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Most of you guys seriously need to educate your selfs before trying to jump to the conclusion that IS is some new bogey man. The simple fact is IS is a by product of the Iraq war. They came to existence in 2004 and at that time had control of 4 thousand troops that were actively fighting against American and coalition forces.
They have used many names, it seems they change their name every other month but it's the same guys under the same leadership.. Perhaps some of you heard the name "Al Qaeda of Iraq" well that was these guys. They also used a half dozen other names as they fought under the Al Qaeda banner in Iraq since 2004.
If you notice since they became popular with the media they have had 3 name changes in the last few months.. First ISIL then ISIS and now just IS for Islamic State. These guys started as a militant group fighting against the occupation of Iraq, so yes in a sense America created this new Bogey Man.
They fought under Al Qaeda banner until bin Ladden was killed after that they were part of a power struggle because they were considered too extreme even for Al Qaeda. At this point the Syrian rebellion was taking off, so they re branded themselves as ISIL and moved to the Syrian conflict. At first they fought along side the rebels, but once again they were too extreme and the rebels wanted to distance themselves. After this they attacked both the rebels and the Syrian govt troops.
After quite a bit of success in Syria they once again moved to Iraq and essentially re jump started the insurgency as Iraq had in the mean time come under much better control. (Mainly due to ISIL recruiting most of the insurgents from Iraq.
Seriously this information is easy to find and they are not new bogeymen or some Whacky conspiracy theory. It takes less than 10 mins to educate yourself with this very basic information, instead of spreading uninformed bullshit.
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