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North African soccer pitches return as venues for anti-government protests

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Sep 02, 2014
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Tunisian fans raise the Islamic State flag

By James M. Dorsey

A series of incidents ranging from the killing of a player to the raising of the flag of the Islamic State, the militant jihadist group that controls a swath of Syria and Iraq, to the arrest of militant Egyptian fans signals the return of North African soccer pitches as venues for anti-governme…

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