Islamic State pulls down church crosses in northern Iraq as 200,000 flee

The Telegraph ^ | August 7, 2014 | Barney Henderson And Agencies

[Biggirl]

Islamic State jihadists who took over large areas of northern Iraq overnight have forced thousands of Christians to flee and occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako has said. “(The Christians) have fled with nothing but their clothes, some of them on foot, to reach the Kurdistan region,” Patriarch Sako told AFP.

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What I noticed at the time was no one could state the definition of mission accomplishment there. Invading Iraq was a colossal mistake. To think those people were going to “welcome” American troops on their streets was idiocy.