How An American Prison Camp In Iraq Became The Focal Point For The Emergence Of The Islamic State

How The Islamic State Evolved In An American Prison -- Terrence McCoy, Washington Post

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 Camp Bucca detention center, which had detained some of the war’s most radical extremists along the Kuwait border, had just freed hundreds of inmates. 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 that 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.”

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My Comment: The Americans knew that these men were dangerous (see above video) .... but the Iraqis n Baghdad were in denial of who and what these people were. If there is one thing that I have learned in my life .... it is that some people deserve to stay in jail for the rest of their lives. Camp Bucca clearly had some of these people .... but they are now free .... and they are doing the carnage and destruction that they themselves had vowed publicly that they would do.