...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
’s (ISIS) victims - the Khasfa pit.
The Khasfa pit, located some 20 kilometers south of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, was a natural sinkhole used by ISIS as an open mass grave. It is believed to contain the remains of around 4,000 victims.
"Our teams have begun the first phase, which will last for 15 days. Our work includes collecting evidence and the bones and remains that are on the surface of the ground and around the grave area," Ahmed Qusay al-Asadi, head of the initiative’s search and rescue team, told Rudaw.
Asadi explained that numerous complexities, including the presence of unwent
kaboom!bombs among the human remains and the presence of sulfur water, have hampered exhumation efforts. "A deep excavation of the grave requires international assistance, engineering teams, and civil defense," he said.
Nineveh Governor Abdulqadir al-Dakhil labeled the Khasfa pit as "one of the largest mass graves in human history."
"We will work to erect a memorial at this site or another location to commemorate the Khasfa deaders," Dakhil said.
ISIS swept through vast swathes of Iraq in 2014 and declared a so-called caliphate in a brazen offensive that saw the group take control of several Iraqi cities, including the second-largest northern city of Mosul. It was declared territorially defeated in 2017.
During its brutal reign, the jihadists committed untold atrocities on non-Moslems and Shiite Moslems, such as genocide, sexual slavery, and massacres.
The remains of around 400,000 people are estimated to be in mass graves across Iraq, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).