"Abd al-Nasser al-Qardash speaks" Topic
1 Post
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please don't call someone a Nazi unless they really are a Nazi.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Modern Media Message Board
Areas of InterestModern
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Featured Showcase ArticleYou wanted more photos of the Santa Claws Gang? Here is Santa and two of his companions.
Featured Workbench Article
Featured Profile Article
Featured Book Review
Featured Movie Review
|
Tango01 | 06 Jun 2020 3:54 p.m. PST |
"As the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria no longer controls territory, news of the group's destruction of cultural heritage and trafficking in antiquities has faded from the headlines. The group is still active, and has been waging a rural insurgency in Iraq and Syria for the past year and half. Meanwhile, the loss of the physical caliphate has allowed historians a first chance to pick through its rubble. Recently, Iraqi terrorism scholar Husham al-Hashimi was able to sit for a four-hour interview with Abd al-Nasser al-Qardash (real name: Taha Abd al-Raheem Abdallah Bakr al-Ghassani), the highest ranking leader of ISIS currently in Iraqi custody. Qardash made several statements about ISIS and antiquities trafficking which require closer examination. al-Qardash was born in Mosul and grew up in Iraq's Turkmen community. Inaccurate reports about his background have circulated for some time, including claims that he was a major general in the Iraqi Army under Saddam Hussein and that he served time in the infamous ISIS breeding ground of Camp Bucca in the early 2000s.[1] More recent information reveals he was in fact a civil engineer who was arrested in 2005 and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib…" Main page gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com Amicalement Armand |
|