The Rise of ISIS

00:00:18 >>Tonight onFrontline...

00:02:29 Maliki presented it as a great accomplishment--

00:04:37 >> And it took a lot of people by surprise.

00:06:37 This was common.

00:08:51 >> Remember, by the time the Americans left Iraq

00:11:14 but it quickly became a major force.

00:13:16 >> Anyone, Maliki and the gangs of the militias of Maliki

00:15:20 to do the right thing.

00:17:45 >> SMITH: 60 miles away in Baghdad

00:20:24 that in a large, ungoverned space, having Al Qaeda

00:22:49 Without U.S. arms

00:25:27 >> SMITH: So these are people, young men who sat

00:27:35 for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

00:29:50 in military aid.

00:32:01 to tear down the year-old protest camp.

00:34:20 >> "Tell Maliki I have very, very serious concerns.

00:36:33 You know, these were people

00:39:12 "And we're not going to participate

00:41:36 It's actually not.

00:44:12 They know how to set up defensive positions.

00:46:44 >> This kind of bloodlust is psychosis.

00:49:00 gone well in the past.

00:50:56 is the appropriate way forward.

02:00:01 Maliki would strike once again