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The Rochester Sentinel
February 1, 2018
... terrorists only to meet them again on the battlefield, including the ISIS leader, (Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi, who we captured, who we had, who we released.” THE FACTS: Trump is correct that al-Baghdadi had been released after being detained at Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca, U.S. detention facilities in Iraq.
The Independent
February 1, 2018
It was from the US prisons at Camp Bucca that most of the Isis leaders eventually emerged, with a renewed hatred of a country that committed the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and beyond. In 2015, President Obama admitted that Isis was an “unintended consequence” on the invasion. Donald Trump hasÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
February 1, 2018
On Tuesday, Trump cited former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an example of someone who engaged in terrorist activity after being released from the prison, though reports have illustrated that Baghdadi's time at a U.S. military camp Bucca along the Kuwait border may have deepened his extremism.
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 1, 2018
He was held at Camp Bucca, a prison facility in Garma, Iraq, along the country's border with Kuwait. But back then he was just Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Al Badry, a civilian detainee. He was one of some 80,000 detainees who were held at one of four detention facilities throughout Iraq. They were a mix of pettyÃÂ ...
Business Insider
January 31, 2018
The Facts: Trump is correct that al-Baghdadi had been released after being detained at Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca, US detention facilities in Iraq. But Trump made his comment while announcing that he had signed an executive order to keep open the controversial US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Guardian
January 30, 2018
Obama's adversaries had claimed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been released from an Iraqi prison facility called Camp Bucca in 2009. However, the insurgent who went on to lead the Islamic State, was released by a military review board in 2004. Trump did not announce he was about to order theÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 29, 2018
In recent years, many of the top commanders in ISIS have been identified as former senior officers in Saddam Hussein's army. Coincidence? Third, the U.S. military detained tens of thousands of Iraqis, many of them noncombatants, at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, where imprisoned jihadis were able to notÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 24, 2018
But American military officials see parallels with the Iraq war, in which militants, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the current leader of the Islamic State, were held for years at Camp Bucca, a sprawling American detention facility on the Kuwaiti border where they became more radicalized. “Clearly, we'veÃÂ ...
Just Security
January 4, 2018
Regarding the claim of unlawful detention, the sole presiding judge, Mr. Justice George Leggatt, found there was no basis in international law for Alseran's internment at Camp Bucca. He also held that the review process adopted by British forces to determine the status of captured persons rested on aÃÂ ...
UK Human Rights Blog (blog)
December 18, 2017
Under the Geneva Convention it was lawful for the advancing British forces to remove Mr Alseran forcibly from his family home and to detain him, but there was no lawful basis for his internment at Camp Bucca, whether as a prisoner of war or as a civilian internee. He was awarded damages under Article 5ÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 15, 2017
GENEVA — The United Nations said Friday that it was appalled by a mass execution of prisoners in Iraq and called for an immediate halt to executions, citing flaws in the country's criminal justice system. Iraq's Ministry of Justice said 38 prisoners were executed on terrorism-related charges in the southernÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 14, 2017
Leggatt said the claimants were entitled under international humanitarian law and Article 5 of the European Convention to have their cases assessed and a decision whether to intern or release them made promptly following their arrival at Camp Bucca on 25 March 2003. Making all due allowance for theÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
June 5, 2017
We speak with Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, about an often overlooked footnote in the history of ISIS. Kadidal says the group's mix of members was “pulled together in Camp Bucca,” which once hosted thousands of prisoners in Iraq without charge.
Rudaw
May 9, 2017
A young jihadist in shackles and chains was brought into Camp Bucca prison in the beginning of 2005 in the town of Um Qasir south of Iraq by the US Military Police Corps. They did not realize at the time what a dangerous subject they held in their custody. He was in his early 30s and had been captured inÃÂ ...
The Intercept
August 25, 2016
In the occupation's first few years, U.S. facilities like Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca developed a reputation as “jihadi universities” where hard-line extremists indoctrinated and recruited less radical inmates. Analysts have long suspected that Baghdadi took full advantage of his time at Bucca to link up with theÃÂ ...
Quartz
November 19, 2015
We know an awful lot about the rise of ISIL, or the Islamic State—including where it got its start. There are “many strands of blame,” according to a recent New York Times article (paywall), but an indisputable element is Camp Bucca, an American prison in southern Iraq during the US occupation. It was thereÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 11, 2014
The jihadist, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed, entered Camp Bucca as a young man a decade ago, and is now a senior official within Islamic State (Isis) – having risen through its ranks with many of the men who served time alongside him in prison. Like him, the other detainees had been snatchedÃÂ ...
CBS News
November 4, 2014
But there is growing evidence that the sprawling prison was also the birthplace of ISIS. According to a CBS News investigation, at least 12 of the top leaders of ISIS served time at Camp Bucca, including the man who would become the group's leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. CBS News obtained photos of 10ÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
July 11, 2014
But within a couple years of the US invasion, Baghdadi was a prisoner in Camp Bucca, the US-run detainment facility in Umm Qasr, Iraq. And a US compound commander stationed at that prison—and other military officials—have in recent weeks wondered whether Baghdadi's stint there radicalized himÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 3, 2011
He smiles and pulls back a coil of razor wire, welcoming travelers to this improbable hotel, which has opened within what used to be Camp Bucca, an American prison base with a notorious reputation among Iraqis. Basra Gateway is one of the fledgling efforts by Iraqi companies to make good commercialÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
December 31, 1999
But U.S. military officials see parallels with the Iraq War, in which militants, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the current head of the Islamic State, were held for years at Camp Bucca, a sprawling American detention facility on the Kuwaiti border where they became more radicalized. "Clearly, we've seen whatÃÂ ...
