Friday, August 22, 2014
Why again are we in Iraq?
The numbers don't really matter, it is the people we associate with that determine our actions and the results. With "friends" like this we should once again turn about and leave.
Gunmen allegedly associated with a pro-government Shiite militia slaughtered more than 70 worshipers at a Sunni mosque in Diyala Province Friday, heightening Iraq’s sectarian divide in a volatile part of the country where government forces are battling militants from the Islamic State.Apparently their god does not deal in hearts and minds.
The gunmen, reported to be members of one of the volunteer Shiite militias that have been working alongside the Iraqi army for two months, reportedly took 30 minutes to execute men attending Friday prayers at the Mosaib bin Omair mosque, according to witnesses on the scene.
“When we entered the mosque (after the killings) it looked like hell, like judgment day,” said Abu Abdullah, who lives near the mosque and heard the attack unfold. “Blood was everywhere.”
The massacre reportedly followed a failed attempt to attack the militias with a roadside bomb. After it exploded, witnesses saw two trucks full of machine gun-carrying men with covered faces enter the mosque.
“They killed all the people in the mosque,” Abu Abdullah said...
Entire families were killed in the mosque, said Sheikh Salman al Jabouri. He said 15 tribes announced their intent to battle the militias because of their outrage over the massacre, indicating a deterioration of support for the government from a Sunni community already fearful of Shiite oppression.
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