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How isis started
The group began more than 2 decades ago as a fervid fantasy in the mind of a jordinian named Abu Masab al-Zarqawi. A onetime street thug, he arrived in Afghanistan as a mujhdieen wannabe in 1989, to late to fight the Soviet Union. He went back to jordan, and remained a fringed figure in the international violent "jihad" for much of the following decade. -
Meeting Osama Bin laden
He returned to Afghanistan to set up training camps for terrorists, and met Osam Bin Lade in 1999, but chose not to join Al Queda. -
Fall of Taliban
The fall of Taliban in 2001 caused Zarqawi to flee Iraq. There his presence went largley unnoticed until the Bush administration used it as evidence that Al Queda was in cahoots with Saddam Hussein. In reality, though, Zarqawi was a free agent looking to create his own terror orginization.
