Iraqi Officer Under Saddam Masterminded The Rise Of ISIS, Reports Spiegel
Source: Huffington Post and Reuters
A former intelligence officer for the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was the mastermind behind Islamic State's takeover of northern Syria, according to a report by Der Spiegel that is based on documents uncovered by the German magazine.
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The documents were the work of a man identified by the magazine as Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein's air defense force, who went by the pseudonym Haji Bakr.
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"It was not a manifesto of faith, but a technically precise plan for an 'Islamic Intelligence State' -- a caliphate run by an organization that resembled East Germany's notorious Stasi domestic intelligence agency."
The story describes Bakr as being "bitter and unemployed" after U.S. authorities in Iraq disbanded the army by decree in 2003. Between 2006 to 2008 he was reportedly in U.S. detention facilities, including Abu Ghraib prison.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/19/isis-saddam-spiegel_n_7095764.html
ISIL is nothing more than a textbook example of blowback from the invasion of Iraq.
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comes to small places. "Truth is incontrovertible: malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is".....Winston Churchill.
This is what happens when you invade a country like Iraq ....chaos!
Well I guess it makes sense now that one of disbanded ba'athists bring all his experience and knowledge of being in Saddam's government to ISIS. They want their power back and they're willing to go along with Sunni fundamentalists to do it. Without them ISIS couldn't fight their way out of a brown paper bag!
They want to rid of anyone who doesn't agree with them but especially the Shias and Iran is on top of the list of places for them to destroy. They're going to be so disappointed when the U.S. Does it for them.
I'm a Canadian and this is my first time on DD. I just wanted to say that I was soooooo proud of the United States when Obama managed to get a framework for a deal pertaining to Iran's nuclear program. I'm just now so depressed with what those disgusting Rupublicans are doing now. I can't believe how fucking myopic they are. Don't they realize this not just about them. So many countries are pissed off because they put their fair share of work into this deal
