[Iraq News] Police in Kirkuk tossed in the clinkMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
on Friday two members of 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....
who had taken part in executions of Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Police chief Sarhad Qader was quoted by Aljournal News saying a police force arrested the pair near Daqouq region, west of the province. He said the two members took part in battles against Peshmerga forces and also executed some of its troopers in the Islamic State stronghold town of Hawija, southwest of the province.
"There had been videos and posts proving that the arrested gunnies took part in beheading Peshmerga captives," Qader stated, adding that both had been referred to the judiciary.
Since emerging in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled "Islamic Caliphate", IS members executed hundreds of Iraqi and Kurdish security members as well as civilians. The group is still holding areas in southwestern Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
where thousands of civilians had to flee the group’s rule to refugee camps in the province and neighboring cities. Local officials have repeatedly urged the government to hasten with security efforts to liberate IS-held regions in Kirkuk, but the Iraqi government currently employs its full military power in the six-month-old campaign to retake djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, IS’s biggest stronghold in Iraq.