“President Trumplooked up from the Resolute desk and said: Kill them,” recounted Sebastian Gorka, America’s new counter-terrorism chief, of Donald Trump’s orders just ten days after his inauguration, when presented with intelligence of Islamic State (IS) jihadists in a cave complex in Somalia. “He got out his iconic Sharpie pen and ticked the ‘go’ box on the operational orders.”
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Trump’s red-hot war on terror”
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