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IRAQ ARMY KILLS 17 IN ANTI-JIHADIST RAID: DOCTOR, TRIBAL HEAD

An Iraqi government raid on jihadist targets in a flashpoint town southwest of Baghdad killed 17 people on Monday, including at least three civilians, medical and tribal sources said.

"Bombardment targeted the Fadhiyya district at 1:00 am (2200 GMT on Sunday)," Sheikh Mohammad al-Janabi, a tribal chief from Jurf al-Sakhr, a town 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Baghdad, told AFP.

An army source confirmed the attack and a hospital source said that 17 people were killed, among them three civilians.


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 28 Jul 2014 11:00
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always feel for the civilians caught in the crossfire in conflict..

the only good jihadist these days, appears to be a dead one.
rack up the jihadist body count army gents, the more the merrier, the quicker, the better.
 
FRANCE SAYS READY TO HELP FACILITATE ASYLUM FOR IRAQ'S CHRISTIANS

France said Monday it was ready to help facilitate asylum for Christians in Iraq displaced by a jihadist onslaught, saying it was "outraged" by their persecution.

"We are ready, if they so desire, to help facilitate asylum on our territory," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a joint statement.


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 28 Jul 2014 13:54
 
IN IRAQ'S MOSUL, RESISTANCE RISES FROM RUBBLE
by Jean Marc MOJON, Ammar Karim

The dynamiting of some of Mosul's most precious heritage has spurred a group of students and officers into the first act of armed resistance against the Iraqi city's jihadist rulers.

Islamic State fighters have faced few challenges in holding the city since they took it over seven weeks ago, with Kurdish forces grounded at its gates and routed government forces in disarray.

But Anwar Ali, 23, hopes the snipers he said killed four jihadists on Sunday fired the opening shots of a broad popular uprising that will kick the jihadists back into the desert.

"With a group of mainly students, but also young civil servants and merchants, I joined something we named Kataeb al-Mosul (The Mosul Brigades)," he told AFP.

"But some people suggested we rename it Nabi Yunus Army in reaction to the blowing up by Daash (IS' former Arabic acronym) of the shrines."

On July 24, IS rigged the Nabi Yunus shrine, revered by both Muslims and Christians as the tomb of Prophet Jonah, with explosives and blew it up in a public display of might.

Other precious monuments deeply rooted in Mosul's rich history were reduced to rubble.

"This campaign of destruction of our mosques, churches and heritage sites is an attempt to suppress Mosul's identity," Anwar Ali said.

Many residents from Mosul's Sunni majority who watched the fearsome jihadists roll in from the western badlands on the Syrian border in June initially expressed relief at the riddance of a sectarian policing by Shiite-dominated government forces.

"The blowing up of the shrines was a turning point for people who had planned on delaying any clash with Daash," said Atheel al-Nujaifi, the governor of Mosul's Nineveh province.

"The Mosul Brigades were supposed to come out of hiding later," he said, speaking from Kurdistan where he had to flee when IS took Mosul on June 10.

An officer in the newly-formed resistance group who asked that his name not be published said snipers picked off four IS militants in three different parts of Mosul at the weekend. Witnesses and Nujaifi spoke of five.

"We are now on duty. There will be more operations," he said. "We warn the population not to cooperate with Daash in any way."

The demolitions even appear to have alienated some of IS' traditional following.

"You claim to follow in the path of the Prophet (Mohammed), but you are the first to stray from his word," said one member of a jihadist Internet forum, writing under the name Faruq al-Iraq.

He said there was no theological justification for destroying the shrines, an argument echoed by many other posts from users who, only weeks ago, had fully endorsed the "caliphate" proclaimed by IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last month.

By blowing up some of the ancient city's proudest heritage, Mosul's jihadist rulers may have become the architects of their own downfall, as fear slowly gives way to outrage.

"I think popular opposition may be the only way left to save the remaining historic monuments," Ihsan Fethi, from the Iraq Architects Society, said after the first destructions.

"I know I am asking and hoping for a very difficult action in view of the horrific record of these fanatics but some courage is needed now before it is too late," he said.

