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Iraq
ISIL militants kidnap 100 foreign nationals in Iraq
2014-06-19
[Iran Press TV] Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) have kidnapped approximately 100 foreign nationals in northern Iraq.

According to the Indian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, 40 Indian citizens working for a Turkish construction company have been kidnapped near the Iraqi town of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...

The ISIL gunnies have also kidnapped some 60 foreigners including nationals from Turkey, Pakistain, Nepal and Turkmenistan in the northern region of Iraq.

Earlier this month, ISIL Death Eaters kidnapped nearly 50 staff members of the Turkish consulate in Mosul, including the head of the mission. Reports said the gunnies had also kidnapped 31 Turkish truck drivers in the Iraqi city a day earlier.

The abductions took place after the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
gunnies gained control of parts of Iraq's northern areas, including Nineveh Province and its lovely provincial capital, Mosul, on June 10.

Iraqi armed forces have been engaged in heavy festivities with the bad boys, who have threatened to take their acts of violence to other Iraqi cities, including the capital, Storied Baghdad.
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