US moving terrorists from Syria’s Baghuz to ‘new Guantanamo’: Analyst
Tehran (Basirat) :The US is reportedly withdrawing extremists and their family members from Daesh's last stronghold in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr province to camps in western Iraq which an Iraqi analyst has called the “new Guantanamo”.
Five years after Daesh swept across Syria and Iraq, all that remains of the
"caliphate” that at its peak stretched across two countries and controlled 10
million people is a handful of streets in a bend of the Euphrates river running
through the desert town of Baghuz.
Trapped from the east and the west by advancing US-backed SDF militants and by
the Syrian army and Russia, the self-proclaimed caliphate is a hellscape of
smoke and fire. There is nowhere left for the fighters to go.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 men are believed to be still inside the riverside
pocket, along with an unknown number of women and children.
Now, the US-led coalition is reportedly evacuating the enclave and moving the
terrorists and their family members to camps in western Iraq.
A UK-based monitoring group says trucks belonging to the US-led coalition have
secretly transferred Daesh Takfiri terrorists out of their last bastion in
eastern Syria.
Iraqi security analyst Hazem al-Bawi says the US is seeking to create a new
Guantanamo Bay camp, similar to the notorious one in Cuba.
According to al-Bawi, the US is pressurizing the Iraqi government to create
camps for accommodating thousands of Daesh family members in the desert areas of
western Iraq, but there are concerns that the camps would turn into a new
Guantanamo.
"The government must prevent the US from finding a new pretext for prolonging
its presence in Iraq through accommodation of terrorists in these new camps,”
the analyst said.
The Guantanamo detention camp is a United States military prison located on the
coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, where many terror suspects have been kept
indefinitely without charge amid reports of torture.
Source: PressTV