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Witnesses Describe How Islamists Leveled Sunni Village As a Warning (Iraq)
McClatchy ^ | Friday, July 11, 2014 | Mohammed al Dulaimy and Hannah Allam

Posted on 07/12/2014 7:19:10 AM PDT by kristinn

To the villagers who fled, Zowiya is now a graveyard for all they’ve ever known. Their houses have been razed, their neighbors are dead, and their tribal codes have been violated in ways they never dreamed possible.

For the extremist fighters who overran Zowiya this week in a fury of mortars and bullets, the ruins of the Sunni Muslim village carry a different symbolism: an example for any “turncoats” who dare resist the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate.

“What we saw is nothing like anything in all of history, not even under Hulagu,” said a 55-year-old survivor of the attack, Abu Omar al Jubouri, alluding to the 13th century Mongol ruler who laid waste to Baghdad.

The Islamic State heralded the “cleansing” of the village, which is near Tikrit in northern Iraq, in an Internet posting, bragging that it had blown up villagers’ homes, which it called “hideouts,” killed 28, wounded many more and driven the remainder from the village. It warned that “all those who may even think about fighting the Islamic State and conspiring against the caliphate can know what their fate will be.”

The threat was clearly aimed at any suggestion that Sunni Muslim tribes would organize to fight the Islamic State _ a strategy that the U.S. military used to defeat al Qaida in Iraq during the American occupation. The extremist rebels now have seized roughly half the country with little resistance from Iraq’s hobbled army, and it’s unclear how they could be routed short of a tribal uprising or foreign airstrikes.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hulagu; iraq; isis; religionofpeace; sunni
More at the source link. Worse than Hulagu means worse than Saddam. But to liberals, probably not as bad as Bush.
1 posted on 07/12/2014 7:19:10 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

For all of those who thought ISIS was “just” a Sunni group that was part of the Sunni-Shiite conflict...which is how Bambi tries to portray it, just a “sectarian conflict.”

It’s not. ISIS is fighting against the West and its model of civil society, and anybody, regardless of their sect of Islam, who looks as if they might support a modern state in Iraq is the enemy in their eyes.


2 posted on 07/12/2014 7:30:47 AM PDT by livius
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To: kristinn

“See you in New York”.


3 posted on 07/12/2014 7:41:23 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: kristinn

Let this be a warning. The bearded savages can do nothing but maim, rape, destroy and murder.


4 posted on 07/12/2014 7:42:59 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: kristinn

I think that “worse than Hulagu” refers to Genghis Khan’s grandson, the last guy to conquer Baghdad before the Americans.


5 posted on 07/12/2014 7:52:51 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Cap Huff

They are killing their allies....this is going to end badly for ISIS


6 posted on 07/12/2014 8:15:09 AM PDT by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: livius

ISIS is Moslems being Moslems. No more and no less.


7 posted on 07/12/2014 8:39:07 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Dog

It is another step toward the eventual barroom brawl scenario.


8 posted on 07/12/2014 8:59:50 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: kristinn
They said one man who’d lost a leg in an earlier, unrelated bombing couldn’t run and was left behind, his wife by his side.
9 posted on 07/12/2014 9:23:25 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: kristinn; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ...

If this is what proponents of the Religion of Peace do to fellow Muslims, what would they do to Americans if they had the chance?


10 posted on 07/12/2014 11:02:59 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Junk Silver
“See you in New York”.

Is this really a loss?

11 posted on 07/12/2014 11:14:42 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

The seem to apply the same standard to anyone they deem an enemy or in their way, fellow Muslim or not.


12 posted on 07/13/2014 12:41:04 AM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: depressed in 06
Is this really a loss?

Only if Mooslimbs cause it. In that case, it calls for a nuclear response with no thought as to the sensibilities of the dead New Yawkers!

13 posted on 07/13/2014 12:58:02 AM PDT by cynwoody
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