What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?
…at his motivations were largely personal rather than ideological. Like the Orlando shooter, however, he might have wanted to brand his actions as ISIS-related in order to give them a degree of legitimacy. And ISIS followers were equally eager to give it their label. In terrorism, as in many other aspects of public life, branding is everything. My thanks to my research assistant, Mufid Taha, and to the research support of the “Ending Jihadist Confl…
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