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Pentagon Walks Back Promise to Attack ISIS Capital ASAP
Never Mind
When the defense secretary promised an assault on ISIS’s capital in ‘weeks,’ the Pentagon reacted with a collective WTF. Defense officials say an attack is more like six months off.
Kimberly Dozier
Nancy A. Youssef
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Nov. 3 2016
1:05AM EDT
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