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| Islamic State Frees over 200 Yazidis in Iraq | |
| 2015-04-09 | |
| [AnNahar] 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.... group has freed more than 200 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority it held captive for months, a commander in the Kurdish peshmerga security forces said Wednesday. "We have received 227 Yazidis, among them women and kiddies" in the northern province of Kirkuk Wednesday, Major General Westa Rasul told AFP. "We negotiated for days with tribal sheikhs in Hawijah and were able to free the kidnapped Yazidis," Rasul said, referring to an IS-controlled town in Kirkuk. The Yazidis were actually freed Monday in Nineveh province, northwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... but did not make their way to a Kurdish-controlled territory until two days later, he said. The mass release of the Yazidis, kidnapped in Nineveh last year, is the second of its kind, after some 200 mainly elderly people were set free in January. A sweeping IS offensive overran large areas north and west of Baghdad last June. A second drive in August targeted areas in the north that were home to many of Iraq's minorities. The Yazidis, who are neither Moslems nor Arabs, practice a unique faith and are considered infidels by the jihadists. They were hit harder than others. They looked in danger of being wiped out of their ancestral land until a U.S.-led air campaign turned the tide on IS advances in northern Iraq. The U.N. has said the IS campaign of killings, abductions and rape against Yazidis may amount to genocide.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Smart move. Let someone else fee them. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-04-09 13:26 |