Martin Chulov, The Guardian: Isis: The Inside Story
One of the Islamic State’s senior commanders reveals exclusive details of the terror group’s origins inside an Iraqi prison – right under the noses of their American jailers.
In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard, where men with middle-distance stares, wearing brightly-coloured prison uniforms, stood back warily, watching him.
“I knew some of them straight away,” he told me last month. “I had feared Bucca all the way down on the plane. But when I got there, it was much better than I thought. In every way.”
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 16, 2015
The Genesis and Growth of Global Jihad -- Robin Wright, The New Yorker
What We Know About Islamic State, Its Deadly Reach -- Smita Nordwall, VOA
Former NYPD Head Ray Kelly: Paris Attacks Were ‘Shockingly Simple’ -- Michael Daly, Daily Beast
After Paris attacks, a new focus for world leaders at G20 summit -- Andrew Hammond, Reuters
Grim New Reality in the Terror War -- Dan De Luce, Foreign Policy
Democrats Begin to Embrace 'Regime Change' Again -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Democratic debate: How the Paris attacks may change US presidential race -- Patrik Jonsson, CSM
Paris and the U.S. Presidential Election -- Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Americans Won't Think of Paris at the Polls -- Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg
Obama Takes On a Newly Hawkish Press -- Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
A Dangerous Rivalry for the Kurds -- Ranj Alaadin, NYT
The Syrian Kurds Are Winning! -- Jonathan Steele, New York Review of Books
Beirut bombing: Hezbollah threatens ‘long war’ as Lebanese capital reels from deadliest terror attack in years -- Robert Fisk, The Independent
Why countries are walling themselves in – and others out -- Simon Montlake, CSM
Europe's Long Goodbye to Open Borders -- Daniel Wagner, Huffington Post
The End of ‘One China’ -- Andrew Browne, WSJ
Asia’s Meth Wars: Speed and brutality in Myanmar’s borderlands -- Global Post
Analysis: A short history of attacks on sport -- Simon Austin, Al Jazeera
Hate crimes in America dropped by 8 percent in 2014 -- Jessica Mendoza, CSM
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http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-paris-cafe-owner-loses-wife-friends-in-terror-attack/
Gregory Reibenberg is the major shareholder in La Belle Equipe, which was hit by IS gunmen; his wife Djamila died in his arms; the cafe’s Muslim manager was also killed.
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