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HISTORY LESSON on ORIGIN of The Islamic State
part II
Thomas Wictor boosted @ quodverum.com this thread by Carlos Osweda:


Obama withdrew US troops from Iraq in 2011, and by 2012, the Islamic State was back in all the places where we'd driven them out.
The dynamic was exactly the same as 2003-2004. Shi'ite Iran controlled Iraq, so the Sunnis turned to terrorists to protect them.
The Syrian Civil War had started in 2011. The Islamic State sent fighters to engage Assad's Syrian Arab Army.
The Islamic State created the al-Nusra Front, which became al-Qaeda's franchise in Syria.
In 2013, Baghdadi declared the formation of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which he said included the al-Nusra Front.

However, both the al-Nusra Front and al-Qaeda rejected this proclamation.
By February of 2014, al-Qaeda had severed all ties with ISIL.
ISIL was rampaging through Iraq, and it began fighting the al-Nusra Front and other jihadists in Syria.
In June of 2014, the Iraqi armed forces collapsed. An entire division simply ran away, leaving all its heavy weapons for ISIL.
By the end of June of 2014, ISIL was the most heavily armed and wealthiest terrorist organization in human history.