Flag of Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, predecessor of the Islamic State. Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (English: Group of Monotheism and Jihad), which may be abbreviated as JTJ or Jama’at, was a Islamic extremist Salafi jihadist terrorist group. It was founded in Jordan in 1999 and was led by Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for the entirety of its existence. During the Iraqi insurgency (2003–11), the group became a decentralized network with foreign fighters and a considerable Iraqi membership. On 17 October 2004, al-Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, and the group became known as Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq or Tanzim). After several mergers with other groups, it changed its name several times until it called itself Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2006.

 

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• CATEGORIES SEARCH:: Jihadist, Islamist Extremist/Terror Org

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