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Secret Of ISIS Frontline Analysis

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Terrorist attacks have dramatically increased in the world over the past century. From the attacks on 9/11 to shootings to bomb threats and bombings, these incidents have instilled fear upon American citizens and people around the world. The acts, usually can be found to be tied to huge terrorist organizations within and outside of the United States. Al Qaeda and ISIS as well has many other terrorist organizations have claimed to be responsible for certain attacks. But how do these organizations grow and get funding for these kind of meticulously planned attacks? The Secret of ISIS Frontline touches this topic, specifically talking about the rise of ISIS and how it came to be the way it was.
How did ISIS get to the strength that it is today? …show more content…

However, it also points out that at the time, it seemed like the right decision to make based on the current investigations and evidence that they had acclaimed from the middle east. In 2002, there was an opportunity to kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but the shot was not taken, because of the refusal in the administration because of the evidence on him at the time. Later, powell, the current secretary of state, glorified Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, making him well known, an ultimate goal for a terrorist organization’s leader. Now, with his successor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS has gained a total control and has become the most feared terrorist organization in the world, with tanks and resources totally outside of what any terrorist organization could hope …show more content…

With his attempts to meet with Bin Laden, as well as his development of terrorist acts. His vision, and ultimate goal was to control a territory inside of Iraq where he would build his own caliphate. At this point, the start of the ISIS nation started to grow. Within the years, without little United States government doing any physical attacking, he was able to build the infrastructure for taking control. The president, vice president and advisors continued to say that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was not a huge threat to the United States, and would have little impact. However this view changed after the invasion, in which it was too late for the United States to effectively stop it in its early stages. From that point, he put violent actions towards others, blowing up buses, attacking markets, and instilling fear in people across the world. Going from a thug to a global jihadist leader, building armies. He already had a person, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who took Abu Musab al-Zarqawi plan’s and made them ten times stronger, leading to today's horrors of ISIS. Bokas believes that they could have prevented this by taking the shot more than ten years earlier. However, it is too late and now they have to deal with

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