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2015-08-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Destruction of Palmyra's Baalshamin temple declared a war crime

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Posted by anon1 2015-08-25 05:06|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 interesting story from the BBC particularly for the list of IS attacks on historical artifacts below including the burning of books from the Mosul library and the destruction of Nimrud

Posted by anon1 2015-08-25 05:08|| 2015-08-25 05:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Worse than Zionists building houses in occupied Palestine?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-25 05:17|| 2015-08-25 05:17|| Front Page Top

#3 So was this UN statement before or after the strongly-worded letter? Nice photos at the link, BTW.

Posted by Bobby 2015-08-25 07:15|| 2015-08-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

#4 It probably means zip. If they hadn't noticed, prisoners have been burned in cages, drowned, women and children raped and killed, people crucified and many people beheaded. The U.N. is a bit late in their concern for antiquities.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-08-25 07:53|| 2015-08-25 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 "So whaddya gonna do about it?"

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-25 08:23|| 2015-08-25 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Sad that they are destroying history in their Islamo-anarchist way. Time to make this group of savages pay was long past due

Posted by Frank G 2015-08-25 08:51|| 2015-08-25 08:51|| Front Page Top

#7 #naughtynaughty

Posted by KBK 2015-08-25 09:52|| 2015-08-25 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Trouble is the perps, assuming they lose, will die of old age before conviction, just like Serb war criminals, just like Khmer Rouge.

Posted by Fred 2015-08-25 12:19|| 2015-08-25 12:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Well that's a start. Now who will enforce it? Anyone? Buller?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-25 12:40|| 2015-08-25 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 is this different than digging up a conferderate general? or destroying a confederate monument? from the ISIS perspective they see it as 'cleaning up'.

If the UN does not like it then they should step up to eliminate ISIS or protect the monuments.

Posted by airandee 2015-08-25 12:44|| 2015-08-25 12:44|| Front Page Top

#11 A bunch of 'pre-hostage' Blue Helmets at historical sites.

The Oyster Bay group probably tore themselves away from the buffet line long enough to figure that to be a 'Bad Idea®'

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-08-25 13:28|| 2015-08-25 13:28|| Front Page Top

#12 It is interesting how the Islamists hate anything that came before Mohammad. Taliban were doing that sort of thing back in the day as well.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-08-25 14:50|| 2015-08-25 14:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Trouble is the perps, assuming they lose, will die of old age before conviction, just like Serb war criminals, just like Khmer Rouge.

What Fred said.

Posted by JHH 2015-08-25 17:45|| 2015-08-25 17:45|| Front Page Top

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