Posted on 07/30/2014 3:15:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
(Reuters) - Islamic State, the al Qaeda spin-off that seized wide swathes of Iraq almost unopposed last month, has released a video warning Iraqi soldiers who may still have some fight in them that they risk being rounded up en masse and executed.
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The West will have to confront the Islamic State at some point.
If they would fight to the death, they would not have worry about being killed after they surrendered, but they are products of Arab society, so that never happens. Normally, not taking prisoners increase your casualties, but the Iraqi army seems to constantly surrender so that does not happen to the ISIS.
Beats me. Surrender only to get executed. The Iraqi military “should” had figured that out by now.
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