U.N. Investigators Warn Of Wider Sectarian War Across Iraq, Syria -- Reuters
(Reuters) - The Middle East appears on the brink of wider sectarian war engulfing Iraq and Syria with radical Islamist insurgents wantonly kidnapping, torturing and killing civilians, U.N. human rights investigators said in a report on Tuesday.
Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)group have routed Baghdad's army and seized the north of Iraq in the past week, linking it with a major swathe of territory previously taken in eastern Syria during the civil war there.
"We predicted a long time ago the dangers of spillover both ways, which is now becoming a regional spillover," said Vitit Muntarbhorn, an international law expert who took part in the inquiry. "We are possibly on the cusp of a regional war and that is something we're very concerned about."
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Update #1: Syria, Iraq on brink of regional war, UN panel says -- FOX News
Update #2: UN warns Middle East on verge of sectarian war with jihadists wantonly killing civilians as violence flares in Syria -- Daily Mail
My Comment: From my vantage point the UN is behind the times .... this sectarian war has been ongoing on for a very long time.
and it's going to grow
ReplyDeleteWell they've got their recognition response time down to around 1400 years.
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