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  • Bozz10mm

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    After Al Qaeda, ISIS almost immediately popped on to the scene. Who will emerge as the next new global terrorist power? It won't be long, wait and see.
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    Shotgun Jeremy

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    Al Qaeda didn't go away at first. ISIS started out as a cell within Al Qaeda, but they were doing things so fucked up that even Al Qaeda denounced them (which is pretty crazy and why I remember this). Once Al Qaeda denounced them, that's when they REALLY took off. I don't know if Al Qaeda ever really dropped off the map, but I know ISIS quickly took the spotlight from them. I remember for a little while there, we were kind of sitting back on occasion and letting Al Qaeda and ISIS take each other out. I've wondered what ever ultimately happened to Al Qaeda.
     

    Dredens

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    Al Qaeda didn't go away at first. ISIS started out as a cell within Al Qaeda, but they were doing things so fucked up that even Al Qaeda denounced them (which is pretty crazy and why I remember this). Once Al Qaeda denounced them, that's when they REALLY took off. I don't know if Al Qaeda ever really dropped off the map, but I know ISIS quickly took the spotlight from them. I remember for a little while there, we were kind of sitting back on occasion and letting Al Qaeda and ISIS take each other out. I've wondered what ever ultimately happened to Al Qaeda.

    The "founder" of ISIS required all members to make personal pledges of loyalty to him outside the Al-Qaeda leadership, then demanded the Al-Qaeda leadership do so. That's one of the primary reasons for their eventual expulsion from the administrative structure of Al-Qaeda. In addition to the even more radicalized stuff they were trying to pull of course.
     

    Dredens

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    As I understand it, their command-and-control network has basically been obliterated. That's not to say all the leadership has necessarily been destroyed, just their ability to coordinate and control has been brought to nil. They've been pushed back to having basically no real territory left. The problem is that you could kill every ISIS member with a magic bomb right now and all it would take is for someone else to declare allegiance to their "brand" for it to come back, so it's hard to say. It's also difficult to track in real time everything really happening there because of the sheer amount of factions and forces (often with individual units switching sides depending on the day), and with lines being pushed back and forth. It's been a cluster there for a long time, and that doesn't show any real signs of changing soon.
     
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