We thought the savage, bloody rule of Sharia law under the Islamic State had been well documented.
We were wrong.
As coalition backed forces begin to wrest ground back from the savage control of ISIS, the true extent of their savagery is being uncovered. And it’s horrifying.
The Associated Press is reporting that it has documented and mapped 72 ISIS mass graves, the most comprehensive survey so far, with many more expected to be uncovered as the Islamic State group’s territory shrinks. In Syria, AP has obtained locations for 17 mass graves, including one with the bodies of hundreds of members of a single tribe all but exterminated when ISIS extremists took over their region. For at least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in territory too dangerous to excavate, officials do not even guess the number of dead. In others, the estimates are based on memories of traumatized survivors, Islamic State propaganda and what can be gleaned from a cursory look at the earth. Still, even the known victims buried are staggering — from 5,200 to more than 15,000.
Sinjar mountain is dotted with mass graves, some in territory clawed back from ISIS after the group’s onslaught against the Yazidi minority in August 2014; others in the deadly no man’s land that has yet to be secured.
ISIS made no attempt to hide its atrocities. In fact it boasted of them. But proving what United Nations officials and others have described as an ongoing genocide — and prosecuting those behind it — will be complicated as the graves deteriorate.
“We see clear evidence of the intent to destroy the Yazidi people,” said Naomi Kikoler, who recently visited the region for the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. “There’s been virtually no effort to systematically document the crimes perpetrated, to preserve the evidence, and to ensure that mass graves are identified and protected.”
Then there are the graves still out of reach. The Islamic State group’s atrocities extend well outside the Yazidi region in northern Iraq.
Satellites offer the clearest look at massacres such as the one at Badoush Prison in June 2014 that left 600 male inmates dead. A patch of scraped earth and tire tracks show the likely killing site, according to exclusive photos obtained by the imagery intelligence firm AllSource Analysis.
Of the 72 mass graves documented by AP, the smallest contains three bodies; the largest is believed to hold thousands, but no one knows for sure.
Nearly every area freed from ISIS control has unmasked new mass graves, like one found by the sports stadium in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. Many of the graves themselves are easy enough to find, most covered with just a thin coating of earth.
“They don’t even try to hide their crimes,” said Sirwan Jalal, the director of Iraqi Kurdistan’s agency in charge of mass graves. “They are beheading them, shooting them, running them over in cars, all kinds of killing techniques, and they don’t even try to hide it.”
No one outside ISIS has seen the Iraqi ravine where hundreds of Shiite prison inmates were killed point blank and then torched. Satellite images of scraped dirt along the river point to its location, according to Steve Wood of AllSource. His analysts triangulated survivors’ accounts and began to systematically search the desert according to their descriptions of that day, June 10, 2014.
The inmates were separated out by religion, and Shiites were loaded onto trucks, driven for a few kilometers (miles) and forced to line up and count off, according to accounts by 15 survivors gathered by Human Rights Watch. Then they knelt along the edge of the crescent-shaped ravine, according to a report cited by AllSource.
“I was number 43. I heard them say ‘615,’ and then one ISIS guy said, ‘We’re going to eat well tonight.’ A man behind us asked, ‘Are you ready?’ Another person answered ‘Yes,’ and began shooting at us with a machine-gun. Then they all started to shoot us from behind, going down the row,” according to the Human Rights Watch account of a survivor identified only as A.S.
The men survived by pretending to be dead.
Using their accounts and others, AllSource examined an image from July 17, 2014, that appeared to show the location as described, between a main road and the railway outside Mosul. The bodies are believed to be packed tightly together, side by side in a space approximately the length of two football fields end to end, in what the AllSource analysis described as a “sardine trench.” Tire tracks lead to and from the site.
“There’s actually earth that has been pushed over and actually moved to cover parts of the ravine. As we look across the entire ravine we only see that in this one location,” said Wood. “Ultimately there are many, many more sites across Iraq and Syria that have yet to be either forensically exhumed or be able to be detailed and there’s quite a bit more research that needs to take place.”
The key, Wood said, is having photos to indicate a grave’s location taken soon after its creation.
Justice has been done in at least one ISIS mass killing — that of about 1,700 Iraqi soldiers who were forced to lie face-down in a ditch and then machine-gunned at Camp Speicher. On Aug. 21, 36 men convicted in those killings were hanged at Iraq’s Nasiriyah prison.
But justice is likely to be elusive in areas still firmly under ISIS control, even though the extremists have filmed themselves committing the atrocities. That’s the case for a deep natural sinkhole outside Mosul that is now a pit of corpses. In Syria’s Raqqa province, thousands of bodies are believed to have been thrown into the giant al-Houta crevasse.
Conditions in much of Syria remain a mystery. Activists believe there are hundreds of mass graves in ISIS-controlled areas that can only be explored when fighting stops. By that time, they fear any effort to document the massacres, exhume and identify the remains will become infinitely more complicated.
