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Tulsi Gabbard: “Many [non-ISIS supporting Sunni tribes] are not motivated to…”

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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard discussing cyber-security, three-state solution for Iraq, ISIS with Wolf Blitzer

Published June 11, 2015 | Video Starts at 07:45

When you look at the Sunni, the non ISIS supporting Sunni tribes, many of them Many [non-ISIS supporting Sunni tribes] are not motivated to fight against ISIS because of oppression from the central Shia government in Baghdad. Just imagine how many of those Sunni families are turned away from escaping isis, driven back into the arms of ISIS understanding that they have nowhere else to go, essentially. (07:45–07:58)

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Asserts that Sunni tribes are unmotivated to fight ISIS due to oppression by the Shia-led government.

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