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</script>https://www.kreisky-forum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/bilde2013-99-15.jpg185139How America Helped ISIS By ANDREW THOMPSON and JEREMI SURIOCT. 1, 2014 Austin, Texas — The Islamic State terrorists who have emerged in Iraq and Syria are neither new nor unfamiliar. Many of them spent years in detention centers run by the United States and its coalition partners in Iraq after 2003. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]