[DAWN] Iraqi forces discovered a mass grave on Sunday after retaking an area from the hard boy 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....
(IS) group near Fallujah,
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the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called
Center of Prosperityor
a really nice place to raise your kids...
where the
Growing numbers of families reaching camps south of Fallujah told horrific accounts of how IS shot at them as they fled, but there was still no escape for the tens of thousands believed trapped in the city centre.
In Saqlawiya, northwest of Fallujah, Iraqi forces found a burial site thought to contain the bodies of around 400 people, most of them soldiers executed by IS in 2014 and 2015.
"The security forces of the federal police, the army and the Hashed al-Shaabi found a mass grave in the Shuhada neighbourhood during a mine clearing operation," a police colonel said.
He said most of the victims, whose remains were being transferred for identification, appeared to have been shot in the head.
"The mass grave also includes civilians executed by ISIS (IS) on various charges such as spying or breaking the organization's rules," said Rajeh Barakat, a member of the provincial council of Anbar, where Fallujah is located.
Iraqi forces launched a vast operation on May 22-23 to retake Fallujah, which lies only 50 kilometres west of Baghdad and is one of the hard boys' most emblematic bastions.
The first phase of the operation was aimed at sealing the siege on the city by cutting the hard boy group's supply lines in outlying areas, including in Saqlawiya.
| The Times of Israel has more anecdotes, including this: |
Islamic State fighters are once again reported to be fleeing an area under siege -- by dressing up as women.The semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency said on Monday that Iraqi security forces had jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
"a large number" of IS fighters as they hid among civilian refugees fleeing from Fallujah,
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the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called
Center of Prosperityor
a really nice place to raise your kids...
an Islamic State bastion now being contested by Iraqi troops.
| There is a video of a pretty one at the Israel Times link. Enjoy! |
One man said residents saw IS members shaving their beards Sunday for the first time, as they have done in the past to try to mingle with fleeing civilians when they are about to lose a town to the Iraqi forces.