Friday, December 5, 2014

Shiite Militias Are Committing War Crimes In Iraq

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Shiite Militias Win Bloody Battles In Iraq, Show No Mercy -- Wall Street Journal

Fatwa-Inspired Fighters’ Take-No-Prisoners Tactics Deepen Worries About Sectarian Tensions; ‘We Get Their Confessions, and Then We Kill Them’

JURF AL-SAKHER, Iraq—In a makeshift barracks about 40 miles south of Baghdad, Ahmed al-Zamili flipped through pictures on his mobile phone: an Islamic State fighter’s corpse hanging from a crude noose, a dead man on the ground clutching an AK-47 and a kneeling, blindfolded man uttering a confession.

Mr. Zamili says the men were captured when his militia of more than 650 Shiite fighters, known as Al Qara’a Regiment, drove Islamic State out of Jurf al-Sakher in late October. After briefly interrogating the enemy soldiers, Mr. Zamili ordered their executions, he says.

“We see them, we attack them, we get the weapons from them, we talk to them, we get their confessions, and then we kill them,” says Mr. Zamili, 35 years old, who ran five restaurants before forming Al Qara’a in June. “Of course, this is much better than the army strategy.”

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My Comment: A disturbing report from the WSJ. Bottom line .... both sides are monsters.

1 comment:

D.Plowman said...

Maybe it might deter would-be Jihadists when they learn that if they ever get captured, they'll have no chance of mercy...

Although I doubt it will have any bearing at all on recruitment.