There are signs that his wish could come true.

When IS militants announced that the "hunchback" (Hadba), a 12th century minaret that leans like the Tower of Pisa, was next some residents formed a human chain to protect it, witnesses said.

"That might just be what turns it around," said Patrick Skinner, an analyst with the US-based intelligence consultancy Soufan Group.

"IS militants don't have numbers on their side if enough people say enough," he said. "There would be bloodshed, but they could kick IS out in hours."

Mosul has a population of around two million while IS fighters in the city are thought to number between 5,000 and 10,000.

Skinner said IS militants were likely aware they could be overplaying their hand by blowing up the Hadba, a national icon featured on 10,000 dinar banknotes.

"This is like Mosul's own Eiffel Tower. I would think (its destruction) would trigger what is missing in Iraq: a national reaction... So I imagine there's a calculation on the part of IS."

Nujaifi said a grassroots Sunni mobilisation against IS was the necessary starting point of any fightback and he appealed for foreign assistance.

"For the moment, the Mosul Brigades have no funding and nothing but themselves. If they get support and supplies, they can defeat Daash, because they have support from a majority of Muslawis (Mosul residents)," he said.

"In the meantime, they can at least ensure that Daash does not enjoy peace."


Source : Sapa-AFP /lk
Date : 30 Jul 2014 12:50
 
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/07/25/obama-asks-for-500-million-to-fund-isis-in-syria/


The truth is America funds terror groups in order to topple regimes to put in more favorable presidencies.
Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t.
The American government funded Al-Qaeda in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi.
The American government funded Ukranian rebel groups to take over the sale of natural gas to europe. (Thanks Victoria Nuland)
Hillary Clinton fought to keep Boko Haram off the terror list because we fund them AND Al-Shabab.

This is what the whole Iran Contra thing was about.
We’ve been funding ‘rebels’ in Syria. That’s how it gets portrayed to you, the American people. Most people don’t ask too many questions past that because they’re concerned about Dancing With The Stars, or the Kardashians, or some other incredibly important business that keeps them from bonding with their families.
These rebels are ISIS, yeah, the same ISIS that’s destroying Iraq and setting up a caliphate that centers around scooping up all the most important gas lines.
So, yes, President Obama is doing what other Presidents have been told to do before. Fund some terror group, because we’re all going to make more money on the back end.

Republicans and Conservatives have only taken notice of this since Obama has been President because political parties blind us. They hinder our development as a society and ultimately ruin America. Because if a Republican gets elected in 2016 every conservative that feels so politically aware and active because they’ll “Like” or “share” this story on facebook will go to sleep HARD for up to eight years, or until the next democrat is elected.

So, get mad. Be incredibly upset with the President for doing this. But don’t let it stop there. Don’t go to sleep when a Republican takes office. Don’t be how the Democrats you despise are acting now. America needs you to not go to sleep.
 
BAGHDAD BLASTS KILL 10: POLICE

At least 10 people were killed and 29 wounded Friday in bomb blasts that struck two districts of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

The deadliest was a car bomb in the northern Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, which has been frequently targeted and where security is usually heightened ahead of Friday prayers.

At least seven people were killed and 21 wounded in the explosion that rocked one of the large neighbourhood's main streets, a police colonel and hospital sources said.

Three roadside bombs also went off almost simultaneously near a Shiite mosque close to the central Kholani square, killing three people and wounding eight, two police officers said.

Jihadist group the Islamic State seized large parts of Iraq's west and north in June, before stopping its offensive a few dozen kilometres from Baghdad.

But it has continued to wreak havoc in the capital, mainly with suicide attacks, car bombs and improvised explosive devices targeting security forces.


Source : Sapa-AFP /lk
Date : 01 Aug 2014 11:23
 
Islamic extremists impose reign of terror in Iraq

Police cars have been repainted to say "Islamic police." Women are forbidden from wearing bright colors and prints. The homes of Shiites and others have signs stating they are property of the Islamic State. And everyone walks in fear amid a new reign of terror.