UK Human Rights Blog (blog)
December 18, 2017
Under the Geneva Convention it was lawful for the advancing British forces to remove Mr Alseran forcibly from his family home and to detain him, but there was no lawful basis for his internment at Camp Bucca, whether as a prisoner of war or as a civilian internee. He was awarded damages under Article 5ÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 14, 2017
Leggatt said the claimants were entitled under international humanitarian law and Article 5 of the European Convention to have their cases assessed and a decision whether to intern or release them made promptly following their arrival at Camp Bucca on 25 March 2003. Making all due allowance for theÃÂ ...
KTVQ Billings News
December 12, 2017
Al-Baghdadi was detained for several months in Camp Bucca, which was a US-run prison in southern Iraq. He was released in 2004. Timeline:2004 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi establishes al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). 2006 - Under al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda in Iraq tries to spark a sectarian war against the majority ShiaÃÂ ...
West Orlando News
November 30, 2017
... of Zarqawi, the remnants of the Baathist regime and the hundreds of thousands of demobilized Republican Guards were coalescing into al-Qaeda in Iraq, and their future leaders were being incubated in a monstrous nearby detention center called Camp Bucca that contained more than 26,000 prisoners.
CGTN America (blog)
November 30, 2017
In a five-part series, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels the world to investigate the origins and impact of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations: al Qaeda, al Shabaab, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Boko Haram and the Islamic State. In the series' final episode, Suroosh traces the Islamic State's origins back ...
Antiwar.com
November 27, 2017
... future leaders were being incubated in a monstrous nearby detention center called Camp Bucca that contained more than 26,000 prisoners.
The Times Telegram
November 12, 2017
In October 2007, he set out on his fourth deployment with Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion 4, Camp Bucca, Iraq, conducting detainee ...
Sputnik International
November 9, 2017
... in US custody essentially having the run of the camps such as Camp Bucca where he was housed and essentially creating Daesh there.
Albany Times Union (blog)
November 6, 2017
Arthur was deployed to Camp Bucca in Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom, from 2007-2009. Returning home, he got hooked on drugs ...
Truth-Out
November 3, 2017
The radicalization of prisoners at the US military prison Camp Bucca, torture at Abu Ghraib, and the dissolution of Iraq's military during the war ...
The New Yorker
October 24, 2017
... forged when they were imprisoned together in Camp Bucca and Abu Ghraib prisons, both of which were run by the U.S. military in Iraq.
Voltaire Network
October 6, 2017
Al-Joulani is an Al-Qaeda combatant who was a US prisoner in Camp Bucca (Iraq). Upon his release, he joined the Islamic State in Iraq, ...
The Express Tribune
October 6, 2017
Its reclusive leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, spent 10 months in the largest American prison in Iraq, Camp Bucca, for some unknown crime, ...
The Guardian
October 1, 2017
That was the war that gave the world Isis (whose leadership met in the mid-2000s in a American-run prison in Iraq called Camp Bucca, the only ...
The Sun
September 29, 2017
While reports differ on when al-Baghdadi was radicalised, it has been suggested that he was brainwashed in Camp Bucca, a US prison in ...
Sports Illustrated
September 29, 2017
Many people are opposed to NFL players protesting during the national anthem, citing respect for the military as a reason to stand. But Scooby ...
Rudaw
May 9, 2017
A young jihadist in shackles and chains was brought into Camp Bucca prison in the beginning of 2005 in the town of Um Qasir south of Iraq by ...
The Intercept
August 25, 2016
Previous reports suggested he was at Camp Bucca, a sprawling detention facility in southern Iraq. But the U.S. Army confirmed to The Intercept ...
CBS News
November 4, 2014
According to a CBS News investigation, at least 12 of the top leaders of ISIS served time at Camp Bucca, including the man who would become ...
The Independent
November 4, 2014
The sprawling detention center called Camp Bucca, which had detained some of the Iraq War's most radical jihadists along the Kuwait border, ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
GENEVA — The United Nations said Friday that it was appalled by a mass execution of prisoners in Iraq and called for an immediate halt to executions, citing flaws in the country's criminal justice system. Iraq's Ministry of Justice said 38 prisoners were executed on terrorism-related charges in the southernÃÂ ...
KTVQ Billings News
December 31, 1999
Al-Baghdadi was detained for several months in Camp Bucca, which was a US-run prison in southern Iraq. He was released in 2004.
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
December 31, 1999
He served two deployments during the War on Terror, in 2006-2007 at Camp Bucca, Iraq, as well as at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, and Camp ...
The Sun
September 29, 2017
While reports differ on when al-Baghdadi was radicalised, it has been suggested that he was brainwashed in Camp Bucca, a US prison inÃÂ ...
Sports Illustrated
September 29, 2017
Many people are opposed to NFL players protesting during the national anthem, citing respect for the military as a reason to stand. But ScoobyÃÂ ...
San Angelo Standard Times
September 28, 2017
Jacobson was assigned to the 17th Security Forces Squadron at Goodfellow and was later deployed to Camp Bucca in Iraq. Her team providedÃÂ ...
Bharat Shakti
September 12, 2017
ISIS is/was headed by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi nicknamed 'The Invisible Sheikh', who was interned by the USA in Camp Bucca in 2004.
The New Arab
September 9, 2017
That year he was arrested and held in Camp Bucca, the US detention facility near Um Qasr. By 2010 he had been released from Bucca, but heÃÂ ...
NorthJersey.com
September 8, 2017
What Egan did not know at the time — nor did Pentagon officials — was that Camp Bucca and its volatile collection of insurgents would be theÃÂ ...
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