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Dozens of Bodies Found in Iraq Mass Grave
Rakan Said al-Juburi told AFP it was the 14th such discovery in the area. "Local residents and shepherds guided security forces to the mass grave which appears to contain the remains of more than 75 civilians and security personnel," he said. The governor said the victims had been "savagely executed by jihadists who occupied Hawija," one of the last urban centers held by the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group before its ouster last year by Iraqi security forces. The corpses found near Ryadh village, 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of the city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... had been shot in the head with their hands bound behind their backs, he said. Residents fear that many missing relatives and friends, especially members of the security forces, have probably suffered the same fate. Security forces have discovered dozens of mass graves since they drove out IS in 2017 after three years of occupation of swathes of northern and western Iraq. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-28 |
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