A picture sent by activists to a Western journalist showed a row of men in a street in Palmyra — known locally by its Arabic name Tadmur — lying in a pool of blood. At least four had been decapitated
Posted on 05/24/2015 4:40:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A picture sent by activists to a Western journalist showed a row of men in a street in Palmyra — known locally by its Arabic name Tadmur — lying in a pool of blood. At least four had been decapitated
Because he refuses to destroy them, Obama now own’s ISIS. They are his. Every day ISIS exists, they only exist because Barack Obama refuses to do what is necessary to get rid of them. If Obama was gone and a solid President was in, ISIS would be gone, so they are as literally as it gets, “Obama’s ISIS”.
Excerpted from The Daily Mail: Islamic State militants have executed at least 400 mostly women and children in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra.
Eye-witnesses have reported the streets are strewn with bodies – the latest victims of the Islamic State’s unrelenting savagery – on the same day photographs of captured Syrian soldiers have emerged.
It follows the killing of nearly 300 pro-government troops two days after they captured the city, now symbolised by a black ISIS flag flying above an ancient citadel. Keep reading
Excerpted from RT: Islamic State militants have killed at least 400 people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, mostly women and children, Syrian state television said Sunday, citing residents.
According to Reuters, opposition activists on social media claimed that hundreds of bodies were in the streets of the city.
“The terrorists have killed more than 400 people.. and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did not follow orders,” a Palmyra resident told Syria’s state news agency.
State employees were among hundreds killed in the massacre. Among them was the head of nursing department at the hospital and all her family. Keep reading
Reuters: Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago, Syrian state media said on Sunday.
It was not immediately possible to verify the account, but it was consistent with reports by activists that the Islamist fighters had carried out extra-judicial executions since capturing the city from government troops.
The Sunni Muslim militants seized the city of 50,000 people, site of some of the world’s most extensive and best preserved ancient Roman ruins, on Wednesday, days after also capturing the city of Ramadi in neighboring Iraq.
The two near-simultaneous victories were Islamic State’s biggest successes since a U.S.-led coalition began an air war against its fighters last year, and have forced an examination of whether the strategy is working.
The militants have proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from territory they hold in both Syria and Iraq. They have a history of carrying out mass killings in towns and cities they capture, and of destroying ancient monuments which they consider evidence of paganism.
“The terrorists have killed more than 400 people including women and children.. and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did not follow orders,” Syria’s state news agency said, citing residents inside the city.
It added that dozens of those killed were state employees, including the head of the nursing department at the hospital and all her family members.
Islamic State supporters have posted videos on the Internet they say show fighters going room to room in government buildings, searching for government troops and pulling down pictures of President Bashar al-Assad and his father.
Activists have said on social media that hundreds of bodies, believed to be government loyalists, were in the streets.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors violence in the country with a network of sources on the ground, says that some people were beheaded in the town since it fell but has not given an estimate for the toll among civilians.
It says at least 300 soldiers were killed in the days of fighting before the city was captured.
“A bigger number of troops have disappeared and it is not clear where they are,” Rami Abdulrahman from the Observatory told Reuters.
TROOPS EVACUATE HOSPITAL
Islamic State is the most powerful of countless mainly Sunni Muslim groups fighting against the government of President Assad, a member of the Shi’ite-derived Alawite sect. The four-year-old civil war has killed a quarter of a million people and driven nearly 8 million from their homes.
Western countries and their Arab allies are bombing Islamic State but supporting other anti-Assad forces elsewhere in the country, where government troops have lost territory in recent months.
Dozens of Syrian troops evacuated a strategically-located position inside a hospital in Idlib province in the northwest of the country last week, where they had held out since April under siege.
Syrian state television said on Sunday its air force had killed 300 insurgents in strikes that broke the siege of the Jisr al-Shughour hospital. The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, an insurgent group involved in the offensive in the area, said the government forces had fled.
State television aired footage on Sunday showing wounded soldiers arriving at another hospital in the nearby coastal area, stronghold of Assad’s supporters.
The Observatory said at least 261 soldiers including 90 officers had been killed in the past month. The toll includes the head of special forces, General Muheiddeine Mansour.
Assad has lost large parts of Idlib province to insurgents since late March, when the provincial capital fell. The president publicly addressed the situation at Jisr al-Shughour hospital this month, saying the army would reinforce the besieged troops there, whom he described as heroes.
The Observatory reported separately that a brigadier general of the Syrian army and six of his bodyguards were killed on Sunday in an explosion in the capital Damascus. A Sunni militant group claimed responsibility.
Obama created ISIS to fight against Assad in Syria. He has no desire to stop or destroy them.
Isis fighters are real men, they can kill unarmed women and children. Reminds me of their paedophile prophet.
Just because Obama refuses to decisively and quickly destroy ISIS, he OWNS them?
That's just plain stupid, I don't care who you are.
What of the rest of the world? They have no responsibility?
And what of the Arab pussies who pretend to be tough...and the Persian pussies who do the same?
Isn't this THEIR fight?
Are we sure those 400 women and children didn’t die from climate change? /s
Absolutely. These folks are 100% Obamas people..
“I will stand with Islam..”
ISIS: typical moozlums
In the next election, you will see something similar to 1980 when the Republican president was about to be sworn in, a plane landed with the hostages Iran had been holding for over a year. When we get a real man in there, Islamic State will go quiet, there, Libya, and other places for fear of what’s coming. Obama will wilt into the valedictorian he was before the ‘people’ elected him.
A real man would return the troops he prematurely withdrew from Iraq and it will be over within a week. The only thing that can go wrong is if people elect a democrat.
“I will stand with Islam..”
That is an inaccurate quote - often quoted but untrue. Check it out.
why do you think that Obama is flooding the United States with third world "refugees" for. By election day 2016 enough of them will be able to vote Democrat to throw the election.
“”What of the rest of the world? They have no responsibility?””
I wonder the same thing every time I watch the news. We never hear of any of the countries who are supposed to be involved in fighting these monsters. Haven’t we been told there are something like 60 countries taking them on?
Where are they? Germany, France, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Ethiopia. The usual ones but add in the Arab countries now... Is the whole world going to sit by and watch these atrocities take place and just report on them?
Thats been the only thing wrong with America for going on 70 or 80 years now.
If the Republicans don’t soon start to get some intestinal fortitude, and start to resist Obama on bringing in those law breakers, that’s what will happen and we will be in big, big trouble as a country.
What we need is somebody conservative with some real guts.
bump!
Misleading e-mail: From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/obamas-dreams-of-my-father/
Actual quote from “The Audacity of Hope” [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
accurate, but incomplete phrases.
Not direct quote, but factually correct.
Yup.
That’s exactly what is going to happen. And we will do nothing to stop it.
Yews.
And hopefully so are we.
But, if the men in these directly affected nations cannot or will not respond, and the USA HAS to respond to protect these women and children, then we should kill their men on our way out.
They have no reason to be alive.
I saw a picture on the news yesterday of a long, long line of ISIS monsters - as far as the eye could see - walking down a road. All I could think of was WWII movies where a fighter plane would fly over and wipe out every living soul on that road. Now that would certainly go a long way to start to even some scores in the area.
I guess we won’t see the UN take any action any time soon, will we? Even tho’ we were told in their early formation and our early school days that that is exactly why it was being organized!!! We just came out of WWII and we were never going to see a repeat of the atrocities from that time! What a joke! And not a funny one at that!
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