The original The Armed Islamic Group (GIA), based in Algeria, was founded in the early 1990s by veterans of the war in Afghanistan. The Armed Islamic Group (AIG) of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was formed in 2003, also from foreign fighters from Afghanistan. By 2002 the GIA had splintered into several groups and the central organization was esstentially dissolved. It is not known if the Iraqi AIG was one of the splinter groups or simply inspired by the GIA. The AIG rejected any affiliation with Saddam Hussein and his Sunni leadership and was the first Iraqi group aligning itself with bin Laden. In 2014 radical Sunni militants aligned with al-Qaeda moved to regain control of Falluja and Ramadi, setting fire to police stations and freeing prisoners. The Shi'a government vowed to regain control of those cities and to eliminate the Sunni element.VideoVideo: 2014 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, has taken control of large sections of two western…
Armed Islamic Group (AIG) of Al-Qaeda in Fallujah and Ramadi
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