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| ISIS executed 70 Sunni tribesmen in Iraq's Anbar |
| 2015-10-08 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group executed 70 members of a Sunni tribe allied to the government in western Iraq earlier this week, a tribal leader and the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said Wednesday. The victims, members of the Albu Nimr tribe, were executed on Sunday in the Tharthar area north of Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province, tribal elder Naim Gaoud told AFP. "These people who were executed were the fathers and brothers of members of the police, the army... and of tribal fighters who are battling Daesh," he said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. "Daesh executed them by shooting," he said. Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, launched a vast operation west of Ramadi Sunday to tighten the noose on ISIS, which captured the Anbar capital in May and controls most of the province. Hatem al-Gaoud, another clan member reached by phone, said ISIS had trapped dozens of tribe members in the Khanzir area of Tharthar since the jihadist group launched its major offensive in Iraq last year. "They gathered them outside Khanzir and shot them all in the head," he said. "I don't know what ISIS did with the bodies, but it is likely they buried them in mass graves near the site of the execution," he said. The U.N. Mission in Iraq's human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... office said it had been able to confirm the mass execution. "This is not the first attack on the Albu Nimr, since they have been actively opposed to ISIL (ISIS)," it said in an email to AFP. Possibly as many as 300 of the tribe's members were killed around a year ago, when anti-IS forces were still holding out in some parts of Ramadi, which is the Albu Nimr's main hub. The tribe was very active in the Awakening Councils, groups of Sunni tribal fighters the U.S. military paid and armed a decade ago to fight against ISIS's previous incarnation in Iraq. Local tribal fighters are seen by the United States as a key component of any successful effort to retake control of Anbar and other Sunni regions of Iraq IS took over virtually unopposed last year. They no longer receive direct support from the US, whose assistance is channeled through the Shiite-dominated federal government. ISIS has massacred hundreds of former Awakening fighters in an effort to intimidate Sunni residents from taking up arms against them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Human Rights Watch comments expressing outrage in 10...9...8... Funny how HRW doesn't say a word about what these animals do but will do somersaults up their own butt in outrage when we as much as muss the hair on a terrorist's head. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-10-08 06:10 |