

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