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40
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Ibid; “Video Shows Beheading of Four Egyptians in Sinai,” Al Arabiya News, August 28, 2014,
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/28/Sinai-militants-claim-beheading-of-4-Egyptians.html
.

41
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Mirco Keilberth, Juliane von Mittelstaedt, and Christoph Reuter, “The ‘Caliphate’s’ Colonies: Islamic State’s Gradual Expansion into North Africa,”
Spiegel,
November 18, 2014,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-expanding-into-north-africa-a-1003525.html
.

42
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Ibid.

43
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Reuters, “Algeria Says It Killed Leader of ISIS-Linked Group behind French Tourist’s Beheading,” NBC News, December 23, 2014,
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/algeria-says-it-killed-leader-isis-linked-group-behind-french-n273666
.

44
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“Pakistan Taliban Sack Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid for IS Vow,” BBC October 21, 2014,
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29640242?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_news_asia&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
.

45
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Ryan Mauro, “Exclusive: Terror Org. Harbored by Pakistani Gov’t Now Backs ISIS,” Clarion Project, December 29, 2014,
http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/exclusive-terror-org-harbored-pakistani-govt-now-backs-isis
.

46
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Tim Arango, “Escaping Death in Northern Iraq,”
New York Times,
September 3, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/world/middleeast/surviving-isis-massacre-iraq-video.html?_r=1
.

47
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Meg Wagner, “‘I Had a Great Will to Live’: Lone Survivor of ISIS Massacre That Killed as Many as 560 Played Dead to Escape Terrorists,”
New York Daily News,
September 4, 2014,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/lone-survivor-isis-massacre-played-dead-report-article-1.1927471
.

48
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Ivan Watson, “‘They Would Torture You’: ISIS Prisoners Reveal Life inside Terror Group,” CNN, October 28, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/meast/syria-isis-prisoners-watson/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
.

49
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“Islamic State Executed Nearly 2,000 People in Six Months: Monitor,” Reuters, December 28, 2014,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/28/us-mideast-crisis-casualties-idUSKBN0K60EK20141228
.

50
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Sam Greenhill, “‘There Are Hundreds of Bodies with Their Heads Cut Off . . . They Put Their Heads on Display to Scare Us’: Survivors of Kobane Massacre Reveal the Brutality of ISIS Rampage in Syrian Border Town,”
Daily Mail,
October 12, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2790296/blood-curdling-screams-headless-bodies-siege-town-mail-man-sam-greenhill-reports-frontline-jihadi-squads-lie-wait-western-hostages.html
.

51
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Richard Barrett, “The Islamic State,” Soufan Group, November 2014,
http://soufangroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TSG-The-Islamic-State-Nov14.pdf
.

52
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Ibid.

53
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Duncan Gardham, “Exclusive: Grinning ISIS Commander Who Recruits Jihadis from Home Counties Taunts Britain ‘from beyond the Grave,’”
Daily Mail,
updated November 21, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2839307/Grinning-ISIS-commander-recruits-jihadis-Home-Counties-taunts-Britain-grave.html
.

54
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Cheryl K. Chumley, “Islamic State Touts $250M Year-End Budget Surplus; Opens Bank,”
Washington Times,
January 5, 2015,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/5/islamic-state-touts-250m-year-end-budget-surplus-o/
.

55
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Karen Leigh, “ISIS Makes Up to $3 Million a Day Selling Oil, Say Analysts,” ABC News, August 2, 2014,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-makes-million-day-selling-oil-analysts/story?id=24814359
.

56
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S. B., “Where Islamic State Gets Its Money,”
Economist,
January 4, 2015,
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/economist-explains
.

57
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Rukmini Callimachi, “Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror,”
New York Times,
July 29, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/africa/ransoming-citizens-europe-becomes-al-qaedas-patron.html?_r=0&gwh=95C631B187E675A4006B7E85996ACBFA&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now
.

58
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Matthew Levitt and Lori Plotkin Boghardt, “Funding ISIS (Infographic),” Washington Institute, September 12, 2014,
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/funding-isis-infographic
.

59
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S. B., “Where Islamic State Gets Its Money.”

60
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Cathy Otten, “Last Remaining Christians Flee Iraq’s Mosul,” Al Jazeera, July 22, 2014,
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/last-remaining-christians-flee-iraq-mosul-201472118235739663.html
.

61
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Sharona Schwartz, “This Is Not a One-Eyed Smiley Face, It’s a Symbol of Frightening Things Happening to Middle East Christians,” TheBlaze, September 24, 2014,
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/24/this-is-not-a-one-eyed-smiley-face-its-a-symbol-of-frightening-things-happening-to-middle-east-christians/
.

62
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Perry Chiaramonte, “ISIS Reportedly Selling Christian Artifacts, Turning Churches into Torture Chambers,” Fox News, December 23, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/22/isis-reportedly-selling-christian-artifacts-turning-churches-into-torture-1596164509/?intcmp=trending
.

63
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Tera Dahl, “After 2,000 Years, the Last Christian Is Forced to Leave Mosul,” Breitbart, July 20, 2014,
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/07/20/after-2-000-years-the-last-christian-is-forced-to-leave-mosul/
.

64
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Chris Mitchell, “Before Being Killed, the Children Told ISIS: ‘No, We Love Yeshua,’” CBN News, November 6, 2014,
http://blogs.cbn.com/jerusalemdateline/archive/2014/11/06/before-being-killed-the-children-told-isis-no-we-love.aspx
.

65
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“17-Year Old Boy Crucified by ISIS in Raqqa,” Clarion Project, October 20, 2014,
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamic-state-crucifies-17-year-old-boy-raqqa
.

