In 2005, US military forces captured Baghdadi....He was held in a US-run detention camp in southern Iraq called Camp Bucca, where he remained for several years. In 2008... Bush signed an agreement with the Iraqi government that mandated that all detainees be handed over to Iraqi forces....Baghdadi was transferred to Iraqi custody in 2009, and by 2010, the Iraqi government...had set him free. That same year, Baghdadi assumed leadership of ISIS...."the United States' detainee programs had become a black eye," says Patrick Johnston, an expert on Iraqi insurgent groups at the RAND Corporation. US-run detention facilities were overcrowded; some prisoners were tortured. Continuing a large US-controlled detainee program "was a political nonstarter," he adds.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-release-george-bush
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