Kurds make grisly discoveries after retaking ISIS-held territory

Hot Air.com ^ | October 14, 2014 | NOAH ROTHMAN

[Kaslin]

There is mixed news from the two fronts in Iraq and Syria where coalition airpower and indigenous partner forces on the ground are fighting Islamic State militants.

Near the Syrian border city of Kobani, reports indicate that Kurdish defenders are beginning to make some gains as they continue to defend the city against the ISIS onslaught. A key hill atop which ISIS fighters famously planted their flag late last week has reportedly been retaken by Kurdish forces.

“The advance came as the US said it had conducted 21 air strikes near the town, slowing down the IS advance,” the BBC revealed. “Tall Shair hill had been captured more than 10 days ago by IS militants.”

As ISIS retreated from the front near the Syrian-Turkish border, Kurdish forces made a series of gruesome discoveries.

“Refugees in Suruc, Turkey, have told how relatives and neighbors were beheaded by [ISIS] militants, while another spoke of how he had seen ‘hundreds’ of decapitated corpses in the besieged town,” The Independent reported on Tuesday.

[C210N]

forces on the ground are fighting Islamic State militants.

Militants? Sounds more like human-killing locusts.

[ZULU]

The kind of people the American Left LOVE.

[Capt. Tom]

That depressing revelation should concern military advisors who believe Iraqi forces defending Baghdad can hold out against an ISIS assault on Baghdad despite outnumbering the attackers by a reported six-to-one ratio.

If Baghdad is disrupted by Sunni ISIS and the Iraq mongrelized Govt. can't function, it allows Shiite Iran to step in and take over, if Iran is so inclined.-Tom

[Fred Hayek]

Screw Geneva. No captured ISIS, no POWs. Kill them all. Air strikes need to be using cluster munitions and napalm.

[Sasparilla]

The savages have encircled another Iraqi town.Is Obola familiar with around the clock continuous air strikes or B52 carpet bombing of that encirclement?

He should be Chief Executive of a country club.

[combat_boots]

ISIS is the modern Genghis Khan.

“When the armies of Genghis Khan were rampaging across Central Asia, they were brought to a temporary halt by a woman in Bamyan in 1221 AD. She was the ruler of a tribe in Central Afghanistan. Her army had built a fort on a cliff on the side of a mountain. The Army of Genghis Khan attacked her fort, but without success.

Finally, they climbed the mountains above her and found her water supply. They cut off her water. She was forced out. As a lesson to all others who might oppose Genghis Khan, she was killed along with all of her people. Not only were every man, woman and child killed, but even all the domesticated animals and the wild animals were killed too. The villages were plowed under and the trees and the grass were all killed.

Samarkand 950,000 dead

The Mongols encountered resistance in both Bukhara and Samarkand and consequently sacked them both in 1220, decimating their populations, only sparing the artisans that they considered useful. Balkh, Merv and Nishapur followed in 1221.The cities of Yazd and Shiraz were both spared destruction by offering tribute to their marauding armies.

Merv 700,000 dead
From there the Mongols swept across the Iranian interior, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Whole cities were put to the torch and mass killings of women and children as well as fighting men were common.
Aleppo 50,000 dead
Balkh completely destroyed
Khiva completely destroyed
Harran completely destroyed”

I used to want to see Merv. This was rather long ago now.

http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2010/11/mass-murderer-genghis-khan-he-took.html

“In 1221, Merv opened its gates to Tule, son of Genghis Khan, chief of the Mongols, on which occasion most of the inhabitants are said to have been butchered. The Persian historian Juvayni, writing a generation after the destruction of Merv, wrote “The Mongols ordered that, apart from four hundred artisans. .., the whole population, including the women and children, should be killed, and no one, whether woman or man, be spared. To each [Mongol soldier] was allotted the execution of three or four hundred Persians. So many had been killed by nightfall that the mountains became hillocks, and the plain was soaked with the blood of the mighty.”

Some historians believe that over one million people died in the aftermath of the city’s capture, including hundreds of thousands of refugees from elsewhere, making it one of the bloodiest captures of a city in world history.”

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Merv

There are things at Merv now, including ruins. It’s a wrinkle in the road on the steppe. But its history should guide what we see What ISIS is doing now.

[FreeAtlanta]

If anyone deserves the horror of napalm, the animals do. Maybe, the burned survivors would tell future generations that it is not worth the horrible pain.

[RginTN]

so I’m catching up on 24:Live Another Day and think the military should drop the pc bs and be as savage to IS as Jack was when he threw the Mommie jihadist out the window with her hands cuffed...

[Kackikat]

The country club would be out of business as soon as the money ran out....two weeks?

[crusadersoldier]

200 years from now, I want their children’s children’s children’s children
to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead
because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth,
shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines
because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters
crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with
“If you don’t behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you”,
and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.

I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology
will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea
.. the powerful ‘Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers’ wickedness.

- BlueLancer

[longtermmemmory]

200 years from now ....isis?

[onedoug]

hussein enchanted by the carnage

[Textide]

If we could only understand them....

[MarMema]

Scum works for me. Islamic scum.
The chechen leader has taught these evil beings well.

[kitchen]

Read the Anabasis of Zenophon the Athenian, and wonder that two and a half millennia later, a word derived from his name is in common usage.

[publius911]

Maybe, the burned survivors would tell future generations that it is not worth the horrible pain.

I cannot intellectually entertain survivors of this two-legged-animal cult, burned or otherwise.

[skeeter]

The Left has more criticism for a Christian baker who refuse to prepare a gay wedding cake than they do for militant islam sawing off childrens' heads & mutilating womens' genitals.

Miscreant cowards.

[GOPJ]

...relatives and neighbors were beheaded by [ISIS] militants, while another spoke of how he had seen ‘hundreds’ of decapitated corpses in the besieged town,”

Charming people...

[publius911]

200 years from now, I want their children’s children’s children’s children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.
Etc.

This surfaced soon after 911. I wish could remember the original author.

Was it you?