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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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THE SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL — Jordanian-born terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi issued a sternly-worded message in the wake of presidential campaign rhetoric suggesting that either George W. Bush or Barack Obama founded ISIS.
"Look, I got really upset at Obama when he made those 'you didn't build that' comments, since, contrary to what that Kuffar thinks, I did, in fact, build AQI," Zarqawi said. "But this is a direct challenge on my ISIS bonafides. Just look at the founding documents with the Iraqi secretary of state's office, for Allah's sake."
"I worked hard throughout my life to build a new terrorist organization from the ground up," said Zarqawi, who founded Jama'a al-Tawid al-Jihad before renaming the group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which eventually became the terrorist group known as "ISIS" years after Zarqawi's death in a 2006 airstrike.
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