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Hundreds Of Yazidis Found In ISIS Mass Grave, Many Buried Alive
If the stated purpose of US intervention in the "country formerly known as Iraq", which saw the fourth consecutive US president launching military strikes in a nation now absolutely destroyed thanks to US involvement, was humanitarian (it isn't) and allegedly to "protect" the Yazidi ethnic minority members stuck on a mountain near Sinjar, then it needs some fine-tuning. The reason: as Reuters reports, Islamic State militants have slaughtered at least 500 Yazidis during their latest offensive in the north, with Iraq's human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani adding that the ISIS jihadists also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.
As a reminder, ISIS atrocities against Yazidis was the primary (if thoroughly fabricated) reason why according to the Obama, he promptly agreed to launch airstrikes against ISIS on Thursday night, leading to numerous bombing sorties in the following days.
Fast forward to today to find the following, from Reuters:
"We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar," Sudani said in a telephone interview, in his first remarks to the media on the issue.
Sinjar is the ancient home of the Yazidis, one of the towns captured by the Sunni militants who view the community as "devil worshipers" and tell them to convert to Islam or face death.
A deadline passed at midday on Sunday for 300 Yazidi families to convert to Islam or face death at the hands of the militants. It was not immediately clear whether the Iraqi minister was talking about the fate of those families or others in the conflict.
"Some of the victims, including women and children were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar," Sudani said.
The minister's comments could pile pressure on the United States - which has carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets in response to the group's latest push through the north - to provide more extensive support.
"In some of the images we have obtained there are lines of dead Yazidis who have been shot in the head while the Islamic State fighters cheer and wave their weapons over the corpses," said Sudani. "This is a vicious atrocity."
The Iraq government, which had been begging for US intervention for months (if only to see Putin promptly step up while Obama dithered waiting to see who would replace current PM al-Maliki), is finally content that the US has stepped up: "The terrorist Islamic State has also taken at least 300 Yazidi women as slaves and locked some of them inside a police station in Sinjar and transferred others to the town of Tal Afar. We are afraid they will take them outside the country. The international community should submit to the fact that the atrocities of the Islamic State will not stop in Iraq and could be repeated somewhere else if no urgent measures were taken to neutralize this terrorist group," Sudani said.
"It’s now the responsibility of the international community to take a firm stand against the Islamic State to reach a consensus on a legitimate decision to start the war on Islamic State to stop genocides and atrocities against civilians."
The reason: the Iraq state has clearly shown it is incapable of stopping the (US-funded) ISIS advance, either to the north, or, increasingly, to the south where both Baghdad is located, as well as Iraq's critical oil fields. Which is why now that the US is involved, the Iraq regime is certainly relieved if only for the time being: it remains to be seen just what the real US-motive behind backing the same ISIS it is ostensibly "fighting", is.
In the meantime, the ISIS persecution of the Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism and who are spread over northern Iraq as part of the Kurdish minority, continues.
The irony: many of their villages were destroyed when Saddam Hussein's troops tried to crush the Kurds during his iron-fisted rule. Some were taken away by the executed former leader's intelligence agents. Now they are on the defensive again. Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled for their lives after Kurdish fighters abandoned them in the face of Islamic State militants, and are trapped on a mountain near Sinjar at risk of starvation.
It is they who will first and foremost realize just what it means when the US pursue "humanitarian" intervention when its motives are entirely ulterior. Because as AFP adds, the US mission is well-short of achieving success:
"The Kurdish peshmerga forces have succeeded in making 30,000 Yazidis who fled Mount Sinjar, most of them women and children, cross into Syria and return to Kurdistan," said Barbahari, who is in charge of the Fishkhabur crossing with Syria. "Most of them crossed yesterday and today, this operation is ongoing and we really don't know how many are still up there on the mountain," he told AFP.
Lawmaker Vian Dakhil, who is from the Yazidi minority most of the Mount Sinjar displaced belong to, said 20,000 to 30,000 had managed to flee and were now in Iraqi Kurdistan. "20,000 to 30,000 have managed to flee Mount Sinjar but there are still thousands on the mountain," she told AFP. "They have arrived in Kurdistan."
"The passage isn't 100 percent safe. There is still a risk," she added, as the international community ramped up efforts to provide food and water by air drops to those still stranded.
And speaking of ulterior motives, even the liberal New Republic finally figured out that "The U.S. Airstrikes in Northern Iraq Are All About Oil." But... that would mean that the difference between Obama and Dubya is... if you haven't figured it out by now, you never will.
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Operation Rape Hornet's Nest
Operation Sand Trap.
That is so fucking excellent. Bonuses for working in Obama's golf game.
Operation: WET Dream (WE armed Those Di%#suckers.)
