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I've been saying for a while that we created ISIS....or shall i say that we SURELY created the conditions for it by yet again interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign nation thereby making a bad situation much worse.
This piece/interview in the Guardian by Martin Chulov features an interview with Abu Ahmed, who explains how they formed ISIS right under our noses by using Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (ISIS leader), who tricked the Americans into believing that he was a peaceful Sunni leader. This excerpt is unbelievable:
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Abu Ahmed was imprisoned in a US-run detention center in southern Iraq called Camp Bucca in 2004. That's where he met al-Baghdadi, among others who would later form ISIS. According to Ahmed, Baghdadi managed to trick the US Army into thinking he was a peacemaker, all the while building what would become ISIS right under their noses:
"He was respected very much by the US army," Abu Ahmed said. "If he wanted to visit people in another camp he could, but we couldn’t. And all the while, a new strategy, which he was leading, was rising under their noses, and that was to build the Islamic State. If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no IS now. Bucca was a factory. It made us all. It built our ideology."
Pathetic. And it gets worse:
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When they entered the US-run prison, Baghdadi and many of the others were members of small Sunni militia groups. But the organizing space allowed them to unify under the name al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), led at the time by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"We could never have all got together like this in Baghdad, or anywhere else," Abu Ahmed says, sounding almost grateful to the Americans. "It would have been impossibly dangerous. Here, we were not only safe, but we were only a few hundred meters away from the entire al-Qaeda leadership."
Congratulations my fellow Americans. You should be proud.
I will say this for a certainty if we had let Saddam and Assad alone there would be no ISIS.
Of course not.
But of course, we Americans, who know NOTHING about the region, it's people, culture or religious traditions, knew what's best for them so we interfered and made everything much worse.
But of course, we Americans, who know NOTHING about the region, it's people, culture or religious traditions, knew what's best for them so we interfered and made everything much worse.
Congrats.
If I knew what I know now I would have voted for Pat Buchanan in 2000.
I will say this for a certainty if we had let Saddam and Assad alone there would be no ISIS.
This is something Bush Sr. realized, but Bush Jr. couldn't grasp.
These 2 tyrants kept warring factions in check, without them, there is a power vacuum that leads to the situation we are seeing right now.
The absolute cowards in the farce known as the " Arab League" should be dealing with this, NOT the USA.
How many more lives and billions of dollars are going to be wasted on the cowardly Iraqi army? Yes the one that throws done their arms and run off like little frightened schoolgirls. Billions wasted training this sham military force.
right - and if there was no Israel, there would be no Islamic terror either.
I also have some beachfront property for sale in Oklahoma.
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