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family tree.. (or just a large weed.. )

Steve

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sometimes a weed gets out of hand.. but the branches or tentacles of all these groups seems intertwined..

Zarqawi, a Jordanian who had been a convicted thief and sex criminal before turning to radical Islam, created his own group, drawing from his country and the region known in Arabic as al-Sham, or the Levant—that is, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. He called his force at that time the Army of the Sham.

The crippled condition of Al Qaeda’s core after 9/11 left the field free for Zarqawi to wage his own brand of jihad. Guided by certain Islamist thinkers who believed that attacking Shiites would draw Sunnis to their cause, Zarqawi concentrated his violence on native Iraqi Shiites, not the American military. He began his campaign in August, 2003, just five months after the American invasion, with a car-bomb attack on the Imam Ali Mosque, in Najaf. As many as a hundred and twenty-five Shiite Muslims were killed at Friday prayers, including Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, who might have provided moderate leadership to the country. Zarqawi also targeted Iraq’s professionals—the lawyers, teachers, doctors, and academics who together formed a fragile social matrix.

Zarqawi was killed by an American bomb, in 2006. American forces, along with a movement of Sunni tribes who rejected Al Qaeda, called the Awakening, bottled up his movement in Iraq.

but the revolution in Syria created a new opportunity.

what did Bush say,.. the fight was like wack-a-mole?

you hit them hard in one spot and they just pop up at another?
 

Steve

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quick question.. when did the Syrian revolution begin?

from the New Yorker
but the revolution in Syria created a new opportunity.

The movement is led now by an elusive figure named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Reflecting its expanding turf, A.Q.I. changed its name to the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham. Zawahiri urged ISIS to stay out of Syria, leaving it to the designated Al Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra. Characteristically, ISIS engaged in shocking brutality, even against rival Islamist groups. In 2013, it took over the provincial capital of Raqqah, in northern Syria, on the banks of the Euphrates—the first real victory in the rebellion—and once again drew many foreign jihadists to its cause. Zawahiri couldn’t tolerate the insubordination of Baghdadi’s troops, and in February of this year Zawahiri booted ISIS out of the Al Qaeda consortium. By that time, ISIS had returned to Iraq and taken over Fallujah, the first major city in the country to fall under its rule.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/isiss-savage-strategy-in-iraq

Did the writer and editor forget to check the or was this guy not killed in 2006?


this guy seems to have used up at least 4 of his lives already..





Note:.. often we have Mexican criminals that are let go by our police because they use different names or aliases,.. the surname and changes to the name seem common in third world areas..

either way,.. this savagery started long before Sept 11th,.. and while it was contained,.. Obama's pull out of Iraq, and Obama's arab spring reignited the movement..

The middle east is in chaos thanks to al-quida or whatever else you want to call the radical islamic movement.
 

Traveler

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and while it was contained,.. Obama's pull out of Iraq, and Obama's arab spring reignited the movement..

The middle east is in chaos thanks to al-quida or whatever else you want to call the radical islamic movement.


Why does it keep sounding like a Jihad orchestrated from the Whitehouse?
 
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