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| Iraq |
| ISIL Releases New Footage of 2014 Tikrit Massacre |
| 2015-07-13 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] The so-called '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 the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group on Saturday released new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits in Tikrit. The highest estimates put at 1,700 the number of cadets ISIL gunnies captured at the Speicher military base near Tikrit and executed at various locations, mostly in the city's former presidential palace complex. The 22-minute video posted on the terrorist forums, which included both new and previously released footage, showed hundreds of executions, providing further evidence of the scope of the atrocity. Some of the victims are shown pleading for their lives, attempting to explain they had only just joined the security forces. The grisly footage showed executions on an industrial scale, with victims falling out of dump trucks and later lying side by side in shallow mass graves before being rubbed out one by one. The killing went on into the night and the video showed an excavator being used to move piles of bodies. Around 600 bodies have been exhumed since government and allied fighters retook Tikrit from ISIL in April but many of the victims were dumped into the Tigris river. Combined with a call by the country's top holy man Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani for Iraqis to take up arms against ISIL, the Speicher massacre played a key role in the mass recruitment of Iraqi volunteers to fight the terrorists. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 This is particular sickening, considering the blood, treasure, capabilities, and resources poured into FOB Speicher by the U.S. Army. Had a contingent remained there, it is likely none of this would have happened. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-13 05:34 |
| #1 Katyn Forest massacre killed about 22k. Still, the Camp Speicher is one of the bloodiest massacres of military prisoners. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-07-13 05:28 |