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Iraq
Islamic State execute members escaping Anbar to Syria
2017-10-21
[Iraq News] 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
members executed on Friday three comrades for attempting to escape the group’s last stronghold in Iraq towards Syria, a paramilitary source in Anbar was quoted saying.

Almaalomah quoted the source saying that a firing squad from the Death Eater group rubbed out three senior members for sneaking outside the town of Qaim, along with their families, towards Syria’s Boukamal. The execution was witnessed by a large number of group commanders near the town’s hospital.

Since Islamic State forces of Evil took over large areas of Iraq and Syria to establish a self-styled "caliphate" in 2014, Iraqi government forces, backed paramilitary troops and U.S.-led coalition, launched a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions.

So far, the offensives managed to retake djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the group’s former capital, the town of Tal Afar, Kirkuk’s Hawija and Anbar’s Annah. Only Qaim and neighboring Rawa currently remain in IS grip.

Local authorities and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
agencies believe Islamic State members are holding tens of thousands of civilians in western Anbar as future human shields, having killed hundreds for attempting to escape.

A monthly count by the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), which excludes security members deaths, said 196 non-combatants were killed, while 381 others were maimed due to violence and armed conflicts during the month of September.

Posted by:Fred

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