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| ISIS blows up ancient temple in Syria's Palmyra |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Death Eaters on Sunday blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities chief told AFP. "Daesh placed a large quantity of explosives in the temple of Baal Shamin today and then blew it up causing much damage to the temple," said Maamoun Abdulkarim, using another name for ISIS. Over the past several months, ISIS have blown up and defaced historical sites and artifacts across their sprawling self-proclaimed "caliphate" stretching across Iraq and Syria. ISIS took control of Palmyra in May, located in the central desert region of the country, sparking worldwide concern that they would destroy its 2,000 year-old ruins. Last week, the Death Eaters caused uproar when they beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old antiquities scholar living in Palmyra, reportedly because he refused to reveal where some artifacts were hidden. In June, ISIS destroyed two ancient Moslem mausoleums in Palmyra. Then in July, the Death Eaters used Palmyra's ancient amphitheatre as a stage to kill 25 Syrian solidiers, and released a video of the mass execution. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 they sure were, grom one human being I do feel really sad for is the 82-year-old chief archeologist, who refused to tell IS where the treasures were hidden, and they beheaded him. He gave his life to protect a treasure of civilisation What a wonderful man. How awful to kill an 82-year-old. That made me actually cry. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-08-24 23:03 |
| #4 Certainly, the former inhabitants were, a lot, more civilized than the current ones. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-24 09:21 |
| #3 that was a treasure of history for the entire world. it stood for thousands of years. i know it is callous but i care more about that than the people killed because there will always be more people but that is gone forever. it was cultural heritage for all of us. i wanted to see it one day and now i never will. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-08-24 08:44 |
| #2 Troglodytes doing what they do--tearing down civilizations and killing people. Obumble aiding and abetting the effort. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-24 07:24 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Vinegar Smith1154 2015-08-24 05:55 |