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Officials: ISIS blows up Jonah's tomb in Iraq
CNN ^ | 7/24/2014

Posted on 07/24/2014 6:05:01 PM PDT by markomalley

If you blink during the video, you might miss the moment Jonah's tomb in Mosul, Iraq, explodes.

The first few frames show the revered shrine towering over its landscape. There's a sudden burst of dust, fire and smoke.

Then, nothing.

CNN could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video, which was posted to YouTube.

The holy site is thought to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale or fish in both the Islamic and Judeo-Christian traditions.

Militants belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, planted explosives around the tomb and detonated the explosion remotely Thursday, civil defense officials there told CNN.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; jonah; jonahtomb; rop
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1 posted on 07/24/2014 6:05:01 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

I saw a you tube of the ISIS bass turds sledge hammering it, supposedly


2 posted on 07/24/2014 6:07:23 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: markomalley

Abominable, disgusting, a total travesty.

And where is Barack Soebarkah? FUNDRAISING?! I HATE this usurper!!!!!! He is undoubtedly the most feckless world leader in the history of humankind. Neville Chamberlain X 100000


3 posted on 07/24/2014 6:08:40 PM PDT by Viennacon (Barry Obama? No... Barack Hussein Soebarkah.)
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To: markomalley

Just damn.


4 posted on 07/24/2014 6:09:06 PM PDT by mware
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To: markomalley

Only Scum of the earth would do this.


5 posted on 07/24/2014 6:12:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: markomalley

Well, they know the Iraqis are too timid to take back their country, the American regime is busy with its collective head up its ass, and Europe is typically paralyzed in its own apathy.

Thus, ISIS can act with total impunity.


6 posted on 07/24/2014 6:13:32 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: markomalley
"I also underscored the point that, in the absence of political movement [towards 'a government that is inclusive and representative of all Iraqis'], any support the U.S. Government might consider providing could have only limited, short-term effects," [CENTCOMCINC] Austin said in a statement.

Well, by the time the long term rolls around, all the Christians will be dead and everything Holy will be blown to smithereens. Sometimes you have to fight the fire before you worry about installing sprinkler systems.

And you can be damned sure ISIS isn't worried about inclusiveness.

7 posted on 07/24/2014 6:15:11 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Viennacon

I believe we better get ready to suffer more loss and some of it much closer to home.


8 posted on 07/24/2014 6:15:38 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Viennacon
Øbama certainly has it over Nero, fiddling fundraising while Rome the world burns.
9 posted on 07/24/2014 6:16:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: markomalley

Well, the tomb was apparently built on top of some Assyrian ruins; and archaeologists could never dig at the site because the mosque was there. Now that is (or will be) changed.

And—hence—maybe some real info about Jonah might turn up.


10 posted on 07/24/2014 6:20:33 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: markomalley

Somewhere Obama is smiling.


11 posted on 07/24/2014 6:21:51 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: RitaOK

Undoubtedly.

We have the capability to CARPET BOMB Isis into the stone age, but who expect Obama to take on his friends?


12 posted on 07/24/2014 6:21:53 PM PDT by Viennacon (Barry Obama? No... Barack Hussein Soebarkah.)
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To: markomalley

The mid-eastern klansmen’s jihad advances relentlessly. Paleo-nazis cleansing their lands. History unfolding and evidences of an alternative ideology wiped out forever.


13 posted on 07/24/2014 6:23:57 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: markomalley
Islam's War Against Civilization is far from over.
14 posted on 07/24/2014 6:25:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: NonValueAdded

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc


15 posted on 07/24/2014 6:31:32 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: markomalley
I saw Obama dancing with delight, the day Christianity died.
16 posted on 07/24/2014 6:32:23 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: markomalley

That did not look like an ancient building to me. It had a tower that looked like a Islamic Minaret which hardly could be ancient. I betting it was a Shiite Mosque


17 posted on 07/24/2014 6:37:07 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: markomalley

Jonah stayed in Nineveh? I thought he hated the place.


18 posted on 07/24/2014 6:37:19 PM PDT by DManA
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To: CondorFlight

“some real info about Jonah might turn up”

The facts are in The Book.


19 posted on 07/24/2014 6:43:50 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: ScottinVA
Thus, ISIS can act with total impunity.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Galatians 6:7

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, Hebrews 9:27

20 posted on 07/24/2014 6:52:40 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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