"In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama," Trump said during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama today of establishing the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. The Islamic State group began as Iraq's local affiliate of al-Qaeda, the group that attacked the U.S. on 9/11. The local group's then-leader, Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in 2006 in a U.S. airstrike but is still seen as the Islamic State group's founder. As he shifted the blame to Obama on Wednesday, he said that "crooked Hillary Clinton" was actually the group's co-founder.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 10, 2016 22:07 UTC