As I agree, we should not have been involved in the first place, but we did arm the bad guys! At this stage of the game, I believe there should not be one damned MRE dropped in without a rifle. Hell, these days we could drop Mosin-Nagants as cheaply as we can MREs. Face it, it really sucks having to throw rocks while in a gunfight.
If you're going to fuck up people's world, at least give them the means to have a sporting chance.
We can actually produce functional, stamped out, weapons very cheaply. Hell, even let our border crossers make them.
Stats prove, well armed people, have better survival rates.
No to be too cynical, but there is a simple solution for Iraq, precisely because it is all about oil. Offer a 20% concession to the first bad ass who is willing to put boots on the ground and bodies in the ground until the job is done and the spice can flow freely. They'll make up for it on volume.
Transvestite Towelhead princes and their wallets are only good for creating these problems, they're impotent when it comes to solving them.
Xi Jinping has a million man army and needs oil. Or if they want to keep it within the tribe, they should talk to the good old boy running Chechnya, who has discount card for Vlad's Sporting Goods...
Beheading Hydra?
"Operation Desert Glass" ...(hopefully)"
Hasbara out in force today to try to pin the responsibility for these outrages against humanity on their victims. ISIS - you know, the "moderate Syrian rebels" that the US helped with training, funding, and materiel, and Israel helped with airstrikes against the SAA - has mostly killed non-combatant Muslim civilians. Jewish victim blaming at its finest.
"Christians take a good fucking look".
Just nuke all the Holy lands. That way there is nothing for them to fight about.
BEST suggestion - seriously heavy multiple ground-burst carpet of nukes, so that the terrain featues are no longer recognizable. If I had the button, I would be pushing it.
I'm sure Putin wouldn't mind a little nuke testing going on in his backyard eh?
..chess has to be played with the opponents logial reaction in mind, so yeah the jerk might do just that.
There's nothing the neocons won't do to get the US back in Iraq.
Long on Yellow Ribbons and Caskets. Love the stuff the MSM's will spew and families crying all the way to the grave
Landing troops should be the next step. Screw the air strikes pussie Amerikans
Landing more than a few special ops teams might very well lead to a military mutiny.
Now that I think about it, I say, do it and lets get this shitshow on the road. Fast pain vs slow pain.
The band aid was infected when it was applied. Ripping it off is good.
I wonder where the Pope is on all of this...is he just going to let them kill all the Christians...I bet he could raise a very large army to end this again...much like the Crusades....on another note has Isis signed the Geneva treaties...not...so they should not get any of the benefits...
Some say he is the Black Pope. That the Jesuits like to pit both sides against each other. That the Ends Justifies the Means. 30% of Congress is Catholic. US Military has many Secret Military Association... well and private associations... and military think tanks.
well and Federal Budget is $1 Trillion on Defense, $1 Trillion on Social Security, and $1 Trillion on MEDICARE/MEDICAID.
Does our Military Empire hate war? Not really. War gets people promoted, established, status, more leadership opportunities, bigger budgets, and higher profits.
Maybe Erdogan, who is now re-elected, can take this matter into his own hands? I mean, Turkey got NATO's biggest land army and it's just by the border... surely they can take care of those ISIS fucks?
turkey are you a fucking retard : )
isis is trained at incirlik nato base inside turkey numbnuts trained by israel,the uk even polish grom for fuck sake.
funded by qatar and the jewish house of saud.
headed by elliot shimon a jew, private huspital treatment in israel proper cia,mossad and mi6 how more kosher can you get.
erdogan and sisi are also on board with this zionist project at the moment until they become the next target
Yes all true for what I know.
But I'm thinking Turkey used to Control much of the Middle East in the Ottoman Empire. Turkey like any country has limited military resources and huge borders. It is also Muslim and must consider it's place in any emerging Caliphate.
Turkey could fall if the US Currency Collapses and US Military and Financial Might is no longer part of the Equation.
Where are the santions against the us now. They
Are responsible. Isis is fighting with us weapons.
The compassionate 'save the Christians' narrative pushed by the WH and lamestream was to give cover for any comparisons to Benghazi, which is the real reason for the swift action, as ISIS was about to overtake Irbil (footage of decapitated Christians wouldn't ruin Barry's vacation nearly as much as decapitated Americans).
With regard to the Christians, the worst thing that could happen to them was for Barry to announce that the US would save them. This was all ISIS needed to ramp up more executions to say a big 'fuck you' to Barry.
WHAT "save the Christians" narrative? Are you fucking high?
Maybe we should say : WE'RE NOT COMING, DO IT YOURSELF... the people getting murdered by these ISIS cocksuckers will get tired of it and will man the fuck up and fight them?? Why must we fight THEIR wars for them? You're not happy? FIGHT, OTHERWISE SHUT UP.
