Islamic State Militants Destroy The Oldest Christian Monastery In Iraq
Source: Huffington Post
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State's relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites.
For 1,400 years the compound survived assaults by nature and man, standing as a place of worship recently for U.S. troops. In earlier centuries, generations of monks tucked candles in the niches and prayed in the cool chapel. The Greek letters chi and rho, representing the first two letters of Christ's name, were carved near the entrance.
Now satellite photos obtained exclusively by The Associated Press confirm the worst fears of church authorities and preservationists St. Elijah's Monastery of Mosul has been completely wiped out.
In his office in exile in Irbil, Iraq, the Rev. Paul Thabit Habib, 39, stared quietly at before- and after-images of the monastery that once perched on a hillside above his hometown of Mosul. Shaken, he flipped back to his own photos for comparison.
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Botany
(70,291 posts)No war in Iraq = no sending the Iraqi army home (mostly Sunnis) = the start of
Al Qaeda in Iraq which then morphed into ISIS.
Now ISIS is filled w/no good shits who should be killed by the truck load but w &
Cheney's unneeded war more then helped to start ISIS.
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By Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 6, 2003; 3:11 PM
President Bush today portrayed the war in Iraq as the latest front in the "global democratic revolution" led by the United States. The revolution under former president Ronald Reagan freed the people of Soviet-dominated Europe, he declared, and is destined now to liberate the Middle East as well.
In a speech to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) described as a major policy address by the White House, Bush avoided issues such as preemptive attack, weapons of mass destruction and "gathering" dangers to the United States.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)And well said.
Botany
(70,291 posts)No ISIS = no massive refugee problem from Syrian
W, Cheney, and company should be in jail for what they did aka
lying to start a war.
6chars
(3,967 posts)Destroying our heritage over arguments about whose man in the sky is the coolest.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Same for the priceless sites like Palmyra and Nineveh which have also fallen victim to these proudly ignorant, uncaring people. What are we going to do to try and recover what has been lost?
6chars
(3,967 posts)that's what makes them priceless.
romanic
(2,841 posts)as replicas, but it won't be authentic at all.