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Originally Posted by Robbie
I had never heard of this group at all until they had conquered half of Iraq. 
And apparently our federal govt. were caught by surprise as well.
I guess they were too busy listening to all of our phonecalls and reading our emails and searching us at airports here in the U.S.A. to pay any attention. |
I don't know how you didn't hear about them. At first, they were loosely helping the Rebels in Syria and it was very well publicized as that was the reason Obama wouldn't arm the Syrian rebels, it was because of these guys were fighting with the rebels at the start of the Syria blow up.
At some point the ISIS guys turned on the rebels and started fighting both the rebels as Assad's forces. This was all very well covered here in the US media long before they ever started attacks in Iraq.
It's the reason McCain was having hissy fits all over the news, because Obama wouldn't send guns to the Rebels, because the ISIS guys would have got them too.