Their wars? Last I checked the west has created ISIS. You don't build a fucking army out of nothing.
The terrorists formerly known as Al Queida. ISIS is easier to spell.
Not the West - Obama. He's from Kenya. Went to Mosques in Indonesia. He thinks the Muslim call to prayer is the lovliest sound.
"Why must we fight THEIR wars for them?"
They're not "their" wars. The neocon psychopaths who dominate the state department never wanted to leave Iraq and getting their Isis pets to bury children alive is their way of getting the US back in.
"Their" wars are places like Libya where different factions are fighting over who gets the oil money - no crucifixations or mass beheadings there just the usual fighting over resources. The crucifixations and beheaded kids are entirely for western media consumption to force an intervention.
"Why must we fight THEIR wars for them?"
They're not "their" wars. The neocon psychopaths who dominate the state department never wanted to leave Iraq and getting their Isis pets to bury children alive is their way of getting the US back in.
"Their" wars are places like Libya where different factions are fighting over who gets the oil money - no crucifixations or mass beheadings there just the usual fighting over resources. The crucifixations and beheaded kids are entirely for western media consumption to force an intervention.
You mean shut up and die. That's not very nice. The least you could do is send a plane and take all of them to America.
Maybe humanity should WAKE THE FUCK UP.
I'm not holding my breath, however.
Babies in incubators and women buried in mass graves.
Fixed it/
Can't the US offer em up the Bush family war criminals in exchange for peace? Maybe throw in a Cheney and a Rumsfeld for a guarantee
News flash brought to you by:
Hill and Knowlton
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Just a couple of questions.
How many people have the Israeli's murdered in Gaza recently?
How many US air strikes have there been to try to stop the slaughter and war crimes?
The death toll in Syria is estimated at 175,000 and that is the Syrian army vs ISIS. Add that to the genocide ISIS is committing in Iraq.
These are not the same kind of war. Drop your Gaza bullshit because it's Hamas using women and children as human shields. These are two totally different fucking things.
I'm not usually one to throw numbers about, but if you look at the country that is responsible for more death, suffering and pain, then The US is hands down winner, by orders of magnitude.
Shame you are not the 'One and Only'
Killing people for any other reason than them trying to kill you is wrong - always has been and always will be.
I'm talking one on one here.
Don't try to tell me anyone in Iraq wants to kill you personally. (Unless you were over there and hurt one of 'them')
Oh, bullshit. Stalin and Mao have the US beat by several orders of magnitude.
not to mention the Ottoman empire or Attila the Hun or Ghengus Kan or just cannables or slavers or irrate family killings taken as a whole----
But neither of the two dropped nuclear weapons on civilians. The U.S. did. Twice. Plus all the napalm dropped in Vietnam and other countries that didn't attack us.
Sheesh! Mao killed 40 to 70 MILLION of his own people. All civilians! Stalin murdered 20 MILLION!
It is startling how ignorant so many people are. It must be the school system for so many history tards to be typing their nonsense,
But neither of the two dropped nuclear weapons on civilians.
Yep....and the Japs have been peaceful ever since.
Time to do it to the Muzzies.
Take out Mecca. Take out Baghdad. Take out Tehran. Take out Islamabad. Take out the warlords and the poppy fields of Afghanistan
Then wait a while. If they don't get the hint.....if they get riled up again....then take out all the secondary cities.
Until they either get the lesson or they all die.
Time to stop this bullshit.....now.
http://www.infowars.com/gaza-in-perspective-hamas-does-the-bidding-of-th...
And if you believe what you read there, I've got people lining up to sell you a bridge or two!
Here is an answer to both of your questions, fucktard.
I always think the best way forward is a calm and reasonable exchange of views.
You obviously agree.
Thank you for that pearl of wisdom.
what a retard. LMAO
The Ulerior is US and Saudi Arabia must corral the ISIS they fund so they don't get too out of hand.
How many of you remember the videos of thousands of al-Maliki troops
being marched down the road, the ones that gave-up around Mosul,
and where do ya think they went,
some prison camp,
think again
Where's the UN, NATo
Your tax dollars at work trying to overthrow the President of..........Syria?
there are million people trap in donetsk and neo nazis are waiting outside.. putin should bomb those neo nazis with nuland out of kiev immediately for humanitarian reasons
No. Only exceptional people are allowed to do such exceptional things. USA can do as it pleases. Russia, they haven't earned the right to do those kinds of things like we have. We are free, honest, democratic and capitalistic. They are dishonest and a dictatorship posing as communism. Sure we make some mistakes, but our intentions are good. Theirs are not.
