https://www.gospanews.net/en/2019/08/06/al-baghdadi-issi-caliph-and-cia-agent-hi...THE BLACK CALIPH RELEASED BY US MILITARY
«According to Abu Ahmed and two other men who had been imprisoned in Bucca in 2004, the Americans saw him as a repairer able to resolve controversial disputes between competing factions and keep the field quiet – the British newspaper reports – “But over time, whenever there was a problem in the camp, it was at the center of it” Abu Ahmed recalled. “He wanted to be the head of the prison, looking back on the past, he was using a policy of conquest and division to get what he wanted, which was status. And it worked”. In December 2004, Baghdadi was considered by his jailers no longer dangerous and his release was authorized».
“He was highly respected by the US military,” said Abu Ahmed. “And in the meantime, a new strategy, which was driving, was rising under the nose, and that of building the Islamic State. If there were no American prison in Iraq, there would be no IS now. Bucca was a factory. He built us all. He built our ideology”. The interviewee tells of how the contact details and phone numbers were written in the boxers rubber bands to contact them once they were released.
According to Hisham al-Hashimi, an analyst in Baghdad, the Iraqi government estimates that 17 of the 25 most important Islamic state leaders who led the war in Iraq and Syria spent time in prisons in the United States between 2004 and 2011. Some have been transferred from US custody to Iraqi prisons, where a series of assaults in recent years have allowed many senior leaders to flee and rejoin the ranks of the insurgents.
Al Baghdadi during his speech at the great mosque at Nuri in Mosul, 29 June 2014, when he announced the birth of Isis
How well it reconstructs Il Fatto Quotidiano Al Baghdadi was released after only 10 months of incarceration since his arrest on 4 February 2004. The reason is made clear in the American documentation: the future leader of the Islamic State was imprisoned as a “civil prisoner” despite the International intelligence was already aware of its dangerousness because «he had already joined, five years earlier, an extremist fringe linked to the Muslim Brotherhood led by Muhammad Hardan, a member of the movement and former mujahidin who had fought against the Soviet invasion of the Afghanistan in the 80s» writes the Italian journal. In 2000, according to William McCants of the Brookings Institution in his The Believer, the future Caliph “was already ready to fight” and in 2003 he will be among the founders of Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jamaah, an Islamist group that fought against American troops in central and northern Iraq.
In the Camp Bucca prison, as mentioned, Baghdadi becomes a reference point for both prisoners and the Americans who controlled them. «This image of leader and the profound knowledge of Koranic texts and acting, the basis of all his university studies, allowed him to win the trust of many former Baathists, convert them and convince them to join the jihad. All under the eyes of the American military. When al-Baghdadi leaves the detention camp, in December 2004 according to the documents released, he will do so as a normal Iraqi citizen and not as a terrorist, as instead happened in early December to his ex-wife, Saja al Dulaimi, released by the Lebanese government as part of an exchange of prisoners with the jihadists of Jabhat al-Nusra».