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| Iraq |
| Islamic State kidnaps 170 over flag burning |
| 2015-01-03 |
| [IsraelTimes] Jihadist group seizes dozens of men from northern Iraqi villages as part of investigation into desecration of its banner 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.... jihadist group seized dozens of men from two villages in northern Iraq on Friday while searching for people who burned its flag, officials and residents said. An intelligence officer said that a total of 170 men were taken from the villages of Al-Shajara and Gharib in Kirkuk province, after two IS flags were burned in the area, an account confirmed by other officials from the province. “Members of the (IS) organization who were driving around 30 vehicles took the kidnapped (people) to the centre of Hawijah,” a nearby town where they have a court and a prison, the officer said. A resident of Al-Shajara said that women pleaded with the IS murderous Moslems not to harm the men, to which the fighters responded that they would investigate and only punish those responsible for the flag burning in the village. A resident from Gharib said they took around 90 people from that village, and that the fighters said they were searching for 15 men who burned their flag there. It is not the first time IS has turned to mass detentions as it seeks to quell resistance in the swathes of territory in Iraq that it has overrun since June. It seized 50 people in Kirkuk province after residents burned one of their positions and flag in September, and 20 more the following week for allegedly forming a resistance group. Some of those seized by IS have been subsequently released. But the group has also executed thousands of people in areas it controls in Iraq and Syria, sometimes in grisly beheadings it videotapes and posts online. |
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