I though Donetsk was not in Iraq?
it is now
and Hong Kong is in South America
I don't know if this has been posted on ZH, but Moon of Alabama,
had a very good piece entitled: What Obama told the Caliph
www.moonofalabama.org/2014/08/what-obama-told-the-caliph.htm
some of your dreams will come true
all jews will be forced to go back to Israel, as scripture says
all will hate them
but you yourself will experience the same and much worse
be careful how you judge because it will also fall on you
there is only one way out
and it aint being a skin head
[ for all you zh skinhead types ]
Don't mix up forgiveness and non-judgement with allowing yourself to be led to the slaughter.
It's the zionists who are the enemy, not the jews per se. You need to get that through your thick skull before you start casting aspersions here under the guise of any particular faith.
And if you don't learn to recognize your enemy, you will never see them coming. And, given that kind of willful blindness, you will never be able to protect what you love, never mind yourself.
ISIS is beheading children but you can't stop thinking about how the Zionist Jews are responsible. Get a life.
Isis is doing whatever it takes to force a US intervention.
The sad truth is that nobody does anything for free. You can only hope when everything has been stripped away that some greater power sees an ancilliary benefit in providing some magnanimity to your own survival. This is how we become pawns.
OIL? I can't believe that ZH buys the oil explanation for the Iraq war!
And how much did the war on Iraq cost us?
And why did the US go into Iraq?
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_oilwar.htm
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_isrorgs.htm
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/conc_toc.htm
Insane.
NATO did it
USA did it.
Shame on them.
not NATO not USA, just a few hundred neocons in the the US govt and media running their own foreign policy agenda
Good grief! You can't put this one on the Republicans.
This one's on Obama! Benghazi was about arming the Syrian terrorists. He was funnelling weapons to Turkey to transfer to the Syrian terrorists.
Plus, he's been arming them for maybe a year.
"Good grief! You can't put this one on the Republicans."
I'm not. The state department is totally dominated by the neocon families. The same people were there under Bush and they run their own foreign policy regardless of the administration.
wake up
childish comments
"You can't put this one on the Republicans."
do you actually think there is a differance.
where have you been boy?
The potential for the human race is questionable. The catalyst for war has not been diminished as many people have hoped it would once the world matured. National pride, political agendas, religious and ethnic hatreds are some of the biggest roadblocks to world peace.
The true reality is that across the world few mothers want to see their children killed and most farmers want to be left along to raise their crops and earn a living. More on the subject of war as a solution to conflict in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/05/war-and-what-is-it-good-for.html
Follow the money ...
If you want to know who the IS army is working for, then find out who has armed them and gave them the Toyota pick-up trucks. My guess is that none off the IS jihadis had a pot to piss in before they were hired for the IS army.
All other explanations are just B/S and misdirection.
Yes, follow the money. $1 Trillion in US Defense Spending Annually, but that is only one simple angle. There are many smart business people that network well and they know many ways to make money.
USA is Proof that in Politics, Group Think reigns supreme.
The whole American Republican V Democrats is also Group Think.
US Wars are Group Think from Government Propaganda and Public Relations Firms. Wag the Tail, the Movie, is the Jessica Lynch story, the Kuwait Incubator Babies on the Floor, African Uranium, The 3 Trade Center Towers falling down, MLK Assassination, JFK Assassination, Bobby Kennedy Assassination, Ukraine, Syria, Gaza threat to Israel justifies war crimes...
What amazes me is how people believe everything the muslims tell them. As a group of camel traders you can't believe any of them. Oh, I forgot we have intel blah, blah, blah. The only way to deal with wild animals is wait for them to attack then kill them all as well as their family members.
Oh....I thought you were talking about Obama....
No more honour or integrity trading paper enforced by guns & law as "money". I agree with your distrust but I wouldn't shift that trust TO anyone else. No one is worthy.
Recently, I thought through the idea of "patriotism". After a day pondering it, I concluded there is nothing good to come from it ever. I am no longer a patriot.
The first priority of any patriot should be to make sure their leaders aren't corrupt, murderous, psychopathic scum. If they're not then carry on being a patriot. If they are then stop being a patriot until they are replaced.
Moslems calling the Yazidis "Devil worshippers". That's like the pot calling the kettle black!
Iraqi military officer says that 70% of the Yazidi on the mountain are dead.
So now Armenia is in Iraq as well?
Quick... Turks to the rescue!
Given the real financial & arming responsibility of America for the genocide in Palestine, since the arms & cash for arms comes from America to Israel, how much should we consider Al Qaeda & ISIS to be fully funded American terrorist entities and therefore lay blame for mass graves directly on America? Again?
Everything that needs to be said about the Muslim world in 9 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vvoRwJSPc