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Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

U.S. training helped mold top Islamic State military commander

Author:     Mitchell Prothero
Source:     McClatchy Newspapers
Publication Date:     September 15, 2015
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Stephan:   Yet another report on an unintended consequence arising from the monumental stupidity of the Bush Administration and their insane wars. We will be paying for the ignorance and hubris of Bush, Cheney, and the Neocons for at least a generation, and millions will suffer because the Neocons got control of the government and were empowered to act out their imperialist fantasies.
Abu Omar al Shishani

Abu Omar al Shishani

KILLIS, Turkey — The 15 Chechens looking to cross the border from Turkey to Syria didn’t strike Abdullah as particularly important or unusual.

It was early summer in 2012, and as a smuggler based in the Turkish border town of Killis, Abdullah, who’d fled his home village in Syria because of fighting on the outskirts of Aleppo, was used to secretive groups of foreigners – journalists, aid workers and many recently aspiring jihadists – hiring him to cross Turkish military lines at the border while avoiding what was then still a significant Syrian government presence in northern Syrian.

“In 2012, everyone was coming to Syria and we had too […]

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