| | Clarice Feldman wrote of Baghdadi, whom the leftist ''[[Washington Post]]'' described as an “austere religious scholar”. | | Clarice Feldman wrote of Baghdadi, whom the leftist ''[[Washington Post]]'' described as an “austere religious scholar”. |
| − | {{quotebox|Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an [[ISIS]] leader. He was a very, very bad man. In 2009, we had him captured and imprisoned in Iraq. For some utterly inexplicable reason, [[President Obama]] released him from [[Camp Bucca]]. Thereafter, Baghdadi and his troops took over the Iraqi cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Tikrit and Mosul, and threatened Baghdad. | + | {{quotebox|Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an [[ISIS]] leader. He was a very, very bad man. In 2009, we had him captured and imprisoned in Iraq. For some utterly inexplicable reason, [[President Obama]] released him from Camp Bucca. Thereafter, Baghdadi and his troops took over the Iraqi cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Tikrit and Mosul, and threatened Baghdad. |
| | Along the way they burned down everything in their path and tortured and murdered civilians, soldiers and police officers. | | Along the way they burned down everything in their path and tortured and murdered civilians, soldiers and police officers. |
| | After his Iraqi mayhem, Baghdadi took refuge in Syria where he hid out.<ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/was_it_trumps_magic_wand_that_turned_the_washington_post_into_a_laughingstock.html</ref>}} | | After his Iraqi mayhem, Baghdadi took refuge in Syria where he hid out.<ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/was_it_trumps_magic_wand_that_turned_the_washington_post_into_a_laughingstock.html</ref>}} |
| | + | Camp Bucca was dubbed as "America’s Jihadi University" housing 20,000 prisoners. In the "Great Prison Release of 2009", 5,700 high-security detainees were set free. Among them were Baghdadi and [[Abu Mohammad al-Julani]], later known as [[Ahmed al Sharaa]]. In 2013 Baghdadi sent [[Julani/Sharaa]] to eastern [[Syria]] to foment an uprising against its legitimate [[government]]. In 2025, Julani became [[President]] [[Ahmed al Sharaa]] of Syria.<ref>https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/netanyahu-firstthe-real-reason-for</ref> |