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Some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority have been massacred by Islamic State militants in a village in Iraq's north, Kurdish officials said. “They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,” senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters.
“We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed.” In addition to the murders, local women were kidnapped from the village, another Kurdish official source told Reuters. A local Yazidi lawmaker confirmed the information. According to BasNews, a Kurdish website, it was the Yazidi minority village of Kojo some 20 km south of Sinjar that came under attack by the Islamic State (former ISIS) radicals.
BasNews reports that around 80 men – the village’s whole male population – was slaughtered, while all the women were kidnapped. The killings in the village lasted for about an hour, according to eyewitness reports, based on the testimony of Yazidi MP Mahama Khalil who spoke to survivors. Apparently, the massacre followed a five day ultimatum to convert to Islam or die.
“[An IS fighter] told me that the Islamic State had spent five days trying to persuade villagers to convert to Islam and that a long lecture was delivered about the subject today,” Reuters quotes a man from a neighbouring village as saying. “He then said the men were gathered and shot dead. The women and girls were probably taken to Tal Afar because that is where the foreign fighters are.”
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.
The resolution stated that the UNSC “deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist acts of ISIL (Islamic State) and its violent extremist ideology, and its continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law,” adding that those who finance, recruit or supply weapons to the insurgents might be sanctioned as well.
originally posted by: Hellas
From the link in the OP
The resolution stated that the UNSC “deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist acts of ISIL (Islamic State) and its violent extremist ideology, and its continued gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law,” adding that those who finance, recruit or supply weapons to the insurgents might be sanctioned as well.
Condemning in the strongest terms? Well this is going to be a HUGE relieve to those hiding in caves and starving. Just laughable!!!
originally posted by: Hellas
a reply to: dinogirl
They can and will do whatever they want. ISIS (or IS or whatever they want to be called) has the highest blessings from the US government. When you see this filthy something called John McCain, having tea with the Leader of ISIS a couple of years back, you realize in what a f# up world we live in.
originally posted by: Hellas
a reply to: dinogirl
They can and will do whatever they want. ISIS (or IS or whatever they want to be called) has the highest blessings from the US government. When you see this filthy something called John McCain, having tea with the Leader of ISIS a couple of years back, you realize in what a f# up world we live in.
originally posted by: Fylgje
originally posted by: Hellas
a reply to: dinogirl
They can and will do whatever they want. ISIS (or IS or whatever they want to be called) has the highest blessings from the US government. When you see this filthy something called John McCain, having tea with the Leader of ISIS a couple of years back, you realize in what a f# up world we live in.
Yep. This group is doing Israel and the US gov's job for them. It makes sense. Why else would war-mongering lunatic have a photo-op with his buddies? It's sickening. What this group is doing is crimes against humanity.
originally posted by: dinogirl
Also, Israel have their hands full with hamas right now.
This is a discussion about a major terrorist threat to the world right now, and how the world seems to be doing the minimal about it.
originally posted by: projectvxn
You don't end crap like this by being nice, diplomatic, and humanitarian. You end it by sending a powerful and capable Army to kill them until the either quit fighting or are eradicated entirely.
That is all I will say on this issue.
originally posted by: Hellas
a reply to: dinogirl
They can and will do whatever they want. ISIS (or IS or whatever they want to be called) has the highest blessings from the US government. When you see this filthy something called John McCain, having tea with the Leader of ISIS a couple of years back, you realize in what a f# up world we live in.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
OOO...U.N. sanctions against financing ISIS!!!!!!!!! I'll bet they're shaking in their blood-soaked sandals!
These animals already have billions in stolen funds from Iraqi banks and make 1-2M per day through selling stolen Iraqi oil.
Time to bomb these cockroaches.
originally posted by: Hellas
ISIS militants massacre 80 Yazidis, kidnap women in Iraqi village
So what exactly are those attacks trying to prevent if this is still happening?
The US Air Force could have erased them long time ago, but it seems that ISIS is serving another purpose.
Just disgusting!!
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Lopez told WND she sees a pattern in Obama’s actions, or inaction, that reveals his blueprint for the Middle East and Northern Africa is to let the warring jihadi factions, the Sunnis and the Shiites, divide the region into two spheres of influence, and for the U.S. to withdraw.
“The administration’s plan, I believe, is to remove American power and influence, including military forces, from Islamic lands,” Lopez asserted.
When WND remarked that was just what Osama bin Laden had demanded, Lopez pointed out that is the aim of all jihadis, “Because that is what Islam demands, that foreign forces be kicked out of Islamic lands.”
Does Obama think if we leave the Mideast the jihadis will then leave us alone?
“I don’t know,” she said. “I can just see the pattern that is enabling the rise of Islam, empowering the Muslim Brotherhood domestically and abroad, alienating and distancing ourselves from our friends and allies and debilitating the American military.”...