Then the people who backed the new boss, al-Julani, should do something about it.
From The Telegraph, January 30:
Observers are warning that detention camps housing followers of the notorious Isis caliphate are close to collapse
In a desolate expanse of north-east Syria, where there is little more than dirt and dust, the sprawling Al-Hol camp rises from the desert.
Hot and dry in summer, with relentless winds whipping up sandstorms, and exposed to biting cold in winter, the high-security facility is hemmed in by metal fencing and patrolled by Western-allied Kurdish-led troops.
Behind the barbed wire, under the eyes of surveillance cameras and watchtowers, is the largest single remnant of the bloody caliphate once ruled by Isis. The camp is home to thousands of women and children, the relatives of the terror group’s legions of male fighters, the majority of whom are held at an unknown number of prison facilities spread across the region.
Among those facing indefinite detention in Al-Hol, the smaller Al-Roj camp farther north, and the secretive jails are a number of terror suspects linked to Britain – including Shamima Begum and “Jihadi Jack” Letts – who travelled to Syria and Iraq to join Isis between 2012 and 2019. Some 20 British women, 40 children and 10 men are believed to be held in facilities across the region in total.
The fate of the prisoners has been the subject of years of concern and debate following the fall of Isis’s caliphate six years ago. To this day, foreign governments and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue to wrestle with the complexity of finding a long-term solution to the security problems they pose.
Those worries have now taken on a heightened sense of urgency as Syria enters a new phase of uncertainty following the fall of Bashar al-Assad. On Wednesday, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s de-facto leader and the head of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group, abolished the country’s 2012 constitution and declared himself president for a “transitional period” following a meeting of armed factions in Damascus.
The announcement came after officials and analysts warned earlier this week that the Isis terrorists held in north-eastern Syria could escape from camps and prisons as a result of Donald Trump’s cuts to foreign aid.
US funding to the SDF was halted for several days, reportedly leading to local guards not turning up to work. An intervention by the US state department on Monday reinstated funding for two weeks, but it remains unclear what will happen after the stopgap measure expires.
“This is the biggest population of incarcerated terrorists, anywhere in the world, ever – within an active war zone in which Isis remains determined to launch mass breakout attacks,” Charles Lister, the director of the Countering Terrorism and Extremism programme at the Middle East Institute, said on Monday. “The threat… cannot be understated.”
Guards have warned that attempted prison breaks could be imminent.
Khaled Ibrahim, an official in north-eastern Syria’s de facto autonomous region, describes the facilities across the region as “ticking time bombs”.
“Detainees consider themselves part of Isis’s retaliatory legacy,” he says, adding they have been laying in wait for an opportunity to strike back.
Those held in the overcrowded camps, where rows of weather-beaten tents stretch off into the distance, surrounded by overflowing sewage, are near-constantly exposed to extremist ideologies. There are few rehabilitation programmes in place. Al-Hol itself has previously been described as a “mini caliphate”, populated by some 40,000 women and children brainwashed by years of Isis indoctrination. Security control is limited to the facility’s perimeter, with no clear authority or effective monitoring within the camp itself....
Female Yazidi worshippers gather to remember the thousands of women and girls seized as sex slaves, tortured and murdered by ISIS fanatics
I had intended to post this on International Women's Day but was counseled to hold off.
We have a special admiration for the Yazidi women and their Kurdish sisters and do think they should be celebrated....
....Previously on the Yazidi and Kurdish women:
Feb. 2016
Hundreds of Former Sex Slaves Take Up Arms To Do What Obama, Cameron Won't: Kill ISIS Pigs
Nov. 2016
The Battle to Retake Raqqa Syria From ISIS Is Being Led By A Kurdish Woman: Jihadis, Erdoğan Not Pleased
This woman is leading efforts to send ISIS to hell, but Turkey has other plans
