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| Iraq Reports 2,700 Missing since June Jihadist Onslaught | ||
| 2014-12-16 | ||
| [AnNahar] At least 2,700 people, mostly soldiers, are missing as a result of attacks 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.... group in Iraq, the human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... ministry said on Monday. More than half of those registered as missing by the government are soldiers who were at the Speicher base which the jihadists captured six months ago near Tikrit. "The number of missing from Speicher base has reached 1,660, from Badush prison 487, in addition to 554 from other areas, including 38 women," the ministry said in a statement. Badush is a prison outside the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which IS has used as its main hub in Iraq. The ministry said those numbers are based on applications filed by relatives and subsequent checking with the relevant ministries. "The number of missing is likely higher than this," ministry front man Kamel al-Amin told AFP.
He added that the ministry had asked the families of those confirmed to be missing to provide DNA samples "in order to identify victims who might later be found in mass graves". According to Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... , IS gunnies executed up to 600 inmates from Badush prison on June 10, forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine before pushing them in and setting fire to the bodies. The following day, they seized the Speicher base and claimed to have executed 1,700 Shiite troops. The rights group was able to find evidence that at least 560 had been killed. Major attacks on army bases in the western province in September are also believed to have left hundreds of troops dead or missing. Rights organizations say the fate of hundreds of women and girls from the Yazidi minority who were kidnapped by IS during an August attack is still unknown.
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