Posted on 09/26/2014 2:52:38 PM PDT by markomalley
When jihadists raided their ancient heartland last month, Iraq's Christian Assyrians were left defenseless and fled, but now some have decided it is time to put up a fight. In Sharafiya, a village that Kurdish peshmerga retook from Islamic State (IS) fighters just north of the jihadist hub of Mosul, the homes are still empty and only a few armed men can be seen patrolling.
From a distance, with their sand-colored uniforms, they look like peshmerga. But their arm patches sport crossed rifles and the Assyrian flag -- a golden circle in a blue four-pointed star with wavy red-white-blue stripes.
Meet the Dwekh Nawsha -- an Assyrian phrase conveying self-sacrifice -- one of the newest militias in the ever-expanding galaxy of Iraqi armed groups and one of the first to be exclusively Christian.
It was officially created on August 11, a week after the Nineveh plain exodus that clerics have called the worst disaster to ever befall Iraq's Christians, and is made up of a modest 100 men.
"We are small in size but big in faith," said Lieutenant-Colonel Odisho, the former Iraqi army officer in charge of training new recruits.
According to the Assyrian Democratic Movement, Iraq's most prominent Christian political party, at least 2,000 men have already volunteered to fight the Islamic State group.
But it says training and military equipment are badly needed to confront the jihadists and their army of suicide bombers, battle-hardened foreign fighters and looted U.S. military gear.
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They have to fight back if they want their section of Iraq back.
Send them to Israel to train with the IDF.
Better not let the Obama regime see the word Christian in anything related to their cause. Doing so assures that they will be targeted by coalition airstrikes and no US assistance at all.
Instead for maximum aide the need to change their name to “Iraq's Mexican Assyrians”
That assure not only assistance but total access to all benefits of US citizens including Obama care, free tuition, and food stamps.
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