That's what life is like in Mosul, Tikrit and other cities in northern and western Iraq under the control of Islamic extremists after their lightning-fast military campaign that overwhelmed the Iraqi army in June.
The new normal for these residents means daily decrees about attire and raids to root out religious minorities in a campaign to impose strict Islamic rule in cities that tolerated multiple religions for centuries.
Residents chafe at the radical changes, and some are starting to rebel against the militants as they try to "cleanse" the region of anything — and anyone — deemed non-Islamic. As many Christians in Mosul have discovered, their only choice is fleeing.
"I was shocked when I heard the new decision forcing me to wear a veil and totally cover my face," said Mais Mohamad, 25, a pharmacist in Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq. "I can't do that — I was always free to wear what I like. I can't live the rest of my life with my face covered."

The militants, an al-Qaeda splinter group so radical that it was rejected even by al-Qaeda, initially concentrated on providing services such as sanitation and restoring order. The group, which insists on being called the Islamic State, issued religious decrees soon after taking over the city but didn't enforce them, residents said.
Over the past few weeks, the group has begun to crack down in an effort to fulfill its ambition to create an Islamic territory spanning Iraq and neighboring Syria.

"The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (the group's original name) decided that anybody who utters their (old) name will get 70 lashes," said Ghaida'a Al-Rasool, a doctor in Mosul. "Their new name is simply the Islamic State."
The group has established Islamic courts controlled by muftis, or Muslim religious leaders. Fighters regularly drive through the streets in trucks using loudspeakers to inform residents about changes.

"They have told clothing merchants to sell what they have within 20 days and then only jubbas are allowed," said Saad Al-Hayali, an engineer in Mosul, referring to flowing, one-piece robes worn by Muslims throughout the Middle East. "They have forbidden dressing rooms inside stores, too."

More worrisome for residents is the Islamic State's move to cleanse its strongholds. Christians and other minorities were given an ultimatum: Convert to Islam or face execution.
"I left from my home when we received the threat," said Abir Gerges, 45, a Christian schoolteacher who fled to Irbil, a city in Kurdistan, a semiautonomous region of Iraq protected by its own military force.
"I told my husband, 'We have to leave,' " said Gerges, a mother of three boys. "He hesitated, saying, 'How can I leave the house I inherited from my parents?' But I told him they might kill us and kill our sons in front of us. What are we going to do with a house if that happens? So he decided to listen to me, and we took our money and my jewelry and a bag of clothes and left."
Gerges, her husband and their three sons quickly saw the scope of the militants' rule when they came upon a checkpoint far outside Mosul.
"I put on a veil, trying to hide, but they asked if we were Christian," she said. "We were afraid to lie to them, so we said yes. One of them — he was masked — advanced toward me and said, 'You must remove all the jewelry you are wearing. Now it's Islamic State property.' Also they confiscated all my husband's money. Afterward, they said, 'Now you can go. That's punishment for your refusal to be Muslim.' "


"The churches are closed," said Al-Rasool, the Mosul doctor. "Yesterday, I saw an old church in the streets of the Ras al-Kur historic district. The doors of the church were walled off with cement and blocks."
"They have reduced municipal employees' salaries by half of their former amount, and they've told the Christians, Shiites and Shabak (minorities), 'You are fired,' " Al-Rasool said.
The few Christians and Muslim minorities who remain live secretly, in fear of being discovered.
"I am still in Mosul, and I know for sure I will be dead if they know I am here," said Hassan Ali, 55, a Turkmen Shiite and father of three daughters. "But what can I do? I can't afford to move somewhere else. I prefer to die here rather than dying in refugee camps with no services and no food."

It is left to underpaid Sunni workers to restore city services and repair electrical lines and water treatment facilities that were heavily bombarded by retreating government forces. Under the Islamic State, electricity is rationed, water pumps run dry, gas prices are spiking and shortages of daily necessities are common.
Mahmood Faris, 24, a Mosul doctor, worries about how he and his neighbors will cope. Most private businesses have closed, run out of supplies or operate at irregular hours, he said.
"Ordinary people are doing their jobs despite the difficulties," Faris said. "A humanitarian catastrophe might hit Mosul due to poverty and the possible lack of medication in the hospitals."

