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Iraq
Islamic State Militants Seize Wheat From State Silos
2014-08-14
It wasn't nailed down, so by definition it belongs to the jihadis. If it were nailed down, a local could bloody well unnail it in order to keep his head, at which point the definition obviously applies.
[Ynet] A top Iraqi government grains official said on Wednesday that Islamic State holy warriors are taking wheat from state silos in northern and western Iraq, in order to mill it there and in neighbouring Syria.

Hassan Ibrahim, Director General of the Grain Board of Iraq, the Trade Ministry body responsible for procuring Iraq's wheat internationally and from local farmers, told Rooters the holy warriors had seized wheat in recent weeks from government silos in the provinces of Nineveh and Anbar.

Between 40,000 and 50,000 tonnes of the crop was taken from government silos in Tal Afar and Sinjar in Nineveh Province, where hundreds of thousands of residents, many of them ethnic and religious minorities, have fled the bad boy onslaught.
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