Democracy Now | 3 Oct 2014

We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting
How the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 that helped create the threat now posed by the Islamic State. We also discuss the role of Baathist forces in ISIS, Obama’s targeting of journalists, and the trial of four former Blackwater operatives involved in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad’s Nisoor Square.

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After 13 years, 2 wars and trillions in military spending, terrorist attacks are rising sharply: Worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents increased from less than 1,500 in 2000 to nearly 10,000 in 2013.

More than 80 percent of last year’s terrorism fatalities occurred in just five countries. Of the 17,958 people who died in terrorist attacks in 2013, 82 percent were in one of five countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Syria.

Hilary Clinton admits US funded terrorists

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