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The Man Who Could Have Stopped the Islamic State
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The Man Who Could Have Stopped the Islamic State

Brian Fishman
Foreign Policy, 2016
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How did the arrest of al-Qaeda operative Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi in 2006 help the spread of Islamic State’s brand of jihad? In this compelling article, Facebook counterterrorism policy manager Brian Fishman charts Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi’s history with ISIS founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, explains how the split between al-Qaeda and its former ally developed, and explores the question of how Abd al-Hadi’s arrest may have helped to enable ISIS’s proliferation. getAbstract recommends this article to those with an interest in the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern politics.

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Acting on an anonymous tip, Turkish police arrested a man calling himself Muhammet Reza Reanjbar Rezaei on October 16, 2006. The man, whom the CIA knew as Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, was a former Iraqi soldier who helped shape Al-Qaeda’s military strategy in Iraq during the 1990s and served as “al-Qaeda’s commander for northern Afghanistan” after the attacks of September 11, 2001. When Turkish police stopped him, Abd al-Hadi was on his way to meet al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader – and “the Jordanian godfather of ISIS” – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Abd al-Hadi and Zarqawi had a long ...

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Brian Fishman is lead policy manager of counterterrorism at Facebook and the author of The Master Plan: ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory.

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