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U.S. prison was ‘terrorist university’ for Islamic State

Nov 16, 2014 5:19 pm By Robert Spencer

Jihadist-Propaganda-ISIS-FilmThis is because the U.S. does nothing in these prisons to try to change the mindset of the prisoners. The guards treat the Qur’an, which is of course distributed to all the prisoners, with exaggerated reverence. Any attempt to change their way of thinking would immediately be denounced by groups such as the terrorist organization CAIR as “Islamophobic.”

“U.S. prison was ‘terrorist university’ for Islamic State,” by Terrence McCoy, Waterloo Region Record, November 16, 2014:

WASHINGTON — In March 2009, in a windswept 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 detention centre called Camp Bucca, which had detained some of the Iraq War’s most radical jihadists, had just freed hundreds of inhabitants. 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 90 per cent 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.”

Mahmoud’s assessment of Camp Bucca, which funnelled 100,000 detainees through its barracks and closed months later, would prove prescient. The camp now represents an opening chapter in the history of Islamic State — many of its leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were incarcerated and likely met there.

According to former prison commanders, analysts and soldiers, Camp Bucca provided a unique setting for both prisoner radicalization and inmate collaboration — and it was formative in the development today’s most potent jihadist force.

In all, nine members of the Islamic State’s top command did time at Bucca, according to the terrorist analyst organization Soufan Group. Baghdadi spent five years there; the leader’s No. 2, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, as well as senior military leader Haji Bakr, now deceased, and the leader of foreign fighters, Abu Qasim, were also incarcerated at Bucca, Soufan said. Though it’s likely the men were extremists when they entered the detention centre, the group added, it’s certain they were when they left.

“Before their detention, Mr. al-Baghdadi and others were violent radicals, intent on attacking America,” wrote military veteran Andrew Thompson and academic Jeremi Suri in the New York Times last month. “Their time in prison deepened their extremism and gave them opportunities to broaden their following … The prisons became virtual terrorist universities: The hardened radicals were the professors, the other detainees were the students, and the prison authorities played the role of absent custodian.”

It’s a scenario that’s long confounded law enforcement: How do you crack down on extremism without creating more of it? From the radicalization of white supremacists in U.S. prisons to the United Kingdom’s disastrous bid in the 1970s to incarcerate Irish Republican Army members, the problem is nothing new: prisons are pools of explosive extremism awaiting a spark….

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  1. albert says

    Nov 16, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    How about this…..why cant the west rewrite the Koran….take all references to violence against unbelievers out, in fact all references to violence…do the same to the bible if you like….then insist that only teaching the new Koran is legal in the west, in the whole world, teach only love and peace, this should be agreeable to all muslims after all don’t they call it “the religion of peace”

    • Screeminmeeme says

      Nov 17, 2014 at 8:51 am

      While it sounds like that could be the simple solution, you have problem. Even if you rewrote or even destroyed every tome ever written which chronicled and/or commanded violence toward others, men would still be killing be causing pain and suffering in the world. Why? Because man’s heart is ”deceitful above all, and desperately wicked”.

      If you don’t think so, just take a moment and look in the mirror.

    • Dr Nath Duru-Obisi says

      Nov 17, 2014 at 9:53 am

      Well said!! That is the only way to contain the Islamic terrorism rewriting Koran and ensuring that all traces of promoting hatred for anyone is obliterated or censured.I had long advocated this point of view in my early submission. It is a book held very dearly by compulsion on the adherents but writing on the inspiration of the god of this world intend to fight back the evacuation by Jesus of the content of Abraham Bosom and relocating them to heavenly Paradise leaving a stern injunction that all believers in Christ and descendants of Abraham would no longer head to Hades upon death. Who is Koran opposed to? God the creator of all things and Jesus his son and all that believe in him. Who is Koran advocating for? The god of deception the author of the fall of man and the introduction of terrorism. How would the West and USA eliminate the growth of terrorism if not by eliminating the source? It has to be eliminated at all cost since mistake had been made in immigration policies by allowing Islamic adherents to migrate to West found and developed by faith in Christ Jesus. No terrorist can hardly be assimilated nor former Islam members except by sheer grace of God. So isolate them and let the copies of violence infested Koran be disallowed from circulation.

      • bill says

        Nov 18, 2014 at 12:02 am

        You make an assumption, that the West wants assimilation.
        You may want newcomers to be assimilated, but the powers to be, tell newcomers to bring their baggage from their foreign lands, and we are being forced to accept it.
        The PC Left is against assimilation, and it appears that they are winning.
        Just watch Obama’s new Immigration policy, soon to be revealed, as proof of my statements.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Nov 16, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    “why cant the west rewrite the Koran”
    —————
    Ha, Ha that is funny

    They already have, every time Muslims behave badly, the media and politicians West say they are misunderstanding Islam.

    Why don’t these Koran Krazies just get with the program and let the liberal elites of the West redefine Islam for them instead of following Islam?

  3. Jay Boo says

    Nov 16, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    I suppose we could round up all Muslims and throw then in prison without trial just for being Muslim.

    First we would need some self-serving excuse like an anti-blasphemy law.

    Then how would the UN react? Would they be shocked?

  4. Baconeatingkaffir says

    Nov 16, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    This is the reason not to take koranderthal prisoners. A few minutes with the right people to get what information that can be gleaned from them and then dispatch them to Satan. A nice tall tree or high placeand a rope is all it takes . Rope can be recycled and used repeatedly.

  5. Salah says

    Nov 16, 2014 at 11:49 pm

    “It’s a scenario that’s long confounded law enforcement: How do you crack down on extremism without creating more of it?”

    How about…prison for life?

    • Baconeatingkaffir says

      Nov 17, 2014 at 12:09 am

      Solitary confinement for life seems like a good start… no books.. no tv… no communication with the outside world.

  6. Bilbo says

    Nov 17, 2014 at 7:25 am

    In New Jersey prisons, the guards and inmates are all part of the same Islamic drug gangs, prayers are shouted at the top of the lungs at midnight, and non-Islamic prisoners are in danger of being murdered.

    • Screeminmeeme says

      Nov 17, 2014 at 9:02 am

      This is the case in many US prisons where dhimmitude is alive and well. And it only makes sense when you consider that Islam, created by a criminal, would attract criminals because it gives divine license to commit every kind of depraved, wanton act against humanity that is conceivable….and…..it was especially designed to the meet the needs of the proud misogynist.

  7. Bonnie Loranger says

    Nov 17, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Just separate the muslims from the others and confine them.

  8. Dr. Gonzalo de Porras says

    Nov 18, 2014 at 3:38 am

    Querido amigos : No solo en USA se esta utilizando las carceles para el adoctrinamiento jihadista, ya que en España y desde hace mas de diez años, las carceles son como universidades en que los presos musulmanes enseñan a los jovenes musulmanes (de segunda generación de emigrantes) para que se unan al Jihad.
    Dear friends not only in USA prisons is being used for jihadi indoctrination, as in Spain and for over ten years, prisons are like universities where Muslim prisoners teach young Muslims (second generation immigrants ) to join the Jihad.

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