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Islamic State mass graves may contain corpses of 1,700 Shi’ite soldiers

Apr 7, 2015 10:26 pm By Robert Spencer

Iraq mass-grave“What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?” asked Khalid al-Atbi, an Iraqi health official. “Savage”? Careful, al-Atbi, or you will tarred as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” And you should know that the Islamic State was only trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60).

And why did the Iraqi military fold up so quickly before the Islamic State? Why was the Islamic State so well trained and well equipped that it was able to overwhelm this Shi’ite force and then murder 1,700 men in cold blood?

“Mass grave sites in Iraq may contain 1,700 corpses, exhumation begins,” Reuters, April 7, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Baghdad: Iraqi forensic teams began on Monday excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by Islamic State militants as they swept across northern Iraq.

The mass killings last June of Shi`ite soldiers from Camp Speicher, a former U.S. base outside the Sunni city of Tikrit, has become a symbol of the brutality of Islamic State fighters and their hatred for Iraq`s Shi`ite majority.

The deaths showed Iraqis that the Islamic State fighters, who have also attacked ethnic and religious minorites as well as fellow Sunni Muslims opposing them, were a threatening new kind of foe.

The images of Shi`ite soldiers being machine-gunned in their hundreds, posted online by the jihadists, could rank as the deadliest single act of bloodshed during a decade of periodic sectarian war in Iraq.

The exhumation of burial sites on the late dictator Saddam Hussein`s presidential compound came days after Islamic State militants were driven from the city by Iraqi forces and Shi`ite paramilitaries.

“We dug up the first mass grave site today. Until now we found at least 20 bodies. Initial indications show indisputably that they were from the Speicher victims,” said Khalid al-Atbi, an Iraqi health official working with the forensic team sent to Tikrit.

“It was a heartbreaking scene. We couldn’t prevent ourselves from breaking down in tears. What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?” he asked….

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  1. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 7, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    A Peaceful Place

    The Sunni and Shia Muslims had all just expired;
    Judgment Day would now reveal which was desired.
    “Side by side” they debated by the Paradise gate.
    Soon the righteous from the “others” would separate.
    Said the gate angel, with a reassuring smile,
    “Each name is pending, no need to rile.”
    “The unearned gift will answer all you needs.”
    Yet, goodwill, none to other, would first concede.
    In their hearts they held but a fragile key.
    Their last chance each refused to see.
    Pious pride demanded sole entry past the gate.
    True Believers need enemies to kill or at least disgrace.
    Not teachable are those who insist to preach.
    Their hateful wishes were all fulfilled for one to each.
    The angel promised that all unworthy names would be erased.
    You see, paradise has no place for these Muslims lacking grace.

    The angel turned away, murmuring along the way.
    “Such a terrible waste,
    so much noise, displayed as faith…
    Ah… Paradise! It quietly waits,
    ever safe beyond self-made gates.”
    “IT’S SUCH A PEACEFUL PLACE.”

    The “True believers” and “Chosen few” nevertheless together abide,
    in that other place, forever trapped, slowly ROASTING “side by side.”

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 8, 2015 at 12:12 am

      correction ‘True Believers’ should read — ‘Deceivers’

      • Jay Airahs says

        Apr 8, 2015 at 1:27 am

        probably no one will read this at this time of night (or care), but the correction above was meant for the middle line not the end,
        True Believers to be (Deceivers) need enemies to kill or at least disgrace.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 7, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    Question: “What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?”

    Answer: A savage barbarian who imitates the savage barbarian MOHAMMED…the pedophile pirate…and thinks MOHAMMED’s atrocities were ‘good’. In other words, a pious Muslim could kill thousands of kafirs in cold blood…or millions.

    Mohammed’s atrocities inspire the atrocities of ISIS.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 7, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    “Why was the Islamic State so well trained and well equipped that it was able to overwhelm this Shi’ite force and then murder 1,700 men in cold blood?”

    The Shi’ite kleptocracy sold military commands to the unqualified. There is no loyalty to the nation in Arab countries…only loyalty to the tribe!

    An Arab national army is a hodge podge of various tribalists who hate their fellow soldiers as much as they hate their external enemies.

  4. Linde Barrera says

    Apr 7, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    To Jay Airahs: You have outdone yourself with that poem!

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 8, 2015 at 12:14 am

      Thank you Linde
      I just made a correction to a word that was in an earlier version that no longer works in this version.

  5. duh_swami says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 7:25 am

    Massacres are not always even in numbers, but massacres are fairly common in history. What I find interesting, is that there never seems to be a shortage of people willing to do this savage and dirty work. Islam seems to have more volunteers than can be counted.

  6. AJ Liberphile says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 7:53 am

    There’s a great litlle meditation here to please share:
    http://liberphile.com/2015/04/08/them-living-at-the-point-of-my-spear/

  7. William says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 9:36 am

    The cold-bloodedness and the scale of the massacre is not unprecedented for Mohammedan atrocities. The Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 saw the Turks defeat the crusader armies. After the battle, the Turks rounded up thousands of defeated European soldiers, with their hands tied and naked, lined them up in front of the Sultan and massacred them either by be-headings or lopping off of limbs. The killing continued from early morning to late afternoon. The slaughter was so horrific and sickening, the Sultan, whose capacity to stomach such a spectacle may have been exceeded, had it prematurely terminated.

  8. pdxnag says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    Just as Human Rights are different under Islam so too must be War Crimes. It is all just an Islamic form of dialog.

  9. lacy says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    the world is abound with madmen who seem to hide behind religion ,

  10. thomas pellow says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 4:35 pm

    Supplementary.

    “Isis mass graves: Iraqi forensic teams recover remains of 1,700 military cadets slaughtered by militants near Tikrit”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-mass-graves-iraqi-forensic-teams-recover-remains-of-1700-military-cadets-slaughtered-by-militants-near-tikrit-10160883.html

  11. gravenimage says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    Islamic State mass graves may contain corpses of 1,700 Shi’ite soldiers
    …………………………….

    *This* is the taoted “Peace of Islam”…

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