made fighting oh liger to.obligatory. and lone attacks here in the u.s. people inspired by al baghdadi isis and other groups to take up arms themselves and carry out attacks for instance like the shooting in texas a couple weeks ago. what s the latest jim, year hearing about reports out there. we re getting conflicting information that the number two guy in isis may have been hit in an air strike? reporter: right. comes from iraqi officials saying in a coalition air strike that al afri number two, baghdadi s number two in isis pap long history going back to the group when it was al qaeda in iraq under al zahr erer zarkawi. they ve seen no evidence he s dead. remember a $7 million price tag on his head and remember the
has resurfaced. heard in a new audio message calling on muslims to join his terror group and take up arms. that comes amid claims that al bag daddieal al baghdadi s second in command was killed in an air strike. reporter: no reason to doubt it s the voice of the isis leader. it temperaturing you he s alive, and two, at least not injured or incapacitated enough he couldn t make a new threat and the fact is u.s. officials have always doubted he was seriously wounded in the strike in february, but in addition to that talk about the threat he makes in this because in this audio statement he s calling on muslims all over the world, including here in the u.s. to carry out attacks where they can. he says there is no excuse for any muslim capable of carrying a weapon allah commanded him and
isl islam. those inmates were jihadists or former bathists, henchmen of saddam, or simply common criminals. it most assuredly was a jihadist university. unquestionably. put them all together in the baking heat of southern iraq, without baghdadi, a man who dreamed of a new kind of terror, it was a recipe for isis. they were meeting, they were playing soccer together, they were strategizing together. one thing is clear, al baghdadi went through a transformation at camp bucca. matthew was an average person. he was just a sunni foot soldier when he was arrested by the americans. but by the time al baghdadi left, he was someone else. all we know is that baghdadi became an entirely different creature, in terms of
militarization, in terms of building a huge network of militants in the prison. at camp bucca, al baghdadi networked with hundreds of jihadis, at least some of whom would later join isis, the day would come when he would need military expertise. enter saddam hussein s army. dismissed by the americans, many now at camp bucca. men with exactly the skill set al baghdadi could later make use of, and then he was set free. the future leader of isis was recommended for unconditional release by a military review board in december 2004. they did not consider him a threat. whether it turns out al baghdadi is the mastermind of isis or a figure head, the fact remains the united states has put a $10
major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving nic robertson a tour in 2008. we have about 2000 identified al qaeda here in the theater. they are hard to break. you have shields up here to protect us. everyone down here is crowded around looking at us now. right, but this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don t want to stand here that much longer. they will organize around us. there were beatings, unexplained prisoner deaths and several dangerous jihadis escaped. into this area, one day in 2004, a new man arrived. we know him now as abu baghdadi, the leader of isis.