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On 1/16/17 8:06 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote
The latest article on Syria by Tony Iltis: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/syria-new-talks-amid-shifting-alliances
Tony has the same indifference to backing up his assertions with references as Yassamine Mather: "The Syrian conflict became a magnet for Islamist extremists worldwide: veterans of other conflicts were joined by alienated youth from the West."
Really? Except for ISIS and al-Nusra to a much smaller extent, this is not true. I say this because I answered the same charge a couple of weeks ago by someone else.
It is really not that hard to do. This thing called Google works really well. You do a search on "Syria" and "foreign fighters" and you can see for yourself. I understand that the Greenleft is not the New Yorker Magazine with a staff of fact-checkers but Tony could have fact-checked himself. Of course, given that Tony is into smearing everybody in Syria except the PYD, I can understand why he didn't.
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