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Iraq
Islamic State: Diary of life in Mosul
2014-11-30
[BBC] The northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
fell to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) in June, bringing the population under the harsh rule of the jihadists. The Death Eaters swiftly introduced a regime in accordance with their radical version of Islam, including brutal punishments, strict rules for women and intolerance of any dissent.
jpal asked yesterday why the information coming from Iraq is so trivial. I offer this, these diary entries, as a partial answer.
Posted by:trailing wife

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