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Mission Accomplished? ISIS Leaders Are All Ex-Saddam Hussein Army Officers

By Tyler Durden
Created 04/06/2015 - 17:30
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Almost all the top leaders in the Islamic State are former officers in the Iraqi army. As WaPo reports, the current leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, reshaped the original al-Qaeda affiliate by recruiting from Saddam Hussein’s disbanded army...

 

 

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So it's all Bush's fault?

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Source: The Washington Post [4]

 

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