ISIS has been an interesting entity for conflict watchers. The group’s lightning-fast emergence and equally impressive consolidation of a working structure, the disproportionate barbarism that they displayed, or their superhuman ability in establishing military dominance over a sizeable chunk of Iraq and Syria in record time, remained lined with suspicion in the minds of those who were watching them: these Toyota-driving-thugs were not their own masters; they had some solid backing.…

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