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Islamic State kills 85 more members of Iraqi tribe
Source: Reuters
Islamic State kills 85 more members of Iraqi tribe
BY RAHEEM SALMAN AND AHMED RASHEED
BAGHDAD Sat Nov 1, 2014 9:22am EDT
(Reuters) - Islamic State executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week to break their resistance to the group's territorial advances, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday.
Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud, one of the tribe's chiefs, told Reuters that Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the al Qaeda offshoot on Friday. In a separate incident, a security official said 35 bodies were found in a mass grave.
The sustained bloodshed appears to demonstrate Islamic State's resilience to U.S. airstrikes against militant targets in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls. Ga'oud said he had repeatedly asked the Shi'ite-led central government for weapons but his pleas had been ignored.
Islamic State has been killing at will, with no signs that the Shi'ite-led government will send armed forces to the rescue of Albu Nimr or other tribes under threat anytime soon.
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BY RAHEEM SALMAN AND AHMED RASHEED
BAGHDAD Sat Nov 1, 2014 9:22am EDT
(Reuters) - Islamic State executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week to break their resistance to the group's territorial advances, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday.
Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud, one of the tribe's chiefs, told Reuters that Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the al Qaeda offshoot on Friday. In a separate incident, a security official said 35 bodies were found in a mass grave.
The sustained bloodshed appears to demonstrate Islamic State's resilience to U.S. airstrikes against militant targets in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls. Ga'oud said he had repeatedly asked the Shi'ite-led central government for weapons but his pleas had been ignored.
Islamic State has been killing at will, with no signs that the Shi'ite-led government will send armed forces to the rescue of Albu Nimr or other tribes under threat anytime soon.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/01/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-idUSKBN0IL2S420141101