US Prison camp in Iraq accidentally formed ISIS by housing the most radial jihadists together

Among those held in Camp Bucca was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the current leader of ISIS


A US prison camp in Iraq became the catalyst of the terror group ISIS because extremists were housed in the same vicinity with free time to devise a terror plan against America.

Between 2003 and 2009 it is estimated that more than 100,000 men passed through Camp Bucca, many of whom left highly radicalized. During these years, the camp provided the leaders of the embryonic ISIS, the chance to form alliances with members of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime. Read more:

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