[NEWS.VICE] Forensic experts in Tikrit have begun the delicate and gruesome task of exhuming mass graves believed to contain the remains of up to 1,700 Shia soldiers captured and killed by the 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....
during the Sunni jihadists' sweeping advance across Iraq last June.
Graphic images of the soldiers being forced into trucks and shot en masse with their hands tied while lying face down in a ditch were posted to social media last year shortly after the men were captured whilst trying to flee the IS advance. Other videos circulated online showed more executions taking place inside the grounds of the palace of former President Saddam Hussein and bodies being tossed into the Tigris River.