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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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This is wrong. AQI, which by that point was Islamic State in Iraq send people into Syria to fight and started expanding their ranks. These people that went into Syria named themselves Al-Nusra, but they ended up splitting off from ISIS when ISIS went gangbusters. The root of this is still ISI, which is AQI. Syria was practice, not the birth.