Thursday, February 5, 2015

Of COURSE They're Not "Savages!"

AN UPDATE
From the New York Times today:

Islamic State Selling, Crucifying, Burying Children Alive in Iraq-U.N.
By REUTERS
FEBRUARY 4, 2015

GENEVA — Islamic State militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday.
Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.
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The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq's record for the first time since 1998, denounced "the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive".

What was Chris Kyle thinking?

from: The Michael Bane Blog