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发帖数: 1709 | 1 Christmas 2015—–Why There Is No Peace On Earth
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As one former US Army officer, Mitchell Gray, later described it,
You never see hatred like you saw on the faces of these detainees,” Gray
remembers of his 2008 tour. “When I say they hated us, I mean they looked
like they would have killed us in a heartbeat if given the chance. I turned
to the warrant officer I was with and I said, ‘If they could, they would
rip our heads off and drink our blood.’ ”
What Gray didn’t know — but might have expected — was that he was not
merely looking at the United States’ former enemies, but its future ones as
well. According to intelligence experts and Department of Defense records,
the vast majority of the leadership of what is today known as ISIS,
including its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did time at Camp Bucca.
And not only did the US feed, clothe and house these jihadists, it also
played a vital, if unwitting, role in facilitating their transformation into
the most formidable terrorist force in modern history.
Early in Bucca’s existence, the most extreme inmates were congregated in
Compound 6. There were not enough Americans guards to safely enter the
compound — and, in any event, the guards didn’t speak Arabic. So the
detainees were left alone to preach to one another and share deadly
vocational advice.
…….Bucca also housed Haji Bakr, a former colonel in Saddam Hussein’s air-
defense force. Bakr was no religious zealot. He was just a guy who lost his
job when the Coalition Provisional Authority disbanded the Iraqi military
and instituted de-Baathification, a policy of banning Saddam’s past
supporters from government work.
According to documents recently obtained by German newspaper Der Spiegel,
Bakr was the real mastermind behind ISIS’s organizational structure and
also mapped out the strategies that fueled its early successes. Bakr, who
died in fighting in 2014, was incarcerated at Bucca from 2006-’08, along
with a dozen or more of ISIS’s top lieutenants. |
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