The new hardships of daily living are particularly difficult for women and children. Though women are not barred from walking alone outside, the atmosphere has prompted many to remain indoors, keeping their children close at hand because schools have shut down.
"They want all women to be veiled and not to go outside without a man," said Omer Othman, 37, a shopkeeper. "This is a disaster for women. They used to perform half of the family's daily tasks."

The extremists may have gone too far when they started blowing up revered tombs and mosques that did not conform to their religious views, such as the burial site of biblical prophet Jonah.
"It brought out the conscience of Mosul residents," said Al-Rasool, the doctor, referring to Jonah's tomb. "All people from all religions and ethnic groups revere this site – it is the guardian and heart of the city."
In late July, residents created a chain around the Crooked Minaret, a landmark dating back to the 12th century, to prevent the militants from blowing it up.
In response to the destruction of these sites, brigades named after prophets, such as Nabi Yunus (Jonah) Nineveh and Al-Anbi'a, have formed to fight the invaders.
The Nineveh Brigade has called for recruits on its Facebook page and documents attacks on the militants. Since it was created July 22, the page has 40,000 followers.
According to the page, the resistance groups shot four Islamic State members July 21 and published the names of those killed, including one militant suspected in the bombing of Jonah's tomb. Other militants have subsequently been killed, two as recently as Thursday, according to residents.

Atheel Al-Nujaifi, the governor of Mosul, announced last week that a popular rebellion against the militants will start soon.
The Islamic State "behaved very nice at the beginning of the takeover of Mosul, but they start to uncover their ugly faces. They blew up three prophets' graves, which opened my eyes," Othman said. "I think people won't be standing for these injustices, and they might rise up against them very soon."

Also fueling people's anger — and the sense of being held by an occupying power — is the fact that many Islamic State fighters are foreigners. Residents reported encountering Chechens, Saudis, Libyans and other Arabs — they dress differently and speak Arabic with different accents.
Until Iraq's government forces liberate the region — or residents themselves do — most say they are trying to cope as best as they can.

"My son is 18 years old. He adores playing the guitar, and he is a wonderful musician," said Al-Rasool, who wonders how long it will be before music is banned. "Now he is desperate — no exams, no going outdoors. But he is still playing. And I feel happy listening to him, knowing that as long as he continues to do so, there is hope for this life."
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/03/iraq-mosul-islamic-state-fear/13344551/
 
Extremists Seize 3 More Towns in Iraq After Routing Kurdish Forces

Sunni extremists seized control of three towns in northern Iraq on Sunday after fierce battles with Kurdish security forces, sending thousands of people fleeing to the nearby mountains and threatening the country’s largest dam.

In the darkness of Sunday morning, the Sunni fighters swept in to take one of the towns, Sinjar, and set about their method of conquest, which is as familiar as it is brutal: They destroyed a Shiite shrine, executed resisters, overran local security forces and hoisted the black flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, above government buildings.

Hours later, as the militants demanded that the city’s residents swear allegiance to ISIS or be killed, the group’s social media campaign was underway, with photos posted online showing militants patrolling the city’s streets.

The United Nations representative in Baghdad, Nickolay Mladenov, issued a statement on Sunday afternoon, citing reports he had that as many as 200,000 civilians, mostly from the minority Yazidi community, had fled the new fighting.
“A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Sinjar,” Mr. Mladenov said.

In the face of stiff resistance from Shiite militias aligned with Iran that have stalled their march on Baghdad, the ISIS fighters who captured Mosul in June pushed north during the weekend. By Sunday afternoon, they were in control of two other towns after fierce battles with Kurdish security forces, known as the pesh merga, who have been increasingly thrust into battle to defend the border of their autonomous region in northern Iraq from encroachments by ISIS.

In a statement, ISIS boasted of conquering “more important areas which were controlled by the pesh merga and the secular militias.” With the new territory, which the group described as “the border triangle of Iraq, Syria and Turkey,” ISIS strengthened its hold on territory that traverses the frontiers of Iraq and Syria, giving it an even greater ability to move fighters and weapons between the front lines of the civil wars in both countries.

