"Isis: the inside story" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Dec 2014 11:12 p.m. PST |
"In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard, where men with middle-distance stares, wearing brightly-coloured prison uniforms, stood back warily, watching him. "I knew some of them straight away," he told me last month. "I had feared Bucca all the way down on the plane. But when I got there, it was much better than I thought. In every way." The jihadist, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed, entered Camp Bucca as a young man a decade ago, and is now a senior official within Islamic State (Isis) – having risen through its ranks with many of the men who served time alongside him in prison. Like him, the other detainees had been snatched by US soldiers from Iraq's towns and cities and flown to a place that had already become infamous: a foreboding desert fortress that would shape the legacy of the US presence in Iraq…"
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| jpattern2 | 16 Dec 2014 7:15 a.m. PST |
A long but interesting read. |
 Legion 4   | 16 Dec 2014 8:06 a.m. PST |
I look forward to seeing ISIS, AQ, et al will be a footnote in history … |
| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2014 10:19 a.m. PST |
Agree my friend. Amicalement
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| saltflats1929 | 16 Dec 2014 9:03 p.m. PST |
You can't kill the Devil. He just mutates into something else. |
| Legion 4 | 17 Dec 2014 8:49 a.m. PST |
True … but you can still attrite him … in payback … |
| Tango01 | 17 Dec 2014 3:08 p.m. PST |
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