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Are You Able To Pick The Actual Founder Of ISIS From A Line-Up?

SPOILERS: It is not Barack Obama. Sorry.

Hayes Brown BuzzFeed News World Editor

Posted on August 11, 2016, at 3:42 p.m. ET

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In case you somehow missed it, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday continued to refer to President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as "co-founders of ISIS."

Clinton's blunt response got us thinking: Do you know who really founded ISIS?

No, Barack Obama is not the founder of ISIS.

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Image: Via AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad

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Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad

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Image: Via AP Photo/Tony Dejak Hillary Clinton

Via AP Photo/Tony Dejak

Hillary Clinton

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Image: Via Reuters Harambe

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Harambe

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Image: Via AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Donald Trump

Via AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File

Donald Trump

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Image: Via AP Photo/Militant video, File Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Via AP Photo/Militant video, File

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Via AP Photo/Militant video, File

Image: Via AP Photo/Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama

Via AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

President Barack Obama

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Image: Via AFP/Getty Images Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

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Image: Via AP Photo/Matt Rourke Fmr Pres. George W. Bush

Via AP Photo/Matt Rourke

Fmr Pres. George W. Bush

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Image: Via CNN/AFP/Getty Images Osama bin Laden

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Osama bin Laden

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If you want to read up more on the actual founding of ISIS, check out this story or pick-up Pulitzer Prize-winning book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS.

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Hayes Brown is a world news editor and reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.

Contact Hayes Brown at hayes.brown@buzzfeed.com.

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