UN warns of 'tragedy' as militants take over Iraq towns

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16. They are deadly beyond belief:

In an interview, Mohammed al-Khuzai, an official with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, said that ISIS had taken more than 100 Yazidi families to the airport at the nearby town of Tal Afar, where it executed the men and is believed to be keeping the women to force them to marry jihadi fighters.

“ISIS killed all the men,” Mr. Khuzai said, “and are planning to keep the women for jihad marriage.”

Mohammed al-Dulaimi, a Yazidi from Sinjar, said he had seen families being kidnapped. “I’ve seen them taking those families,” he said. “They claim they are infidels and they deserve to die.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/world/middleeast/iraq-agrees-to-help-kurds-battling-sunni-extremists.html?smid=tw-share