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Originally Posted by noonereal

I though Al Qaeda removed itself from any Isis association, not by chance.

ISIS is led by an Iraqi who was imprisoned by US forces during the War. You remember the guy from Jordan that cut off the head of the young American in 2004? Al-Zarqawi? He is dead now but the group he started Al Qaeda in Iraq is the direct ancestor of ISIS.


ISIS is made up primarily by Iraqis who took advantage of the power vacuum in Syria. To quote Wikipedia:

The group, in its original form, was composed of and supported by a variety of Sunni insurgent groups, including its predecessor organizations, Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) (2003-2006), Mujahideen Shura Council (2006-2006) and the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) (2006-2013), other insurgent groups such as Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura, Jaysh al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba and Katbiyan Ansar Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah, and a number of Iraqi tribes that profess Sunni Islam.
ISIS grew significantly as an organization owing to its participation in the Syrian Civil War and the strength of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.






Although there are many foreign fighters in ISIS it is obvious that this an Sunni-Iraqi militant terrorist organization.