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How ISIS evolved in an American prison


In March 2009, in a wind-swept sliver of Iraq, a sense of uncertainty befell the southern town of Garma, home to one of the Iraq war’s most notorious prisons. The sprawling Camp Bucca detention center, which had detained some of the war’s most radical extremists along the Kuwait border, had just freed hundreds of inmates. Families rejoiced, anxiously awaiting their sons, brothers and fathers who had been lost to Bucca for years. But a local official fretted. The camp now represents an opening chapter in the history of the Islamic State — many of its leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were incarcerated and probably met there. According to former prison commanders, analysts and soldiers, Camp Bucca provided a unique setting for both prisoner radicalization and inmate collaboration — and was formative in the development of today’s most potent jihadist force. Nov 4; http://wapo.st/1w9HbYa








The chart for the November 3, 2013 solar eclipse at Baghdad (close to Garma) is shown here. Notice the  prominent Grand Cross and Grand Trine to IC. Progressing the eclipse chart to Nov 3 or 4, 2014  by the solar quotidian method  bring the angles back to their radix position re-emphasizing the Cross and the Trine.

The eclipse [11sc]  is part of an ancient Chinese asterism T’ien-Lao, the Celestial Prison. It is conjunct the star Alphecca (alpha Corona Borealis)  which was the jailer.  Chinese astrologers maintained that when all the stars of the asterism were clearly seen the prisons of the empire would be full. If the  star Alphecca was faint many prisoners would be released [1]. (It appears that this is what happened at Camp Bucca!)

The other elements are interpreted as follows:

Hades-Kronos: Authority figures make mistakes.

Hades-Uranus: Haste and impulsiveness invite mistakes; awareness of criminal gangs. (note: Uranus-Pluto is about mutations so that here we see the possibility of mutation of criminal gangs  into something worse)




[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p. 727)

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