Incorrect. The founder of ISIS / Daesh was a former Baathist general under Sadaam in Iraq. He saw the conflict in Syria as a way to gain leverage, but it most d

Incorrect. The founder of ISIS / Daesh was a former Baathist general under Sadaam in Iraq. He saw the conflict in Syria as a way to gain leverage, but it most definitely did not bring it to us. He was already planning to build ISIS, and just simply leaped at the opportunity when the Syrian civil war began. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-files-show-structure-of-islamist-terror-group-a-1029274.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file... Edit: Another great article on this: http://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401655832/secret-papers-reveal-islamic-states-structure http://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401655832/secret-papers-reveal...