Source: ISIS executes hundreds of Mosul area residents

[oberliner]

Source: CNN

ISIS executed 284 men and boys as coalition forces closed in on Mosul, an Iraqi intelligence source told CNN.

Those killed on Thursday and Friday had been rounded up near and in the city for use as human shields against attacks that are forcing ISIS out of the southern sections of Mosul, the source explained.

ISIS used a bulldozer to dump the corpses in a mass grave at the scene of the executions -- Mosul's defunct College of Agriculture in the north of the city, the intelligence source said.

The victims were all shot and some were children, said the source, who wanted anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. CNN could not independently confirm the claim.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/middleeast/iraq-kirkuk-attacks/

[Skittles]

1. there never would have been an Iraq war without Dubya

seriously

[Botany]

2. Tony Blair Says Iraq War Helped Give Rise to ISIS

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/tony-blair-says-iraq-war-helped-give-rise-to-isis.html?_r=0

[FrodosPet]

3. Iraq would have stayed stable after Saddam died?

His wise sons, Uday and Qusay would have reconciled their sibling feud and led Iraq into a glorious, long lasting period of peace, stability, and cooperation? Iran and Saudi Arabia would have respected their leadership and never turned Iraq into their battlefield?

No, the best we could have hoped for was that they would leave us out of that quagmire. But Iraq was destined to be a place of pain and misery, regardless of our actions.

[mdbl]

4. We spent the lives of many Americans and spent billions for what?

so we could be a major player involved in that quagmire forever? Sorry but there is no argument for the idiocy of the bush administrations actions and the look the other way congress.

[FrodosPet]

5. I'm not saying there is

All I am saying is that something like Daesh was inevitable. Saddam and sons made a LOT of enemies both inside and out of Iraq. By staying out of the mess, we could have saved a lot of American lives.

[lonestarnot]

6. Bushitler should have thought of that before he invaded the wrong country.

[Skittles]

7. THANK YOU

absolutely correct

I also hold anyone who voted for Dubya responsible - I remember people saying well yeah he's not that smart but he will "surround himself with good people". Yes, let's put the country in the hands of sociopaths / pyschopaths and see what happens

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, PEOPLE

[inwiththenew]

8. Iraq was going to fall apart sooner or later

We just accelerated and exacerbated the process. It should really be 3 different countries but was mashed together after WWI.