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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Al-Baghdadi blows himself up in ISIS VA parking lot

SYRIA — After being denied care for serious mental health issues at his local ISIS VA hospital, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked out to the parking lot and detonated an explosive vest.

“He was paranoid that armed men in black helicopters were coming to take him away,” said ISIS psychologist Dr. Ramul Omar. “Which in retrospect was absolutely true, and we made a huge mistake by not believing him.”

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