[Libloather]

And Barry lets other terrorists go free.

[piasa]

Some of them had fought against al-Qaeda after changing sides and aligning with the American-backed Awakening movement during the surge of troops in 2007. When U.S. troops withdrew and the Iraqi government abandoned the Awakening fighters, the Islamic State was the only surviving option for those who felt betrayed ...

Love how the paragraph is framed to imply US troops were withdrawn in 2007...

[DB]

So how do they know they’re from Iraq and former officers if they don’t know who they are and the leader is masked???

[samtheman]

Was Hussein’s Iraq really drifting towards Islamic Fundamentalism before the 2003 invasion?

[nuconvert]

bump