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| Iraq |
| New IS Video Shows Kurdish Fighters in Cages |
| 2015-02-23 |
| [AnNahar] 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 released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages. The video shows 21 captives presented as 16 peshmerga fighters, two Iraqi army officers and three coppers from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a city about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad. The captives, in orange jumpsuits with their heads lowered, are led to cages in a square surrounded by concrete walls and masked IS fighters carrying pistols. A bearded man in a white turban warns the peshmerga against fighting IS. Then the caged captives are shown being paraded through the streets on the back of pick-up trucks, as dozens of residents and gunnies look on. The date and location is not specified in the video, but Kurdish sources told Agence La Belle France Presse it was filmed a week earlier in the main market of Hawija, an IS-held town some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Kirkuk. The video does not contain any explicit threats to the captives but they are shown at the end kneeling before masked men holding automatic weapons or pistols. The video also features images from previous IS videos, including of the killing of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh, who was burned alive in a cage, and the beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians, mainly from Egypt, in Libya. A peshmerga commander in Kirkuk, General Hiyowa Rash, told AFP that the peshmerga hostages had been captured on January 31 "when Kurdish fighters repelled a terrorist attack by IS targeting Kirkuk." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 FYI there are unconfirmed MSM-Net Artics claiming or alleging that many or all of these Kurdish Peshmerga were quietly killed = beheaded after the video was made??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-23 19:15 |