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| Report: Officer under Saddam Hussein Drew Up Islamic State Master Plan | |
| 2015-04-21 | |
| [AnNahar] An ex-intelligence officer under the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was "the strategic head" behind the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and drew up the blueprints for the jihadists' capture of northern Syria, German weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday. Former colonel Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, who was better known as Haji Bakr and was killed by Syrian rebels in January 2014, "had been secretly pulling the strings at IS for years", according to the magazine.
The trove "was nothing less than a blueprint for a takeover", according to Spiegel, detailing the creation of a caliphate in northern Syria, complete with meticulous instructions for espionage activities, murder and kidnapping. The magazine said Bakr was "bitter and unemployed" after the American decision to dissolve the Iraqi army in 2003. Between 2006 and 2008 he was held in the U.S. military's Camp Bucca and Abu Ghraib prison. In the years that followed his influence grew in jihadist circles, Spiegel reported, and in 2010 Bakr and a group of other former Iraqi intelligence officers placed holy man His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... at the head of the Islamic State group. The move was reportedly designed to give the group a religious dimension. The weekly quotes an Iraqi journalist as saying career officer Bakr was himself "a nationalist, not an Islamist". | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 When both Arial Sharon & Saudi king give you, virtually, the same advice "Choose a 'nice' Sunni general and appoint him the new headman."---you ought to listen. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-21 04:30 |
| #2 After the Saddam's fall, the dismantling of Iraqi army was a cockup of the first order. There were senior military personnel in and out of the Pentagon that advised against it, but the dismantling took place anyway. Of course nothing coming forth from the Center for Lessons Learned, unless I've missed something. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-21 04:25 |
| #1 And Saddam was working on others too. It was going to be all of this and more, if you did not put a cap on Iraq. And keep it. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-04-21 01:25 |