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ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan
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ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) is much more than a terrorist group - it's a fanatic but well organized army. Rooted on the pretense of defending the Sunni minority (especially the Salafists), they share the goal of building a caliphate based on the sharia law, meaning they have jiadist dendencies against the US (and other foreign states) but against the Gulf states as well. Their strength comes from guerrillia techniques, propaganda and usage of media
ISIS begun with a man named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his mentor Al-Maqdis, thei founder of Bayt al-Imam (jihadist cell) who gained a following and eventually reached an agreement with al-Quaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Their partnership was the basis for the formation of isis. With the start of the war in Iraq, al-Zarqawi found fertile ground for recruits especially among former Baathists. Since his group was leading most (42%) of the terrorist attacks, he started gaining attention from the media (that and the videotaped beheadings). Yet at first the majority of his group's targets were Shia, so to incite civil war between Shia and Sunni. In 2006 he was killed in a bomb strikeout, but this only inspired his folllwers (al-Masai and al-Baghdadi) to found ISIS. While al-Qaddafi got kicked out of Iraq, ISIS stayed in the hiding and slowly built its network, only to show its power in Syria later on.
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) is much more than a terrorist group - it's a fanatic but well organized army. Rooted on the pretense of defending the Sunni minority (especially the Salafists), they share the goal of building a caliphate based on the sharia law, meaning they have jiadist dendencies against the US (and other foreign states) but against the Gulf states as well. Their strength comes from guerrillia techniques, propaganda and usage of media
ISIS begun with a man named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his mentor Al-Maqdis, thei founder of Bayt al-Imam (jihadist cell) who gained a following and eventually reached an agreement with al-Quaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Their partnership was the basis for the formation of isis. With the start of the war in Iraq, al-Zarqawi found fertile ground for recruits especially among former Baathists. Since his group was leading most (42%) of the terrorist attacks, he started gaining attention from the media (that and the videotaped beheadings). Yet at first the majority of his group's targets were Shia, so to incite civil war between Shia and Sunni. In 2006 he was killed in a bomb strikeout, but this only inspired his folllwers (al-Masai and al-Baghdadi) to found ISIS. While al-Qaddafi got kicked out of Iraq, ISIS stayed in the hiding and slowly built its network, only to show its power in Syria later on.