112 Notes

  • after 2003 the break down of state in iraw and alquda kindred movements on foreign military targets, local gocs, and civilians.



  • 2004 islamic estate got attention

  • distrubing western journalist videos posted

  • conducted by islamic state, IA operative or people leging part of group

  • Obama and later Trump coudl wiegh cuationary tails of riaq and afghansitana nd weigh other sucess


  • say US justified in air war. President Trump maintained strategy. No point in religoius identity in Iraq. Leader elminated a year later


  • groupings of IS joined.

  • First leader of islamic state was an iraqi and found chance after iraqi freedom and us left.

  • LEVEL SOF VIOLENCE DORPPED

  • EXCITED

  • IRAQ READY TO BE SELF SUFFICINT

  • MINUET he left started persucteing peopel and came out as Shia arab

  • Malaki worked ot push Sunni arabs out of gov

  • undead compromises/deals done with sunni leaders which were used to quelll the civil war in iraq.

  • al-Baghdadi, struggling to recruit Iraqi’s

    • Malaki helped him

      • more alineteed beigger his pool grew

  • eentually became most feared terrorist after muhhamed

  • captured by US forces (he was “new bin laden”)

  • “playing along wiht Syria civil war

    • more recruitment for Bahgdadi

  • Bahgdadi’s group made in iraq, butrully posted foriegners captured.

  • Others did not agree with muslim world being divided, forcus on US, Bahgdadi did not care

  • al-Zwari also on same board (with bin laden).

  • Bin laden relied on sympathy from commmunties.
    baghdadi had different ideas (left alqueda and very diffferent)

  • alqueda adn iraq fough,

  • Baghaddi grabbed places seperated by US and ran the cities himself.

  • imposed version of islam and people who folloed, both gov (bin ladena dn baghdadi diff approcahes and enever recognized as a gov by US).

  • 9-11 was alqueda operations no evidence Mullah Omar approved operations ahead of time.

  • Baghdadi rejects imagnary lines for countries (fomrs gov of his own on top of two countries).

  • about 40000 poeple in syria/ Iraq joining the cause - did draw foreigners as well about 5000 EU and 300 US

  • SHAM is historical word for aka Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant → ISIL

    • Generally will say Islamic state or IS (many have called it differently)

    • Nusra Front / Front for history.

  • Leaders disagreeing with each other (how you make it taste like that

  • Fighters upperhand in Al-Baghadi made headqouters in Syrian city Raqqa (pop abt 300thousand people).

  • As sson as able to hold whole cities [baghdadi] triggered warning in whiet house which prepared counterattack