''Ahmad Fadhil was eighteen when his father died in 1984. Photographs
suggest that he was relatively short, chubby, and wore large glasses. He
wasn’t a particularly poor student—he received a B grade in junior
high—but he decided to leave school. There was work in the garment and
leather factories in his home city of Zarqa, Jordan, but he chose
instead to work in a video store, and earned enough money to pay for
some tattoos. He also drank alcohol, took drugs, and got into trouble
with the police. So his mother sent him to an Islamic self-help class.
This sobered him up and put him on a different path. By the time Ahmad
Fadhil died in 2006 he had laid the foundations of an independent
Islamic state of eight million people that controlled a territory larger
than Jordan itself..''
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