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Once promised paradise, IS fighters end up in mass graves
The Jakarta Post ^ | October 15, 2017 | Ammar Karim and Maher al-Mounes Agence France-Presse

Posted on 10/15/2017 9:47:23 AM PDT by Kaslin

Edited on 10/15/2017 9:50:02 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The Islamic State group once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of jihadists lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its "caliphate" collapses.

Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Baghdad, at a hastily-dug pit containing the bodies of dozens of IS fighters killed in 2015.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; syria
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To: RipSawyer

‘So...you don’t agree that President Trump was sworn in by mostly non-American forces?’

ha ha ha...


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