05.11.2014, 23:34
Zitat:Isil abduction, torture of 150 children a 'war crime'<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/isil-abduction-torture-of-150-children-a-war-crime-30720072.html">http://www.independent.ie/world-news/mi ... 20072.html</a><!-- m -->
Published 05/11/2014 | 02:30
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According to the new report Isil forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and then beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch revealed yesterday.
The Sunni Muslim militants abducted a group of children on May 29 as they returned to Kobane after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. It freed the final 25 hostages at the end of last month.
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"Those who didn't conform to the programme were beaten. They beat us with a green hose or a thick cable with wire running through it. They also beat the soles of our feet," it quoted one boy as saying.
"They sometimes found excuses to beat us for no reason... They made us learn verses of the Koran and beat those who didn't manage to learn them."
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Their captors - who came from Syria, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia - "told them to give them the addresses of their families, cousins, uncles, saying, 'When we go to Kobane, we will get them and cut them up.' They saw the YPG as infidels," one 15-year-old boy said in his evidence.
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Zitat:Iran general said to mastermind Iraq ground war<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-general-said-to-mastermind-iraq-ground-war/#ixzz3IEQSlCMo">http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-gener ... z3IEQSlCMo</a><!-- m -->
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and VIVIAN SALAMA November 5, 2014, 11:39 am 2
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Militia commanders told The Associated Press that dozens of advisers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Lebanese Hezbollah were on the front lines in Jurf al-Sakher, providing weapons training to some 7,000 troops and militia fighters, and coordinating with military commanders ahead of the operation.
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In June, Revolutionary Guard advisers under Soleimani provided guidance for Shiite militiamen in shelling Sunni insurgent positions around Samarra, a Sunni-majority city north of Baghdad that is home to a revered Shiite shrine, local commanders said. Soleimani was also seen as playing a key role in relieving the Islamic State siege of the Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli. And a top Revolutionary Guard general said in September that Soleimani had even helped Kurdish fighters defend their regional capital Irbil.
Militia commanders, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media, describe Soleimani as “fearless” — one pointing out that the Iranian general never wears a flak jacket, even on the front lines.
“Soleimani has taught us that death is the beginning of life, not the end of life,” one militia commander said.