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How stopping USAID helps ISIS prisoners

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Gary A Schlueter
Feb 15, 2025
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You know that expression—throwing out the baby with the bath water? The bath water is the Trump administration’s stopping USAID programs around the world; one of the babies in danger of being thrown out in northern Syria is around 50,000 ISIS terrorists currently enclosed in al Hol and other prison camps.

Cutting off USAID funding if conti…

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