Did President Trump Approve a Deal That Allowed Hundreds of ISIS Fighters to Escape Raqqa?
Mother Jones Magazine
(2 days ago)
Why hasn't this deeply-reported BBC story gotten more attention?
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RAQQA'S DIRTY SECRET
BBC
(5 days ago)
The BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the U.S. and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city.
Lorry driver Abu Fawzi thought it was going to be just another job.
He drives an 18-wheeler across some of the most dangerous territory in northern Syria.
Bombed-out bridges, deep desert sand, even government forces and so-called Islamic State fighters don't stand in the way of a delivery.
But this time, his load was to be human cargo.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters opposed to ISIS, wanted him to lead a convoy that would take hundreds of families displaced by fighting from the town of Tabqa on the Euphrates River to a camp further north.
The job would take six hours, maximum - or at least that's what he was told.
But when he and his fellow drivers assembled their convoy early on 12 October, they realized they had been lied to.
Instead, it would take three days of hard driving, carrying a deadly cargo - hundreds of ISIS fighters, their families, and tons of weapons and ammunition.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/raqqas_dirty_secret
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