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Originally Posted by nik-
Some leadership as in the top leadership.
AQI was Al-Qaeda in name only. ISIS methods are Al Zarqawi methods, their ideology is his ideology. It's a direct line.
The situation in Syria obviously helped them boom, but to lay their creation on Obama is ridiculous.
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Tracing ideological lines? That's more like saying ISIS was inspired by Al-Queda than ISIS is Al-Queda. The top leadership isn't really stable. They're continually killed off and replaced.
I'd agree what you're saying is more true of the ISIS branch in Iraq, which was really just a conversion of the Al-Queda of Iraq and already had an existing infrastructure. However, in Syria, where ISIS arose first, the group largely materialized out of nothing. Al-Nusra front formed from section of the FSA. Al-Nusra front then evolved into ISIS after an influx of foreign fighters entered the country.