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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by pjc50 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:22AM (#17566528)
I don't remember Iraq having quite such a problem with its territorial integrity before the US invaded, disbanded its army, and allowed its munitions dumps to be looted by anyone with a truck.

The June 2016 incident, the "Pulse" nightclub mass shooting, is a good case in point. The person involved wasn't "sent" to the US, he was a US-born national living in the US who'd never visited the middle East. He seems to have been radicalised by speech in the same way that other mass shooters were.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by boomboomsubban on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:01PM (#17571895)
>He seems to have been radicalised by speech in the same way that other mass shooters were.

During his calls to 911 he said directly that the US bombing campaigns in the Middle East led to his mass shooting. He seems to be a direct example of how backwards US policy is.

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