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| Iraq |
| Amnesty: All sides violated international law in Mosul |
| 2017-07-12 |
| [Al Jazeera] It also said that fighters from 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group flagrantly violated that same law by deliberately putting civilians in harm's way to shield its fighters and impede the advance of Iraqi and coalition forces. In a report published a day after Iraqi forces declared victory in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... watchdog called for a thorough investigation into whether war crimes were committed in the battle for the city. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared victory in Mosul on Monday, three years after the ISIS group seized the city. With air support from the US-led coalition, Iraqi forces launched the battle for Mosul in October, retaking the eastern part of the city in January and starting the operation for its western part the next month. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 ...it doesn't. The whole purpose of agreements is a contract, binding on both parties. When party A violates the agreement, party B is under no compulsion to adhere to it either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-12 15:31 |
| #7 international humanitarian law... They keep using that phrase as if it actually means something. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-07-12 14:41 |
| #6 Oh, is it fund-raising time again? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-12 10:46 |
| #5 Amnesty: "All sides violated international law in Mosul. That's why Israel is at fault" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-07-12 10:36 |
| #4 In other news, water is still wet, ice is still cold, sky is still blue and liberals are still idiots. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-07-12 10:29 |
| #3 putting civilians in harm's way to shield its fighters Yeah, that and the beheadings, immolations and wholesale slaughter. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-07-12 10:19 |
| #2 Yep. Everybody's happy now! |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-07-12 10:06 |
| #1 Just like penalties on both teams playing in an NFL game. They cancel each other out. |
| Posted by: texhooey 2017-07-12 01:52 |