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Isil video shows destruction of 3,000-year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud
telegraph.co.uk ^

Posted on 04/12/2015 8:00:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has released a video showing jihadists smashing, bulldozing and blowing up 3,000-year-old artefacts in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud.

The video depicting the destruction at the Iraqi site shows jihadists using sledgehammers and drills to smash huge alabaster reliefs and a bulldozer to bring down walls.

The jihadists are then shown placing barrels apparently filled with explosives before blowing up three separate areas of the site, one of Iraq's greatest archaeological treasures.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: assyrianempire; assyrians; ferengi; godsgravesglyphs; iran; iraq; israel; letshavejerusalem; nimrud; waronterror
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1 posted on 04/12/2015 8:00:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 04/12/2015 8:00:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Do the Assyrians still have their Right to Return?


3 posted on 04/12/2015 8:02:44 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d say Raqqa needs a nuke much more powerful than a 1000 sledgehammers will ever be about now...


4 posted on 04/12/2015 8:03:19 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: BenLurkin

Human history being destroyed the ROP... Sad.


5 posted on 04/12/2015 8:16:27 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: BenLurkin

All they do is destroy. Brute force is all they seem to know.


6 posted on 04/12/2015 8:16:51 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Paladin2

What will these demons need to do to bring the wrath of civilization down on their heads? NOT a rhetorical question. They have murdered, destroyed, raped and plundered everything and everyone in their wake. Still they are treated as misunderstood juvenile delinquents by our coward president. If they slaughter every queer in range perhaps he will do something other than quiver in a WH corner.


7 posted on 04/12/2015 8:17:45 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: BenLurkin

THe Kaaba itself is a pagan shrine and the black stone was a pagan false god from pre-islamic times. Nobody worships the archeological remains of Nimrud, but a billion muslims worship the pre-islamic idols of Kaaba. Why don’t these demonic hypocrites take up sledgehammers against the black stone and the Kaaba?


8 posted on 04/12/2015 8:22:35 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: BenLurkin
They are murderously hostile to humanity: past, present and future.

It's almost as if they were demonic.

9 posted on 04/12/2015 8:25:49 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. -Jn 16:2)
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To: BenLurkin

Islam is not a religion and its followers are destructive in every action. while it may not be worth killing them over destroying our world’s history, as this is not just local history, it further proves how repugnant and unredeemable Islam really is. This is not a religion, it is a cult based not on peace, but on wonton destruction, rape, pillage, and violence.


10 posted on 04/12/2015 8:32:30 AM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: Beowulf9

Destruction is right. Destruction of human life, destruction of history, destruction of civility. War exists everywhere Islam exists. If, God forbid, the world ever became completely Muslim, it would be better if the apes took over.


11 posted on 04/12/2015 8:36:47 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.

12 posted on 04/12/2015 8:47:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: BenLurkin

If we had a president, we might have been able to help preserve human history, instead we have someone who lives in the White House and plays golf.


13 posted on 04/12/2015 8:54:39 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting article regarding Nimrod by Walid Shoebat...

http://shoebat.com/2015/03/05/isis-razes-the-city-of-nimrod-where-the-tower-of-babel-was-believed-to-have-been-built/


14 posted on 04/12/2015 9:25:52 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: BenLurkin

Another triumph of Obama’s (and Hillary’s) “smart power” approach to foreign policy.


15 posted on 04/12/2015 10:02:51 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: BenLurkin
Fortunately most of the Ninevah mound was mapped and surveyed more than a century ago, though this does add to the urgency of relieving Mosil, which we should have already accomplished, if only for the sake of our own national credibility and future security.

That being said, the true extent of unmapped treasures in that area are still under the untapped and ancient city centers of Erbil, for example, and elsewhere, still outside the filthy grasp and resources of these murdering swine.

daaesh trash.

16 posted on 04/12/2015 10:07:47 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Prospero

Trying to look on the bright side, at a later date
perhaps some artifacts will come to light that
would not have been discovered without this
destruction.


17 posted on 04/12/2015 10:12:17 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: BenLurkin

An example of why it is good that Western museums, especially outside of Europe (as the muslims will destroy them too), exist.


18 posted on 04/12/2015 10:34:14 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BenLurkin

OK.

One of the reason we haven’t totally obliterated that area, at least back before we had a mzzie _resident, was that precious artifacts and antiquities that belonged to the history of humanity were there.

Now they are gone, so......


19 posted on 04/12/2015 11:35:02 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

Good point!


20 posted on 04/12/2015 11:38:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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