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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Ben Hubbard, New York Times, Feb. 3/4, 2014
ISTANBUL — Al Qaeda’s central leadership has officially cut ties with a powerful jihadist group that has flourished in the chaos of the civil war in Syria and that rushed to build an Islamic state on its own terms, antagonizing the wider rebel movement [....]
The break between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, announced late Sunday on jihadist websites, served both sides, said William McCants, a scholar of militant Islam at the Brookings Institution. Al Qaeda cut ties with a group that was besmirching the Qaeda name among other militants, while the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria bolstered its image as a force to reckon with.
“ISIS is now officially the biggest and baddest global jihadi group on the planet,” Mr. McCants said. “Nothing says ‘hard-core’ like being cast out by Al Qaeda.” [....]
American intelligence and counterterrorism analysts said the group’s increasing economic independence — largely through revenue from commandeered oil fields, border tolls, extortion and granary sales — had allowed it to thrive without links to Qaeda leaders in Pakistan [....]
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