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Water-Borne Disease Plagues Islamic State-Held City in Iraq
NDTV ^ | December 01, 2014 15:43 IST | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 12/04/2014 5:33:33 AM PST by wtd

Baghdad: When Islamic State group fighters swept into northern Iraq's second city Mosul in a lightning June offensive, their propaganda trumpeted a better life for the people under jihadist rule.

Now, nearly six months later, residents there are suffering from a lack of clean water and also a shortage of medicine to treat illnesses caused by it.

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But "the hardships of the locals certainly undermine IS claims to be a state meeting the needs of the people and offering them real security," he said.


(Excerpt) Read more at ndtv.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: iraq; mosul; plagues; waterbornedisease
paraphrase a quote from Churchill: "Islam is not a child of the desert, rather its father."
1 posted on 12/04/2014 5:33:34 AM PST by wtd
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To: wtd

Seal it off and let them lay in the bed they have made.


2 posted on 12/04/2014 5:50:21 AM PST by soycd
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To: wtd

Living in the purity of the life of moHAMmed.
They should be happy.


3 posted on 12/04/2014 5:55:15 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: wtd

Sounds like the Will of Allah.


4 posted on 12/04/2014 6:13:18 AM PST by Paladin2
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It seems that these moozlums deserve their fate. They did not fight to the death the isis moozlums. They gave up. Life is tough.


5 posted on 12/04/2014 6:58:20 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: wtd

Muslims, said Bernard Lewis, are not the children of the desert but the fathers.


6 posted on 12/04/2014 11:52:15 AM PST by wtd
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I feel soooooo bad for them. I guess you reap death, you sow death.


7 posted on 12/04/2014 3:18:20 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."- Benjamin Franklin)
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