Posted on 05/18/2015 5:01:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants searched door-to-door for policemen and pro-government fighters and threw bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday after capturing the strategic city of Ramadi, their biggest victory since overrunning much of northern and western Iraq last year.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said more than 6,500 families had fled in recent days, with the hospital in the nearby city of Khaldiya reporting many casualties.
Ramadi's streets were deserted a day after the city's fall, with only a few people venturing out of their homes to search for food.
They said IS militants were going door-to-door with lists of government sympathizers, and were breaking into the homes of policemen and pro-government tribesmen, particularly those from the large Al Bu Alwan tribe, some 30 of whom had been detained. Homes and stores owned by pro-government Sunni militiamen were looted or torched.
The militants are now believed to control more than 60 percent of Anbar, which stretches from the western edge of Baghdad all the way to Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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So the Chronicle thinks that people who supported the legitimate government in Iraq -- are no better than the Euros who helped the Nazis???
everyone who has a grudge against another will claim the person he doesn’t like is a collaborator - every girl who turned down a sexual advance will be called out as a collaborator, etc. Same thing happened in Europe as the Nazi invaded.
That was my first thought as well....
Remember the good old days when ‘words meant things’?
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