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Islamic State kidnaps 25 civilians attempting to flee its Kirkuk stronghold
[Iraq News] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bully boyz have kidnapped 25 civilians for attempting to flee the group’s strongholds in southwestern Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a source said Thursday as refugees numbers continue to soar amid battles between the group and Iraqi troops.

Alsumaria News quoted a source within pro-government militias at the town of Hawija as saying that the myrmidon group kidnapped early in the morning 25 people from al-Zab region after setting them up in an ambush.

The civilians, who were bound to Shirqat town in the neighboring Salahuddin province, were accused of "abandoning the land of the caliphate," a charge the group recurrently filed against civilians fleeing areas under its control. The accusation, most of the time, has ended up with the civilians brutally executed.


Posted by: Fred 2017-03-03
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