Obama is the Founder of ISIS

Camp Bucca, which had detained some of the Iraq War’s most radical jihadists along the Kuwait border, was the US prison that became the birthplace of ISIS.


In 2009, the U.S. military closed down Camp Bucca, its largest detention center in Iraq, as the Obama administration continued to release or hand to Iraqi authorities the thousands of people it had held since the 2003 U.S. invasion.


The closure of Camp Bucca, a sprawling complex in Iraq's southern desert near Kuwait, was a major step toward the unwinding of the $300 million-a-year U.S. detention program, as agreed under a bilateral security pact signed the previous year.


Bucca once housed as many as 14,000 detainees, the majority held for months or years without any charges made against them and with no way to defend themselves in court. Some were kept in steel shipping containers with a toilet and air conditioning. In total, around 100,000 people have been detained there by U.S. forces since 2003.


In March 2009, Camp Bucca 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. “These men weren’t planting flowers in a garden,” police chief Saad Abbas Mahmoud told The Washington Post’s Anthony Shadid, estimating 90 percent of the freed prisoners would soon resume fighting. “They weren’t strolling down the street. This problem is both big and dangerous. And regrettably, the Iraqi government and the authorities don’t know how big the problem has become.”


Camp Bucca now represents an opening chapter in the history of Islamic State. Many of its leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were incarcerated and most likely met there for the first time. According to former prison commanders, analysts and soldiers, Camp Bucca provided a unique setting for both prisoner radicalization and inmate collaboration.


Camp Bucca is said to have been formative in the development of today’s most potent jihadist forces. At least nine members of the Islamic State’s top commanders did time at Bucca, according to the terrorist analyst organization Soufan Group. Apart from the ISIS leader Baghdadi himself, who had spent five years there, the leader number two, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, as well as senior military leader Haji Bakr, (now deceased), and leader of foreign fighters Abu Qasim were also incarcerated there, Soufan said.


“Before their detention, Mr. al-Baghdadi and others were violent radicals, intent on attacking America,” wrote military veteran Andrew Thompson and academic Jeremi Suri in the New York Times. “Their time in prison deepened their extremism and gave them opportunities to broaden their following. The prisons became virtual terrorist universities: the hardened radicals were the professors, the other detainees were the students, and the prison authorities played the role of absent custodian.”


Bucca opened in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal in 2004, when pictures of U.S. soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating detainees at the west Baghdad prison shocked the world and helped fuel a vicious insurgency. Most detainees, separated according to their Sunni or Shi'ite faith, were free to move around the open-air compounds they lived in, surrounded by steel fences, razor wire and catwalks patrolled by soldiers. Sometimes, they had access to computer and sewing classes, and each one was given a copy of the Koran. Prisoners viewed as particularly dangerous were kept in isolation.


A former prison commander James Skylar Gerrond remembered many of them. He wrote on Twitter in July, “Many of us at Camp Bucca were concerned that instead of just holding detainees, we had created a pressure cooker for extremism.” He worked at the prison between 2006 and 2007, when it was glutted with tens of thousands of radicals, including Baghdadi. Many were guilty of attacking American soldiers. But many more were not; “simply being a ‘suspicious looking’ military-aged male in the vicinity of an attack was enough to land one behind bars,” according to the Times opinion piece.


As early as in 2009, many experts viewed the happening situation “as an appalling miscarriage of justice where prisoners were not charged or permitted to see evidence against them and freed detainees may end up swelling the ranks of a subdued insurgency.”


It did not come as much of a surprise when this subdued insurgency eventually caught fire. At the height of the Iraq surge in 2007, when the prison was glutted with 24,000 inmates, it seethed with extremism. Inhabitants were divided along sectarian lines to ameliorate tension, a military report said, and inmates settled their disputes with Islamic law. “Inside the wire at these compounds are Islamic extremists who will maim or kill fellow detainees for behavior they consider against Islam,” the military report said.
“Sharia courts enforce a lot of rules inside the compounds,” one soldier quoted in the report said. "Anyone who takes part in behavior which is seen as western is severely punished by the extremist elements of the compound. It’s quite appalling sometimes."


Prison commanders such as Gerrond observed the growing extremism: “There was a huge amount of collective pressure exerted on detainees to become more radical in their beliefs,” he told Mother Jones. “Detainees turned to each other for support. If there were radical elements within this support network, there was always the potential that detainees would become more radical.”


According to the terrorist analyst organization Soufan Group, the unique setting at Camp Bucca, which thrust together Saddam Hussein’s Baathist secularists and Islamic fundamentalists, set the stage for something perhaps worse: collaboration. At the prison, the two seemingly incongruous groups joined to form a union “more than a marriage of convenience”, Soufan reported.


Soufan found each group offered the other something it lacked. In the ex-Baathists, jihadists found organizational skills and military discipline. In the jihadists, ex-Baathists found purpose. “In Bucca, the math changed as ideologies adopted military and bureaucratic traits and as bureaucrats became violent extremists,” the Soufan report said.


From the ashes of what former inmates called an “al-Qaeda school,” rose the Islamic State. Indeed, when those inhabitants who were freed in 2009 returned to Baghdad, they spoke of two things only: their conversion to radicalism and revenge.







They US handed all those Camp Bucca detainees to the Iraqi side. Then they were all released on the orders from the US Government. Thus the US Government had created those ISIS leaders to begin with and then let them go do their murderous business after years of enforced cohabitation, administrative and military training, and radicalization.