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| Iraq |
| 4 women executed by IS in Iraq |
| 2014-10-12 |
| [ARABNEWS] 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.... group has executed at least four women, including two doctors and a politician, in their northern Iraq strongholds this month, relatives and rights activists said on Saturday. In the IS hub of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the murderous Moslems executed three women on Wednesday including two doctors, Hanaa Edwar, a human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activist who heads the Al-Amal organization, said. A medical source in Mosul confirmed their deaths and named the two doctors as Maha Sabhan and Lamia Ismail. The third woman was a law graduate. On Oct. 5, Iman Mohammed Yunus, a former Sunni parliamentarian from the Iraq Turkmen Front in the city of Tal Afar, farther west toward the Syrian border, was also executed. "They took her from her home last month and called her family this week to say that she had been executed," said Ali Al-Bayati, who runs a foundation supporting the rights of Iraq's Turkmen minority. "Then they dumped her body in a water well outside Tal Afar," he said. According to Edwar, who confirmed Yunus' execution, at least four other women were executed by IS murderous Moslems in the Mosul area in recent weeks. Among them were a former candidate for the local council and an academic. "Women are easy targets for them. Many of the rights activists from Mosul bravely ran away but some of the women among them had to stay with their children," Edwar said. They have used the city, Iraq's second largest, as a de facto capital for the Iraqi half of the "caliphate" which their leadership proclaimed in June and also includes large parts of Syria. "After going after the ethnic and religious minorities, they are now hunting down Sunni members of civil society groups and anyone remotely connected with the government," Edwar said. She said IS was probably trying to sow maximum fear among the population by openly targeting women. "When you abduct and kill women, you are really spreading horror," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 This question could go on many threads. Whatever happened to that "Doctrine of Responsibility to Protect" that was ginned up to get us into Libya? Seems to me that it could have been used against Assad and it could be used now. Was that just a load of manure to play CYA for Obola's crap? Who am I kidding, of course it was. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-12 16:26 |
| #3 Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri - would not be surprising if the old King of Clubs is pulling strings here. |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2014-10-12 16:06 |
| #2 Saddam's old crew are involved. The interesting part will be when the jihadis and the Baathists come to that proverbial crossroads as to who has control. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-12 12:29 |
| #1 ISIS looks more and more like it's run by Saddam's old crew. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-10-12 09:47 |