According to security officials and residents in the area, the Kurdish forces were routed from Zumar, a town on the road from the Syrian border that also sits on oil fields, and then Sinjar. Sinjar, an isolated city in northwestern Iraq, has been home to a sizable community of Yazidis, Kurdish speakers who ascribe to a religion that combines elements of Islam and ancient Persian religions and who are considered apostates by Muslim extremists.
Later on Sunday, the militants captured Wana, a strategic town near the Tigris River — putting them within striking distance of the Mosul Dam, the country’s largest and an important supplier of electricity and water. The dam is on the Tigris River about 30 miles northwest of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, which fell to ISIS on June 10.

Yazidi residents of Sinjar, who were reached by phone, were terrified. They told of kidnappings and executions of members of their sect. One resident, Sami Hassan, said he was at work as a nurse at a hospital on Sunday when an injured ISIS fighter arrived and demanded to know the sect to which Mr. Hassan belonged.
Mr. Hassan said he had escaped from a window while being shot at.

Another local, Khudhur Rasho, said he had seen two Yazidi men executed and the members of 10 families, their hands bound behind their back, being led away by militants.

The seizure of the three towns in a triangle that stretches north and west from Mosul to the borders of Syria and Turkey allowed the extremists to expand their territory, but the capture of the Mosul Dam would be a bigger prize, and could give the militants the ability to unleash a deadly flood on large populations.

On Sunday afternoon, conflicting reports emerged about who was in control of the dam, with some local news media reporting that ISIS had captured it. But Kurdish officials and an official at the Ministry of Water Resources in Baghdad denied those reports.

Keeping the dam, and other important infrastructure of the Iraqi state, out of militant hands has been a priority of the Iraqi government and the American military advisers who recently rushed back to Iraq. The loss of the dam would be a significant blow to efforts to contain the growing crisis.

Seven years ago, a report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, a Pentagon watchdog, highlighted structural problems at the dam, and its warnings about safety hinted at the catastrophic possibilities should the dam fall into the hands of ISIS. The report warned that a failure at the dam could send a 65-foot wave across parts of northern Iraq. “The worst-case scenario would be a significant loss of life and property,” the report said.

Militants have also waged a fierce battle for control of Iraq’s second-largest dam, in Haditha, on the Euphrates River in Anbar Province. There, Sunni tribes, along with some Iraqi security forces, have been able to hold off the militants’ advance. But after ISIS took control of Falluja at the end of last year, militants seized the Falluja Dam, opening its gates and flooding farmlands and cutting off the water supply to southern Iraq.

The battles over the weekend deepened the humanitarian crisis in the north, with thousands of residents fleeing the fighting to the Kurdish region, with some Yazidis seeking shelter in the crevices of the barren mountains. The Kurdish regional government is struggling to deal with tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety there from across Iraq and Syria.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/world/middleeast/iraq.html
 
IRAQ JIHADISTS THREATEN KURDS AFTER BATTLEFIELD VICTORIES

The Islamic State group warned Monday it would seek to further expand into autonomous Kurdish territory after claiming key towns and areas over the past 48 hours.

"Islamic State brigades have now reached the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. May God Almighty allow his mujahideen to liberate the whole region," it said in a statement.

The jihadist group listed the gains achieved over the weekend in what was its most significant territorial push since first sweeping across Iraq nearly two months ago.

It seized the large town of Sinjar on Sunday, as well as two others in the same area. It took the town of Zumar the previous day and is now threatening Mosul dam, the country's largest.

"The mujahideen (holy fighters) conquered several areas controlled by secular Kurdish gangs and militias," said the statement, issued by IS' branch in the northwestern Iraqi province of Nineveh.

"In a day-long series of battles involving a variety of weapons... the apostate enemies were humiliated, dozens were killed and wounded and hundreds fled."

The Kurdish government has not provided casualty figures nor commented on reports that several Kurdish peshmerga fighters were captured.

The areas IS fighters took were regions the peshmerga moved into in the initial chaos that saw government soldiers retreat in the face of the jihadist offensive launched on June 9.

