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The Pakistani Taliban's Dubious Syrian Claims

Jul 15, 2013 | 15:19 GMT

The Pakistani Taliban's Dubious Syrian Claims
Jihadists train near Aleppo, Syria, on July 19.

(BULENT KILIC/AFP/GettyImages)

Summary

A claim by the Pakistani Taliban that they have sent members to Syria to participate in the jihadist insurgency there is unsurprising and unsubstantial. The distances involved and the weakened state of the Pakistani militant group mean it would be hard-pressed to mount much more than a public relations campaign in Syria.

Pakistani militants' claims that their operatives are assisting jihadist forces in Syria are largely propaganda....

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