Lucy Hamilton
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USMB seriously needs a 'Bullshit' Icon to slap on posts....There was no Al Qaeda or ISIS in Iraq before the US invasion.
Al-Qaeda - Wikipedia
- Al-Qaeda was founded in 1988
Iraq War - Wikipedia
- The Iraq war began in 2003
Al-Qaeda came directly out of the Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen, which Osama bin-Laden was involved with.
Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen - Wikipedia
ISIS though did NOT exist UNTIL 2013, BUT prior to 2013 most of those who formed ISIS had been in Al-Qaeda in Iraq, they only changed their name when they got involved in the Syrian situation, calling themselves Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham * and also Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, both of which have the abbreviation of ISIS and then they also have referred to themselves as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant which is abbreviated as ISIL....they also of course are just known as Islamic State which is abbreviated as IS.
* Sham is sometimes referred to as the area that was dominated by Damascus, also the Arabic word al-Sham by itself also can refer directly the actual city of Damascus.
So let's go back PRIOR to ISIS/ISIL forming in 2013.
What we now know as ISIS/ISIL began in 1999 as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad and it's leader was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
In 2004 AFTER the ill-advised invasion of Iraq, JTJ and al-Zargawi pledged alligiance to Osama bin-Laden and Al-Qaeda, in 2004 they then all went into Iraq renaming themselves Al-Qaeda in Iraq and fought with other centralised and decentralised Iraqi Insurgency organisations, this went on from 2004-2011....in 2013 Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad aka Al-Qaeda in Iraq changed their name to ISIS/ISIL and also IS.
So if it hadn't of been for the ill-advised invasion of Iraq there would NOT be ISIS/ISIL/IS, because they came FROM that ill-advised invasion and INTO Syria.
"Following al-Zarqawi's pledge of allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network on 17 October 2004, the group became known as al-Qaeda in Iraq or Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn.[2][5][6][7] After several rounds of name changes and mergers with other groups, the organization is now known as Islamic State (IS)."
Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad - Wikipedia
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - Wikipedia
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