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The Fourth War: My Lunch with a Jihadi

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As a Marine Captain in Iraq, Elliot Ackerman lost men fighting jihadis, but then he found himself breaking bread with a former adversary in a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey.

Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman
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Elliot Ackerman

Elliot Ackerman

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