Long before militants rampaged across the Middle East to seize territory and declare an Islamic "caliphate," the leader of al Qaeda had an ominous warning for the head of the terror group that's now known as ISIS.
In 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri wrote a letter of advice to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was then the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the predecessor of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Zawahiri was concerned that AQI, a Sunni terror group, was alienating Sunnis in Iraq by attacking Shia civilians.
He advised Zarqawi to seek popular support from Sunnis in the country and slowly "develop" and "consolidate" an Islamic "emirate" until it grew to "the level of the caliphate" only after US forces left Iraq.
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