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On 9/11, Warnings That US, West Creating New Terrorist Incubator

Jeff Seldin

   WASHINGTON - Eighteen years after the September 11, 2001, terror
   attacks pushed the United States and its allies to launch the war on
   terrorism, veteran counterterrorism officials warn the coalition is
   helping history repeat itself.

   A group of 13 former officials, including two former directors of the
   U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, the former director of
   counterterror operations at Britain's MI6 and the former U.S. envoy to
   the coalition targeting the Islamic State terror group, issued an
   [1]open letter late Tuesday urging Western countries to stop ignoring
   detainees in Syria and Iraq.
   "We have borne witness to the violent rise of al-Qaida, the Taliban,
   and ISIS," they wrote, using an acronym for Islamic State.

   "We have studied the conditions that brought those groups into being
   and allowed them to grow in strength," they said. "We see some of the
   same conditions arising once again."

References

   1. https://thesoufancenter.org/open-letter-from-national-security-professionals-to-western-governments/

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