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Never Forget -- ISIS Terror Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Was Held at US Prison Camp Bucca in 2009 Until Obama White House Agreed to Let Him Go
2019-10-29
[GatewayPundit] Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), transformed a few terror cells on the verge of extinction into the most dangerous militant group in the world in Syria and Iraq.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Abu Dua was once held by the US in Camp Bucca Iraq.

But the Obama administration shut down the Bucca prison camp and released its prisoners, including Abu Dua in 2009.
That would be on President Obama’s watch, like so much else.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891700/Iraq-crisis-the-jihadist-behind-the-takeover-of-Mosul-and-how-America-let-him-go.html
The conclusion one is driven to is that the only way to handle the prisoners we accumulated in that period was to put them all up against the wall and shoot them — since we had no way at that time of predicting which ones were going to become vicious jihadis bent on local and world domination. And, since we are now at another such juncture, we ought to kill all of Iraq’s and the SDF’s jihadi prisoners now, to prevent the next one.
Posted by:Herb McCoy

#9  Actually he was released during the Bush administration.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2019-10-29 17:44  

#8  
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026   2019-10-29 10:46  

#7  Maybe we should have implanted a tracking device in every prisoner we released. Somewhere that it would have been difficult to remove.

Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2019-10-29 09:45  

#6  Ref #5: The self-righteous faux-humanist doctrine of catch-and-release is in itself the primary reason there is an islamic state or an al qaeda.

'Catch-and-release' helps sustain the target population, enables tracking, future source development, and guarantees the tenet of Endless Wars.

We don't make kitchen appliances, we make WAR dimmit !

Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-29 08:23  

#5  The conclusion one is driven to ... to put them all up against the wall and shoot them

I hope the lesson has been learned now. I'm not expecting much though. Good win, but too late and a failure of the system in general. It's not about Obama or Trump. The self-righteous faux-humanist doctrine of catch-and-release is in itself the primary reason there is an islamic state or an al qaeda.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-29 08:18  

#4  Obama's team had the chance to kill ISIS leader Al Baghdadi -- and they blew it

Much smaller fish. Bin Laden was the high value target (HVT) and media story needed for Soetoro's upcoming re-election. The Bin Laden operation when down on 2 May 2011.

The Camp Bucca was likely a cover for action. Let them get to know one another and release the lot (to include Bhagdadi). Monitoring them individually should produce Bin Laden's whereabouts.

Just my opinion mind you.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-29 07:51  

#3  Camp Bucca was crucial to Abu Bakr's success. It helped him refine his message and recruit his staff. Without the crucible of Bucca, ol Baghdadi would not have been able to attain the "austere religious scholar" title. That said, our DoD didn't learn a thing vis a vis detention policy or operations. What are we doing with the new detainees? Why aren't we filling up GTMO?
Posted by: Tennessee   2019-10-29 07:33  

#2  2011: Obama's team had the chance to kill ISIS leader Al Baghdadi -- and they blew it
The U.S. military had the leader of ISIS in its crosshairs years before he became the most wanted terrorist in the world — but the bureaucratic suits in Washington let him get away.

In 2011, a secretive U.S. special operations task force was orbiting a drone above a house in Baghdad, Iraq where they had new intelligence that the notorious terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had bunkered down for a meeting with his top ISIS lieutenants. A call went out from our headquarters and then back to higher-ups in the States: we’ve got him, can we take him out?

It was two weeks before they finally approved the mission. But by that time it didn’t matter when the Iraqis finally stormed the house. The al-Baghdadi I knew doesn’t stay anywhere for two weeks.

2014: The US gov knew where Kayla Meuller, James Foley, and Steven Sotloff were kept prisoner. Obama kept delaying permission for a rescue mission until after they were moved. They were murdered within a few months.
Report: Obama ‘Stalled’ After Being Told Location of ISIS-Held US Hostages
President Obama wasted nearly a month before launching a rescue mission after British intelligence provided his administration the possible location of American hostages held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports The Daily Beast.

The American captives were identified as Kayla Mueller, James Foley, and Steven Sotloff. All three are now dead.
Posted by: Pancho Flerens6518   2019-10-29 05:34  

#1  Reckoning.

Get your ass out of Martha's Vineyard and prepare to tell the nation what you knew, when you knew it and what made you think you could get away with shitting all over the Constitution and your obligation to defend it.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-29 01:56  

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