Blowback: Paris Terror Suspect Radicalized by Outrage Over American Torture and Invasion of Iraq

Dan Sanchez, 

One of the Paris terror suspects was radicalized by outrage over American torture and the invasion of Iraq. The Huffington Post reports:

“The Associated Press said that Cherif Kouachi was tried in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Kouachi told the court at the time that he was outraged by images that revealed the torture of Iraqi inmates by U.S. guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, according to the AP.”

And The New York Times reports:

“Chérif’s interest in radical Islam, it was said at the 2008 trial, was rooted in his fury over the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003, particularly the mistreatment of Muslims held at Abu Ghraib prison.”

http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/01/08/blowback-paris-terror-suspect-radicalized-by-outrage-over-american-torture-and-invasion-of-iraq/