66
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“Video: Father Helps ISIS Militants Stone Daughter as per Sharia,” Clarion Project, October 21, 2014,
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/video-islamic-state-stones-young-woman-accused-adultery#
.

67
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Ivan Watson, “‘Treated like Cattle’: Yazidi Women Sold, Raped, Enslaved by ISIS,” CNN, October 30, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/world/meast/isis-female-slaves/
.

68
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Aki Peritz and Tara Maller, “The Islamic State of Sexual Violence,”
Foreign Policy,
September 16, 2014,
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/16/the-islamic-state-of-sexual-violence/
.

69
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Nick Squires, “Yazidi Girl Tells of Horrific Ordeal as ISIL Sex Slave,”
Telegraph
, September 7, 2014,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11080165/Yazidi-girl-tells-of-horrific-ordeal-as-Isil-sex-slave.html
.

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“French, British IS Fighters Discuss Use of Yazidi Women as Sex Slaves,” MEMRI (Special Dispatch No. 5833), September 3, 2014,
http://www.memri.org/report/en/print8135.htm
.

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Dov Lieber, “ISIS Published Female Sex Slave Handbook,”
Jerusalem Post,
December 13, 2014,
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-published-female-sex-slave-handbook-384510
.

72
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Sharona Schwartz, “Islamic State Fighters Accused of Raping ‘Thousands of Women’ and Girls as Young as Age Nine,” TheBlaze, September 23, 2014,
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/23/islamic-state-fighters-accused-of-raping-thousands-of-women-and-girls-as-young-as-age-9/
.

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Omar Abdullah, “ISIS Teaches Children How to Behead in Training Camps,” ABC News, September 6, 2014,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-teaches-children-behead-training-camps/story?id=25303940
.

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Jennifer Newton, “Forced to Watch Crucifixions, Stonings, and Beheadings and Taught to Fire Machine Guns as Big as They Are: How Islamic State Training Camps for Children Are Swelling Its Ranks with Junior Jihadis,”
Daily Mail,
August 30, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738469/Forced-watch-crucifixions-stonings-beheadings-taught-fire-machine-guns-big-How-Islamic-State-training-camps-children-swelling-ranks-junior-jihadis.html
.

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Mangala Dilip, “ISIS Releases Jihadi Mothers’ Handbook on How to Raise Terrorists,” International Business Times, January 1, 2015,
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-releases-jihadi-mothers-handbook-how-raise-terrorists-618978
.

CHAPTER THREE: TARGET AMERICA: WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT ISIS

1
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Greg Botelho and Jim Sciutto, “Slain ISIS Jihadi among More than 100 Americans Fighting with Militants in Syria,” CNN, August 28, 2014,
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/26/world/meast/syria-american-killed/
.

2
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Maggie Ybarra, “Intel Believes 300 Americans Fighting with Islamic State, Posing Threat to U.S.: American Militants Could Commit Terrorist Attacks with Skills Acquired in Iraq, Syria,”
Washington Times,
August 26, 2014,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/26/us-citizens-joining-islamic-state-pose-major-threa/?page=all
.

3
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David Chazan, “Brussels Museum Shooting Suspect ‘Beheaded Baby,’”
Telegraph,
September 7, 2014,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11080079/Brussels-museum-shooting-suspect-beheaded-baby.html
.

4
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“The American Face of Foreign Terror Recruits,” Anti-Defamation League, September 5, 2014,
http://blog.adl.org/extremism/american-recruits-to-terror-abroad-isis
.

5
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“FBI Director: We Know the Americans Fighting in Syria,” CBS News, October 3, 2014,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-james-comey-we-know-the-americans-fighting-in-syria/
.

6
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Zeke J. Miller, “Some Americans Fighting with Terror Groups Have Returned to the U.S., Obama Administration Says,”
Time,
September 22, 2014,
http://time.com/3418455/isis-isil-barack-obama-us/
.

7
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“FBI Director: We Know the Americans.”

8
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Adam Goldman and Greg Miller, “American Suicide Bomber’s Travels in U.S., Middle East Went Unmonitored,”
Washington Post,
October 11, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/american-suicide-bombers-travels-in-us-middle-east-went-unmonitored/2014/10/11/38a3228e-4fe8-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html
.

9
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Adam Kredo, “Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States: These Individuals under Surveillance, ‘Being Tracked’ by the FBI,” Washington Free Beacon, September 19, 2014,
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dem-rep-40-american-isil-fighters-have-already-returned-to-the-united-states/
.

10
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Brian Fairchild, in e-mail interview with the author, October 2, 2014.

11
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Erick Stakelbeck,
The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government Is Deceiving You about the Islamist Threat
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 49–50.

12
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Rukmini Callimachi, “Terrorists Used New Tactic to Spare Some Muslims,” Associated Press, September 29, 2013,
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/terrorists-used-new-tactic-spare-some-muslims.

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“Sydney Siege: Two Hostages and Gunman Dead after Heavily Armed Police Storm Lindt Cafe in Martin Place,” ABC News, December 16, 2014,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-16/sydney-siege-gunman-two-hostages-dead/5969162
.

14
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Chris Spargo, “ISIS Urges Muslims to ‘Kill Disbelievers’ and Calls Secretary of State John Kerry an ‘Old Uncircumcised Geezer’ in Latest Audio Release,”
Daily Mail,
September 22, 2014,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2764736/ISIS-urges-Muslims-kill-disbelievers-calls-Secretary-State-John-Kerry-old-uncircumcised-geezer-latest-audio-release.html
.

15
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Jana Winter, “Law Enforcement Bulletin Warned of ISIS Urging Jihad Attacks on US Soil,” Fox News, September 18, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/17/law-enforcement-bulletin-warned-isis-urging-jihad-attacks-on-us-soil/
.

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