reblogged from todays Guardian
Documents uncovered in Aleppo show that Haji Bakr drew up the ‘blueprint for caliphate’ after being jailed by the US authorities, according to Der Spiegel
One of Saddam Hussein’s former intelligence officers masterminded Islamic State’s takeover of northern Syria after becoming embittered by the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a report by the German magazine Der Spiegel
Documents uncovered in Syria reveal meticulous planning for the group’s structure and organisation, the report says, with the 31 pages of handwritten charts, lists and schedules amounting to a blueprint for the establishment of a caliphate in Syria.
The documents were the work of a man identified by the magazine as Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein’s air defence force, who went by the pseudonym Haji Bakr, Spiegel says.
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This is the consequences of the Western invasion’s superficial and misconstrued attempt at “purging” Ba’athists from any communal responsibilities. Their ostracising is what has led to the Naqshbandi Order, and hence the easy take-over of Anbar and Mosul.
Regardless, politics is a pain and full of deceit: it’s best to be avoided.
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Just to be clear, I’m not a Ba’athist and nor do I support anyone who is responsible for injustice, but the way they were dealt with is what has led Iraq – and now Libya and Syria – to the situation it has found itself.
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