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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Sat May 2, 2015, 12:12 PM May 2015

ISIS militants execute 600 Yezidis northern Iraq

On Friday the so-called Sharia Court of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) reportedly executed 600 hostages from the Yezidi community of Shingal (Sinjar) in the Talafar district in northern Iraq.

The group piled the bodies into the well of Alo Antar on al-Ayyadiya highway, local sources reported.

Shahin Shingali, a fighter in the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, stated to ARA News that since Friday the IS radicals transferred nearly 700 Yezidi hostages to Talafar.

“Without a direct intervention by the international community, Iraq will be witnessing more genocides against innocent people at the hands of the IS terrorists,” Shingali said.

http://aranews.net/2015/05/isis-militants-execute-600-yezidis-northern-iraq/

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ISIS militants execute 600 Yezidis northern Iraq (Original Post) Jesus Malverde May 2015 OP
We're watching a genocide before our very eyes riderinthestorm May 2015 #1
How absolutely horrid. ISIS needs to be wiped out sooner rather than later. Comrade Grumpy May 2015 #2
It's awful, but not a single shit was given 40 years ago hifiguy May 2015 #3
I don't know if that's true, and what does it have to do with anything, anyway? Comrade Grumpy May 2015 #7
Just that reactions seem disproportionate sometimes. hifiguy May 2015 #9
Good post! polly7 May 2015 #10
Horrible. Glimmer of Hope May 2015 #4
Murderous scumbags. nt sufrommich May 2015 #5
Those aren't "executions." That's genocide alcibiades_mystery May 2015 #6
Genocide is a word that gets tossed around a lot, but these assholes qualify. Comrade Grumpy May 2015 #8
 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
1. We're watching a genocide before our very eyes
Sat May 2, 2015, 12:30 PM
May 2015


You may want to add a graphic warning to your subject line. While I'm not sensitive to a picture like that, I know others are.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. Just that reactions seem disproportionate sometimes.
Sat May 2, 2015, 02:35 PM
May 2015

The US created both monsters - ISIS is run by army officers that Chimpoleon's minions cashiered and the Nixon-Kissinger push of the Vietnam War into Cambodia gave rise to the Khmer Rouge. I guess the appropriate conclusion is that the US should stop fucking around with the world, especially in places it knows absolutely nothing about. When it does, results like this are inevitable.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
10. Good post!
Sat May 2, 2015, 02:40 PM
May 2015
#t=177

Truth in Media: The Origin Of Isis

“That’s how we got to where we are, because of war, because of occupation, because of torture,” Keaton said. “The United States government completely destabilized and wrecked Iraq. They caused it to fail miserably and that is entirely the fault of the United States government. There is no one else to blame.”


..........“Then, came a pivotal moment that most Americans aren’t even aware of,” Swann said. “In June 2013, a Northern General for the Free Syrian Army spoke out on Al Jazeera Qatar and stated that if international forces did not send weapons, the rebels attempting to overthrow Syrian president Bashar al-Assad would lose their war within a month.”

Swann noted that just months before this occurred he had personally confronted President Obama on the issue of why the U.S. was covertly funding Syrian rebels. Although Obama acted as if he was proceeding with caution, politicians such as Senator John McCain demanded action.

“Within a matter of weeks of the Syrian general making his plea for international help, the U.S., the Saudis, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and Israel began providing weapons, training and money to so-called rebel groups like the Free Syrian Army,” Swann said.

In September 2013, American media outlets began reporting that weapons were being given to Syrian rebels. CNN reported that while the weapons are not “American-made,” they were “funded and organized by the CIA.”


Full article: http://benswann.com/truth-in-media-the-origin-of-isis/


ISIS militants execute 600 Yezidis northern Iraq OP - how horribly sad.
 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
8. Genocide is a word that gets tossed around a lot, but these assholes qualify.
Sat May 2, 2015, 02:04 PM
May 2015

And we helped create these monsters.

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