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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:20 PM Nov 2015

Is there any al-Qaeda DNA in Daesh/ISIS? [View all]

Funny how al-Qaeda seems to have slipped all the way out of the Top 40 since the "Daeshbags" (h/t eShirl ) came along. Did they just change their name like PNAC did to the Foreign Policy Initiative? Or did some al-Qaeda people jump ship?

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Is there any al-Qaeda DNA in Daesh/ISIS? [View all] KamaAina Nov 2015 OP

AQI = ISI / AQIS = ISIS CJCRANE Nov 2015 #1

Same shit, different pile nt geek tragedy Nov 2015 #2

ISIS is the successor of AQI and Sunni groups that fought them, as well as Libyans in Syria leveymg Nov 2015 #3

In 1999 al Qaeda gave birth to what in now Isis 4139 Nov 2015 #4