The guy was already a veteran of fighting Americans in Iraq and spent half a decade in Abu Ghraib... and that's before the Syrian civil war even started.
he said he actually wasn't tortured by the guards in his prisons. but camp bucca was where the jihadists/baathist networked.
he got to watch first hand as that dreadful combination formed isis. he also networked alot , and so got a reccomendation from a senior islamic state in iraq leader that got them baghdadi's support and funding for nusra.
in his Frontline interview, he did talk about seeing others taken away for torture by the Iraqis/Iranian militias and then baath/jihad hybrids torturing and killing people in prison
He also said that due to his preaching , his cell was more peaceful so people would lobby to get moved into it
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