posted on Jul, 1 2015 @ 05:30 PM
It misses a lot. Like ISIS was already a group. Just by a different name Al Quida in Iraq and before that Organization of Monotheism and Jihad
while in Jordan. Overthrowing Jordan's Royal family was this groups original goal. As the group started to grow they made mistake of assassination a
US diplomat in Jordan. Suddenly and Jordan, the US and Israel saw them as threat and began to hunt them. They got out of Jordan and went to Iraq
where the had a small presence. Saddam though he could use them to fight the rebels in the south but, then he found out they also wanted to replace
him with a caliphate and he ordered them to be dealt with. They were saved by the US invasion of Iraq. Now they needed a new mission to drive out
the US and changed names. Other groups merged, outsiders joined and then Assad made a move and released a bunch of radicals he had in prison to go
fight the Americans in Iraq and in return they would get amnesty in Syria. So they went and the fought and the made contacts. Some stayed, others
went back and Assad threw them back in prison. Now we move into the early days of the Syrian Civil war, large parts of the Syrian army have joined
the rebels. And the rebels/Kurds and Islamic radicals that were fighting Assad were barely getting along. So Assad did another dump of his prisons
in hopes they would cause enough trouble that not only would they begin fighting the rebels but, Assad could pain them all as radicals.
This worked at first. Those radicals made contact with their former brothers in Iraq who had in the meant time been gaining lots of new allies among
the Sunni militias and most importantly elements of Saddam's former military giving them a genuine conventional military ability. In Iraq they had
plan to blitz the capital. And they almost pulled it off but, it failed. Now reunited with their Syrian brothers ISIS was truly born. They adopted
many of the radical groups in Syria and the ones that refused to join would pay later. Fighting has already broken out between the rebels/kurds and
the radicals. ISIS saw the US backed rebels as the biggest threat so avoided fighting Assad and focuses on the Rebels/Kurds. Assad decided to ignore
ISIS in return and also focus on the Rebel/Kurds.
The Rebels/Kurds were driven back and beaten down. ISIS then reared around and hit Assads forces and shortly after began attacking the rival radical
groups like AlQuida whos name they once used. From there ISIS grew and with good PR and some early victories became the new group for radical groups
to claim to be a part of. Suddenly Al Quida in Libya, Somalia, Boko Harem, and other groups changed names and also became ISIS. Although none of the
really have anything to do with each other. The rest is history as they say. ISIS unable to much in Iraq is slowly losing territory and on occasion
strikes out but, its days of threatening to take over are dead. Do as much to airstrikes as in the slow moving Iraqi military. In Syria ISIS is
doing a little better. Assads Syrian forces do not have much heart for fighting them but, his Hezbollas and Iranian allies do, their are just not
enough of them. The rebels/kurds have regrouped and are growing again but, they have two main enemies to focus on meaning a slow war either way.
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