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Zarqawi was a bloodthirsty
psychopath but, man, he knew had to run
a group like Al-Qaeda. He set up this kind of
a perfect organism. Very few people who were in Al-Qaeda knew other people
who were in Al-Qaeda. You could kill individual
parts of it, but the rest of it would just
continue. He kind of turned this thing loose,
this perfect organism, on Iraq and it was just
a gigantic killing machine. By November 2004, al-Zarqawi had taken control
of the city of Fallujah. For the Americans, an Al-Qaeda base just 40 miles from
Baghdad was a propaganda disaster
psychopath but, man, he knew had to run
a group like Al-Qaeda. He set up this kind of
a perfect organism. Very few people who were in Al-Qaeda knew other people
who were in Al-Qaeda. You could kill individual
parts of it, but the rest of it would just
continue. He kind of turned this thing loose,
this perfect organism, on Iraq and it was just
a gigantic killing machine. By November 2004, al-Zarqawi had taken control
of the city of Fallujah. For the Americans, an Al-Qaeda base just 40 miles from
Baghdad was a propaganda disaster
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Zarqawi was a bloodthirsty
psychopath
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but, man, he knew had to run
a group like Al-Qaeda.
00:00:08.006 --> 00:00:12.032
He set up this kind of
a perfect organism.
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Very few people who were in Al-Qaeda
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knew other people
who were in Al-Qaeda.
00:00:16.088 --> 00:00:18.072
You could kill individual
parts of it,
00:00:18.072 --> 00:00:20.052
but the rest of it would just
continue.
00:00:20.052 --> 00:00:24.092
He kind of turned this thing loose,
this perfect organism,
00:00:24.092 --> 00:00:28.052
on Iraq and it was just
a gigantic killing machine.
00:00:30.064 --> 00:00:32.044
By November 2004,
00:00:32.044 --> 00:00:35.012
al-Zarqawi had taken control
of the city of Fallujah.
00:00:37.016 --> 00:00:38.008
For the Americans,
00:00:38.008 --> 00:00:43.032
an Al-Qaeda base just 40 miles from
Baghdad was a propaganda disaster.
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With unique personal archive from civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, this series takes viewers closer to the realities of war and life under ISIS than they have ever been before.
