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2016-04-08 Iraq

Video: Is the Iraqi army executing IS fighters?

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Posted by Fred 2016-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 Like mad dogs, the only cure is death.

Is the Iraqi Army Executing IS Fighters?

I think the majority of us would say:

"I certainly hope so, we don't want them going home to Paris, London, Detroit, or Rome and plying their craft there"

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-04-08 00:15|| 2016-04-08 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Under international law, the execution of a hostage or war prisoner is considered a "war crime".

Is this Geneva convention crap? Doesn't apply here.

Posted by gorb 2016-04-08 00:45|| 2016-04-08 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 No. They send them for re-education.

p.s. What Iraqi army? It's Shia militias/IRGC.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-08 01:57|| 2016-04-08 01:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, gorb, it is crap created by the usual suspects (the Left and their own Mouth of Sauron, the MSM). The Convention requires compliance by the signatories and observance of the convention. Don't follow the convention, don't get the protection of the convention. IS is neither a signatory nor a follower of the rules, thus they are not covered.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-08 08:17|| 2016-04-08 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds to like they are following the Geneva Convention concerning Illegal Combatants. No mention of the context of the video or its source. Were they convicted of a crime?

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-08 08:21|| 2016-04-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Aren't these the people that sent waves of children out to clear minefields?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-04-08 09:23|| 2016-04-08 09:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Hopefully they are.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-04-08 11:52|| 2016-04-08 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 It's Shia militias/IRGC

Cognitive dissonance. Happens all the time to "Those Who 'Care'".

Posted by Pappy 2016-04-08 15:04|| 2016-04-08 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Under international law, the execution of a hostage or war prisoner is considered a "war crime".

Not a crime if the shooters win the war.

Posted by badanov 2016-04-08 16:39|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-04-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Skid, IIRC, it was the Iranian Army that marched kids into minefields in the Iran-Iraq war. After a while they got tired of cleaning up all the scattered body parts, so they made the kids wrap themselves into blankets so the bodies weren't so scattered.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-04-08 17:04|| 2016-04-08 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Re: @#10. See, they ARE humanitarians

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-08 20:42|| 2016-04-08 20:42|| Front Page Top

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