Originally Posted by SJGulitti
...Der Spiegel's man found out, through an analysis of captured documents exhibited in the article, that ISIS is the creation of a former Iraqi Air Force Officer...
...or he could have watched PBS' Frontline which did the research and he could have cribbed from them - it would have been way easier.

It turns out that ISIL is Saddam's old army. Who could have predicted that after L. Paul Bremmer fired the entire Army three months into the U.S.'s invasion of Iraq as Provisional Act No. 2 in June 2003.

PBS | The Rise of ISIS


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