Friday, March 21, 2014

Iraq's War Against Insurgents In Anbar Province Is Descending Into Tit For Tat Atrocities

A still image made from undated footage posted on the YouTube social media website and believed to be shot in Anbar province shows a dead man, suspected of being a member of the al Qaeda-linked. Credit: REUTERS/YouTube

Special Report: Iraqi Forces, Images Testify To Atrocities In New Fighting -- Ned Parker, Ahmed Rasheed and Suadad al-Salhy, Reuters

(Reuters) - The video shows a male corpse lying in the dirt, one end of a rope tied around his legs, the other fastened to the back of an armored Humvee.

Men in Iraqi military uniforms mingle by the vehicle. Someone warns there might be a bomb on the body. One hands another his smartphone. Then he stands over the body, smiles, and offers a thumbs-up as his comrade takes a photo. The Humvee starts to move, dragging the dead man behind it into the desert.

The short video was shown to Reuters last week by an Iraqi national police officer. It captures what appear to be Iraqi soldiers desecrating the corpse of a fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), a group reconstituted from an earlier incarnation of al Qaeda in Iraq.

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My Comment: In other news .... another bloody day in Iraq.

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