The latest fighting in Nineveh province means that the peshmerga have largely pulled back to the old borders of their autonomous region.

It also allows the Islamic State's men to move easily between Iraq's second city of Mosul, which they overran on June 10, and the Syrian border.


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 04 Aug 2014 10:30
 
ISLAMISTS EXECUTE DOZENS OF YEZIDIS IN NORTHERN IRAQ, WITNESSES SAY

Fighters of the Islamic State jihadist group executed dozens of people from Iraq's Yezidi minority who refused to convert to Islam, witnesses said.

Witnesses told dpa that 67 young men were shot dead by the extremist fighters in the northern Sinjar town, which the group stormed on Sunday, driving off hundreds of families of the area.

The men had been detained by the fighters since Sunday, witnesses added.

The Kurdish Bas News Agency reported that 88 Yezidis were executed. It added that dozens of other young men announced that they had converted, fearing that they face the same fate.

Residents fled Sinjar town and nearby villages, some 115 kilometres west of Mosul, for the relative safety of Mount Sinjar, as the militants stormed through areas of northern Nineveh province held until Saturday by Kurdish Peshmerga troops.

A tribal chief told Kurdistan's Rudaw television that he was worried about the fate of more than 2,000 Yezidi villagers, who were believed to have returned to their village on Sunday after receiving assurances from the Islamic militants.

Khalaf Elias, chief of the Issa clan said some families returned to their village of Wardi, but he was not sure of their fate or whereabouts.

The Kurdish-speaking Yezidis belong to a little-known religious minority and are derided by Islamists as infidels or even "devil-worshippers."

They have previously been targeted in attacks by suspected Islamist militants, with one multiple bombing attack in 2007 killing over 300.

Reports said Islamic State fighters destroyed shrines after capturing the area.

The fall of Sinjar came as part of sweeping advances by the militant group against Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who seem to have offered little resistance.

The areas taken by the fighters are part of several towns over which the Kurdistan region has vied with Baghdad since the US-led invasion of 2003.

In June, as insurgents led by the Islamic State pushed deep into northern and western Iraq, the Peshmerga took advantage of the collapse of Iraqi security forces to seize the disputed areas, including Sinjar and the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.


Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 04 Aug 2014 12:11
 
This ISIS lot show more and more every day that they need to be stopped and eliminated.
 
No not like hamas. I feel like ISIS is gonna be 100 times worse than hamas.
 
ph4t3 said:
No not like hamas. I feel like ISIS is gonna be 100 times worse than hamas.
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That is a conservative number if you ask me...

I don't see Hamas trying to execute everyone who isn't a Muslim as a start.
 
ToxicBunny said:
This ISIS lot show more and more every day that they need to be stopped and eliminated.
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And how exactly is that going to happen ?, this is spreading far and wide, like a virus, however the only way to stop the spread is to kill the host.

Demonstrations in Holland had people waving ISIS flags
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/27/isis-s-black-flags-are-flying-in-europe.html

Indonesia
The Malang regency administration suspects the presence of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) agents in the area.
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/08/05/isis-network-suspected-penetrating-malang.html

It looks as if Saudi could also suffer, which would be little ironic considering they are thought to be behind a lot of the funding of ISIS while they were still mainly in Syria

The ultra-violent Al Qaeda offshoot group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) has targeted Saudi Arabian intelligence officers for a campaign of assassination as part of plans by the group to expand activities inside the oil-rich kingdom
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...al-media-crowdsourcing-to-target-saudi-intel/

Islamic State defector says Saudi Arabia next stop for group
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/07/syria-opposition-is-saudi-arabia.html#ixzz39YZYDE00

ISIS trying to woo support in Libya
http://www.eurasiareview.com/01082014-isis-woos-ansar-al-sharia-libya/

Egypt and Algeria are considering a joint military operation in Libya to prevent the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in their increasingly unstable neighbour Libya, an Algerian newspaper reported Sunday.
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http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ne...geria-considering-military-operation-in-libya

Tunisia, in Political Transition, Fears Attacks by Citizens Radicalized Abroad
At least 12,000 foreigners have joined Islamist groups in Syria to fight against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, and as many as 3,000 of them are Tunisians
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/w...acks-by-citizens-radicalized-abroad.html?_r=0

Global Jihad: A Threat That India And Pakistan Cannot Ignore – Analysis
http://www.eurasiareview.com/05082014-global-jihad-threat-india-pakistan-ignore-analysis/
 
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FRESH JIHADIST ATTACKS IN NORTH IRAQ SEND CHRISTIANS FLEEING

Jihadists have launched fresh attacks on Christian areas in north Iraq, sparking a new wave of displacement, the country's Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said Wednesday.

