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| IS Executes at least 37 Civilians in Central Syria |
| 2015-04-01 |
| [AnNahar] 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.... jihadist group Tuesday executed at least 37 civilians, including two children, in a raid on a regime-held village in Hama province of central Syria, a monitor said. IS "executed at least 37 people, including women and kiddies, by burning, beheading, and firing on them" in the village of Mabujeh, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reported that 44 people were killed and 21 injured in the raid. Mabujeh, east of the scenic provincial capital Hama, has a population of Sunni Moslems as well as Alawites and Ismailis, minority sects that are offshoots of Shiite Islam. IS has regularly targeted minority sects in Syria, especially Shiite Moslems it accuses of apostasy, as well as Sunnis who it alleges have violated its interpretation of Islam. Mabujeh lies near a vital road that serves as the regime's only link between the central province of Homs and the northern province of Aleppo. IS snuffies have repeatedly tried to sever the route. In late March, the bully boy group killed 83 regime soldiers in the region in a bid to gain control over the road. In northwest Syria, the Observatory said Tuesday, at least 32 people were killed in government air strikes on the city of Idlib in the past 48 hours. Regime forces lost control of the city Saturday to a coalition of Islamist forces led by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front. In Geneva, the U.N.'s human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... office said it was worried about the situation in the city. "We are deeply concerned by the human rights situation in Idlib" after the rebel takeover, spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly said at a briefing. Pouilly said the U.N. was concerned about reports of an attack on a hospital run by the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy in the city. Syria's Red Islamic Thingy published photos of destruction at its Idlib hospital on Facebook, but did not give details on how it had been damaged. Pouilly also voiced U.N. concerns over the fate of Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite-majority villages near Idlib city. One of the leaders of the Islamist coalition that captured Idlib warned Sunday that the two villages would be targeted if the regime bombed Idlib. |
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