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70. summoned civilian Shias to take up arms: Farnaz Fassihi, Ali A. Nabhan, and Tamer El-Ghobashy, “Thousands Heed Call to Arms in Iraq,” Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2014.
71. “their readiness to join a holy war”: Ibid.
72. “not the group responsible for their actions”: Liz Sly, “Al-Qaeda Disavows Any Ties with Radical Islamist ISIS Group in Syria, Iraq,” Washington Post, February 3, 2014.
73. school-age children gun down its prisoners: Lizzie Dearden, “ISIS Uses Young Boys to Hunt Down and Kill Prisoners in Ruined Syrian Castle for Gory Propaganda Video,” Independent, December 5, 2015.
74. publishes annual reports for its financial backers: Allison Hoffman, “1,083 Assassinations and Other Performance Metrics: ISIS’s Year in Review,” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 18, 2014.
75. a high perception of the threat: Christoph O. Meyer, “International Terrorism as a Force of Homogenization? A Constructivist Approach to Understanding Cross-National Threat Perceptions and Responses,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 22, no. 4 (2009): 647–66.