Ting. Ting. Ting.
As with some others here in the past, you simply refuse to process my main point. I could show you some threads where it got to be like pounding tool steel with a ball-peen hammer.
Read Raoul's link, and then check out the chronology of Ansar Al-Islam, discussed in the article. It was founded in northern Iraq in December of 2001.
As for "how far I'll go," I didn't haul up something from a 2003 data file and format it.