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Pentagon Destroyed Islamic State Cash By Investing In F-35

Pentagon Destroyed Islamic State Cash By Investing In F-35

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Oct 05, 2022
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WASHINGTON — In addition to bombing multiple Islamic State financial targets last week, officials announced they destroyed "hundreds of millions of dollars" of cash by investing it in the F-35 program.

The money, according to senior leaders at the Pentagon, was $500 million of the $1 billion originally budgeted to train thousands of fighters in Syria. Th…

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