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.
"Palmyrans probably
opposed gay marriage,
so it's okay. Oh, and
Death to America!"
Governments killed roughly 30 to 50 million of their citizens during the 20th century. Not including abortion. By that measure, the aptly named islamic state is a bunch of amateurs.
Aren’t they really killing off their future?
Fine by me but, where is the outrage?
Man, you sure got a thing for pussie...
But are there golf courses? Obama don’t care unless there are golf coures.
I’ve grieved over this and see few solutions. The lack of the “White Knights” to protect our Constitution leaves but a coup or some deportation action. This is serious and we may not survive but the “mulligan” man has got to go or we are doomed. Answers need ASAP.
I pretty much stand with the “not our problem” crowd. If their own armies cannot do anything...there isn’t much we will do.
I cannot understand all this,”Because he refuses to destroy them....”,concerning Obama and ISIS. He created them. They do his bidding. Why should he wish to destroy them? And within 2 years he will have a big portion of them over here. To augment those[not the convict conversion converts, the real mc coy]those already here keeping a low profile. Once the ratio to muslims to others, population wise is reached, they will explode. And sending Obama worshipers and voters to eternity will be at the top of their priority list.
How is it inaccurate?
George Stephanopoulos - being a good liberal elite - believes all cultures are equal. He believes that garbage because elite democrats tell him to believe it ... then he passes it on to the people he suppose to fool.
Just adding to the keyword, no ping.
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