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January 23, 2013

Obama Has Given Up Fight Against al-Qaeda

Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph

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Either Barack Obama is living in a fantasy world, or he really does believe that the decade-long war against Islamist terror is drawing to a close, as he claimed in his inaugural address yesterday. Either way his statement will only lend encouragement to al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror cells that America is running up the white flag.

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TAGGED: Algeria, Africa, Mali, AQIM, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, United States

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