Daesh: Making a monster

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Through members of the Shiite Mahdi Army or the Sunni insurgency in the western districts of Baghdad, this film tells the story of the arrival in Iraq of a Jordanian, Abu Mousab Al-Zarqawi. How this Jordanian, close to Al-Qaeda, came to unite around him volunteer fighters who came from all over the planet. How he laid the foundations for what Daesh would become, a few years later: religious totalitarianism, spectacle of violence, psychopathic determination and war against insufficiently pious Shiites and Sunnis. Zarqawi fed off the inter-faith conflict: Sunnis versus Shiites. Without this, he would undoubtedly have been eliminated by the resistance. But, in the eyes of the oppressed Sunnis, it has become a rampart, a shield. The investigation also shows that the American army gave enormous visibility to Zarqawi. There was a “Psy Op” program, of psychological operations, aimed at embodying the entire Iraqi insurgency to, the document says: “provoke xenophobic sentiment”. In the fog of war, they made him star. Zarqawi, designated as enemy number one, has become a magnet for many apprentice jihadists. And in particular the Kouachi brothers who belonged to the group of young Islamists from Buttes Chaumont at the origin of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. The film also focuses on showing the fight of the volunteer brigades who rose up against Daesh in Fallujah and Mosul. Give voice to the civilian populations who lived under their yoke. Everyone agrees on one point: Iraq must relearn how to become a multicultural country. Otherwise, the venom of identity will reignite the flames of war. Even after the liberation of Fallujah and Mosul. Director: Paul Moreira