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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

‘Bitter and unemployed’ officer under Saddam Hussein drew up Islamic State master plan

Author:     Agencé France-Presse
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     20 Apr 2015 at 08:46 ET
Link: ‘Bitter and unemployed’ officer under Saddam Hussein drew up Islamic State master plan
Stephan:   When you hear people say that the U.S. created ISIS you may wonder is this just political hyperbole, or is it an actual fact?  It's an actual fact, and here is one of the reasons it is true. This sad tale recounts how the utter incompetence of Paul Bremer, who was the leader chosen by the Bush-Cheney Administration to run Iraq after the occupation began, set ISIS in motion.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants waving the trademark Jihadist flag on the Syrian-Iraqi border Credit: Agencé France-Presse

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants waving the trademark Jihadist flag on the Syrian-Iraqi border
Credit: Agencé France-Presse

An ex-intelligence officer under the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was “the strategic head” behind the Islamic State 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 weekly said it had been given exclusive access to 31 documents by Bakr, including handwritten lists and charts, after lengthy negotiations with a rebel group in Aleppo, northern Syria, which came in possession of the pages after IS fled the area.

The trove “was nothing less than a blueprint for a takeover”, according to Spiegel, detailing the creation of a caliphate in northern […]

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