Towns shelled in the past few days by Islamic State (IS) militants include Tal Kayf, Bartella and Qaraqosh, according to Christian sources.

The towns are among many in the area where thousands of Christians who were forced to abandon their homes in the main northern city of Mosul last month had found refuge.

Some of them are less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) away from Arbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.

Chaldean patriarch Louis Sako said at least one man had been killed by mortar fire, naming him as Lajin Hekmat, an employee of the main church in Tal Kayf, just north of Mosul.

A resident of Tal Kayf, Hanna Aziz Paulus, confirmed that the town had been targeted by shelling.

The town of Bartella had also been attacked by the jihadists, sparking an exodus, according to Sako.

"Bartella has seen the flight of many families in recent days," he told AFP, adding the population had feared a major eruption of fighting following a jihadist offensive in the nearby Sinjar region.

Thousands of civilians, including from the Yazidi and other minorities, were forced to flee their homes at the weekend when IS militants ousted Kurdish peshmerga forces there.

Sako said he had this week sent a new message to Pope Francis demanding urgent mobilisation to protect one of the world's oldest Christian communities.

"Christians are isolated, afraid and aware that in the face of such a sudden development, anything can happen," the patriarch said in his message.


Source : Sapa-AFP /lk
Date : 06 Aug 2014 12:19
 
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-executes-yazidi-men-kidnaps-children-takes-women-jihad-marriage-606110
Where are the Muslims here? Where is the outrage and the protests?

ISIS Executes Yazidi Men, Kidnaps Children and Takes Women for Jihad Marriage




Thousands have fled the Sinjar town as Islamic State militants forced the Kurdish forces guarding the frontiers to retreat.Reuters

Reports coming in from Sinjar, a small town that was once home to Iraqi minority community, Yazidis, suggest that the Islamic State militants are carrying out a "genocide" in the town.

For the Sunni militants, the Yazidis are a race of "devil worshipers" and killing them would only amount to a "holy act."

The 4,000-year-old religious group has faced persecution for centuries for its unique belief and practices.

Earlier on Sunday, the Islamic State captured the town after driving away the Kurdish forces in the region. Witnesses claim that the militants are executing dozens of Yazidis for refusing to convert to Islam.

The Gulf News report claimed that 67 young men were shot dead by the militants. Besides executing the Yazidis, the Al Qaeda offshoot, is also reportedly taking Yazidi women for "jihad" marriage.

Mohammed al-Khuzai, an official with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society told NYTimes that ISIS took more than 100 Yazidi families to the airport at the nearby town of Tal Afar, where it executed the men.

"ISIS killed all the men," Khuzai said, "and are planning to keep the women for jihad marriage."

Reports have also come in claiming that the Islamic State militants have forcefully taken away a large number of children from the Yazidi town. A resident told McClatchy DC that militants were taking away young children from their families.

Several Sinjar local government and municipal workers also have been executed by the ISIS.

"Last night[Sunday] they arrested and executed four of my cousins because they worked for the municipality, and already they have begun destroying the homes of the people who fled,"a witness, who didn't want to be named, told McClatchy.

The United Nations that called the ISIS takeover of Sinjar as a 'Humanitarian Tragedy' also has raised concern over the fate of civilians, trapped in Jabal Sinjar mountains.

Reports claim that the ISIS militants are starving out the men, women and children stuck in the mountains without food and water.

"The United Nations has grave concerns for the physical safety of these civilians," Nickolay Mladenov, a top UN envoy in Iraq said in a statement, reported France24.
 
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