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| Iraq |
| Iraqi militias grow brutal in anti-ISIS fight |
| 2014-11-12 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The vengeance that Iraq's Shiite militias mete out as they fight 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 can be just as savage as that of their sworn sectarian enemies. In a grisly video recently posted online, a Shiite fighter shouts the name of a revered imam in victory as he poses beside decapitated bodies. Another militiaman sits nearby, grinning as he maims a corpse. One bearded militiaman explains the bodies are those of fighters who "killed our comrades." Another man shouts, "Our fighters were good guys. These are dogs." The Shiite militias who have answered the call-to-arms by the government to fight the Islamic State group are growing more brutal, stoked by a desire for Dire Revenge against the Sunni holy warriors who have butchered Shiites who fall into their hands. That vigilantism is posing a challenge for the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, where authorities have been embarrassed by international criticism of the militias and are worried about At the same time, the state can't do without them. The Iraqi army melted away in June when the holy warriors overran the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and has struggled since to regroup. The tens of thousands of fighters in about half a dozen Shiite militias have filled the void. Militias have been credited with many of the recent battlefield victories south and west of Baghdad, while in the north, Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by U.S.-led "The intervention of the Shiite volunteers was vital to saving Iraq," said Shiite politician Faleh Hassan, who joined the Kataeb Hizbollah, one of the most prominent militias. He said he was answering the call by Iraq's top Shiite holy man, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to help fight the krazed killers. He said he fought in the battle that broke the krazed killers' siege on the Shiite-majority town of Amirli in August and later participated in operations to liberate Jurf al-Sakher, a town south of Baghdad. He acknowledged "some misdeeds done by some Shiite fighters." But, he said, "such practices happen during wartime." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 After the Malmedy Massacre Americans generally didn't take SS prisoners. The Canadians having experienced the SS practices in Normandy hadn't taken too many prisoners since then either. You get done on to you what you do on others. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-11-12 20:41 |
| #7 When government forces are ineffective militias or vigilante forces tend to grow to do their jobs. They tend to be less disciplined and more ruthless. They scare governments. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-11-12 17:00 |
| #6 They were poster boys for UNHRC before it? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-12 14:56 |
| #5 What they're best at. And when they're killing each other, they're not killing us. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-11-12 13:27 |
| #4 You cannot expect 7th-Century barbarians to fight using the West's "civilized" means. That's about like asking a dog to climb trees. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-11-12 13:04 |
| #3 wa wa SNACKBAR! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-11-12 10:29 |
| #2 ahhhh, the RoP and the Muslim way of war. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-11-12 07:15 |
| #1 More please, with increased enthusiasm and speed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-12 04:19 |