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Camp #Bucca: The US prison that became the birthplace of Isis

In March 2009, in a wind-swept sliver of Iraq, a sense of uncertainty befell the southern town of Garma, home to one of the Iraq War’s most notorious prisons. The sprawling detention center called Camp Bucca, which had detained some of the Iraq War’s most radical jihadists along the Kuwait border, had just freed hundreds of inhabitants. Families rejoiced, anxiously awaiting their sons, brothers and fathers who had been lost to Bucca for years. But a local official fretted.

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Fabius toujours bloqué sur la fable « le régime syrien a fabriqué Daech » : After Kobane, saving Aleppo. Le même Fabius qui trouvait, fin 2012, que ses copains d’Al-Nusra, « sur le terrain ils font du bon boulot ».
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laurent-fabius-aleppo-is-the-last-stand-for-a-democratic-syria/2014/11/03/3c027c22-637f-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html

The dictator prefers to deliver Aleppo to terrorist atrocities, even if that means allowing Daesh to flourish on Aleppo’s eastern edge. Aleppo’s residents will then pay for Daesh’s setback in Kobane.

In fact, Assad and Daesh are two sides of the same barbaric coin. Assad largely created this monster by deliberately setting free the jihadists who fueled this terrorist movement. This was part of his underhanded effort to appear, in the eyes of the world, as the sole bulwark against terrorism in Syria. But the facts contradict this charade. How many times has the regime — so ready to attack its own people — bombed Daesh? Did it ever try and save Kobane from disaster, even while the People’s Democratic Party, or PYD, fought at its side elsewhere? No, it chose to do nothing.

For these two faces of barbarism share a common aim: to destroy the moderate opposition. Thus, their choice to target its bastion, Aleppo, which represents the only political alternative capable of preserving the prospect of an open, pluralistic, democratic Syria — the Syria that both the regime and Daesh reject.

Pour Fabius et al-Nusra :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/284012

Pour la fable de la libération des jihadistes qui aurait « créé » Daech, voir par exemple l’échange entre Aron Lund, Joshua Landis et Thomas Pierret :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/283373

The mysterious link between the #US military prison #Camp_Bucca and #ISIS leaders
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/mysterious-link-between-us-military-prison-camp-bucca-and-isis-le

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A flag of the #Islamic_State (IS) #IS seen on the other side of a bridge at the frontline of fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Islamist militants in Rashad, on the road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, on September 11, 2014. (Photo: AFP-JM Lopez) A flag of the Islamic State (IS) is seen on the other side of a bridge at the frontline of fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Islamist militants in Rashad, on the road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, on September 11, 2014. (Photo: AFP-JM Lopez)

Beyond conspiracy theories – which are often justified in an era where everything appears as though it is part of a plan or a scheme – we have the right to ask why the majority of the leaders of the Islamic State (IS), (...)

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En Irak, des Américains remplacent des Américains. C’est qu’on appelle le retrait américain d’Irak.

Camp Bucca in Iraq, Once a Prison Base, Now Houses a Hotel
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/middleeast/camp-bucca-in-iraq-once-a-prison-base-now-houses-a-hotel.html

As the military leaves, the oil-services companies Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger and Weatherford International are expanding operations, hopeful of economic growth. General Electric opened three offices in Iraq in November, a month before the last American soldier is to march out.

At the former American prison camp, for example, oil companies are considering renting space on a permanent basis for employees, according to the Kufan Group.

“Exxon loved it,” Mr. Latif said of the former Camp Bucca. Their representatives visited half a dozen times, he said, to examine the security arrangements, taking in the sprawl of razor wire and concrete walls and exclaiming, “Oh boy, it’s excellent!”