Terror Groups ‘Creature of US’: Analyst

- Terror groups ‘creature of US’: Analyst
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Terrorist groups operating in countries around the world are a “creature of the United States” and have grown with every US intervention, according to an activist and radio host in New York.
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“The growth of these terror groups and the expansion of their reach beyond individual nations… is directly related to US interventions,” Don DeBar told Press TV on Wednesday.
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Terror groups, like al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan are a “creature of the United States” and their reach and expanse “has grown with every US intervention,” DeBar noted. He said the same phenomenon occurred in Iraq, Libya and Yemen following US military campaigns in those countries.
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Earlier this week, the top US commander in Afghanistan expressed concern about terrorists making a comeback unless American and Afghan forces keep the pressure on them. “We have significantly degraded the al-Qaeda capability, but we believe if we don’t keep pressure on that, it’s only a matter of time, it will be able to grow very quickly,” US Army General John Campbell said.
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However, DeBar argued that the statement by the US commander “doesn’t make any sense from any angle, first from the point of view of history.”
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The war in Afghanistan, the longest conflict in America’s history, has brought nothing but regret and fatigue, taking the lives of over 2,300 US troops and wounding over 20,000 as well as costing US taxpayers more than $1 trillion.
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