Working behind ISIS lines, local residents have informally documented some mass graves, even partially digging some up. Some of the worst have been found in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour. There, 400 members of the Shueitat tribe were found in one grave, just some of the up to 1,000 members of the tribe believed to have been massacred by ISIS when the militants took over the area, said Ziad Awad, the editor of an online publication on Deir el-Zour called The Eye of the City who is trying to document the graves.
In Raqqa province, the bodies of 160 Syrian soldiers, killed when ISIS overran their base, were found in seven large pits.
So far, at least 17 mass graves are known, though largely unreachable, in a list put together from AP interviews with activists from Syrian provinces still under IS rule as well as fighters and residents in former ISIS strongholds.
“This is a drop in an ocean of mass graves expected to be discovered in the future in Syria,” said Awad.
FILE – In this April 3, 2015, file photo, an Iraqi man prays for his slain relative at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base in Tikrit, Iraq, in June 2014. An analysis by The Associated Press has found 72 mass graves left behind by Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, and many more are expected to be discovered as the group loses territory. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
The Associated Press contributed to this article
The U.S., Britain, France and Germany just sit by and let these evil haters commit atrocities. Shame on the large nations for allowing this evil to happen. It’s in the Boston Herald this morning as to how 10,000 middle east “refugees: have been allowed into the nation. Doctors, scientists and ambitious folks from Europe and Asia wait years in the hopes of getting a visa. Yet, hater cultures have an open door immigration policy and are on EBT within ours of arrival.
Its the libtarts that wont vote to let the USA cut off the head of the evil snakes of isis
So true!
Keep in mind…, that Obama and Hillary Clinton support ISIS…., That is a facts.
Because they want to keep added stir up more problematic and blame on Republican that is their goal.
Democrat Politician…. That is a FACTS! The Liberal design to manipulated everything with the help of Democrate…. These are the most evil kind of people….THAT IS TRUELY THE FACTS……! That is why inside all politican Government are all cover-up…. There are Half Good and Half Bad politician in the Capital Hill…… Trump will clean up inside Politician and protect America FIRST!
That isn’t true. The Republicans control the house and they can do something about it. They just don’t want to so they can blame the democrats. Grow up! We don’t have a two party system. We have a One World Order system. The Washington Party and what a party of lies and deception they are spewing. They both stink and need to get the stench out!
THEY CAN’T DO IT ON THEIR OWN, THEY HAVE TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF 60 DEMOCRATS TO GO ALONG WITH THEM … AND VICE VERSA.
OF COURSE OBAMA JUST MADE ILLEGAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
I DIDN’T READ YOUR WHOLE POST … YOU ARE RIGHT ON AT THE END OF IT. OOPS!
That’s why we need an “outsider” like Trump to be President. He’s not a professional politician but a businessman.
My very thoughts and condemnations. There are times when a government doesn’t know what to do for the best, in this case, the whole bunch of EU governments didn’t even try and now paying penance with much worse to come, this is just the beginning. Admittedly, we have been let down by our governments, so have the governments been let down by us. At the time the populous should have risen to support the politician and help the country from becoming bewildered, it didn’t! It is beyond the Western civilization to imagine human to human can be as savage as the wild as the Arab/Muslim race, who worships beyond anything else is to kill, and death. From what I hear, Eastern Europe is doing it’s best to keep its country sane by not getting involved with the mentally deranged Muslim.
I guess this is because the American president (Obama) is a Muslim himself.
How stupid can you get. That has never been proven. And if you were going to school in Indonesia, like it or not you would be forced to read the Quran. That is their law. Obama attended a Roman Catholic School while a young boy in Indonesia and he was forced to read the Quran. So get your facts straight.
If you can’t be truthful when you post then don’t post anything at all. The Republicans have tied Obama’s hands from doing anything and everything that is good for our people. That is why Hillary Clinton will be elected President of the United States. She won’t get my vote. But hate breeds hate.
Right on! I am sick and tired of the do nothing countries that have the power to stop ISIS. The same garbage and genocide of the Jews in World War 2. Some how after all that fighting and rounding up on race of people and nobody knew anything until after the war. Rotten liars! Global conspiracy! And obviously nothing is going to change. Now ISIS martyrs and murders people that are not Muslims. Rape women and murder anyone that doesn’t agree them. Make them glow in the dark. Bomb them to nothing but dirt. Annihilate every stinking last one of them from the face of the earth. God said he hated Esau before he was even born. I see why! Hillary Clinton won’t change a thing. Remember Bosnia under Bill Clinton and the massacres! Trump will put an end to it.
They will come thanks to the Obama and Clintons , We will all pay with her telling us she will raise taxes, They get like you said eat card and welfare with medical and do not forget the help from the housing authority……..We tax payers will pay and pay and pay…..
Every demon-possessed ISIS member should face the death penalty and their bodies should be desecrated in a way that will block their ability to enter “Paradise” with their 72 whores. These mass murderers are pure evil. Once this life is over they will stand before a Holy God drenched in the blood of their innocent victims. Their destination is hot, miserable and forever. These murderers are soldiers of a false god.
And let their friends and partners in our government and other globalists rot right along with them!
‘enter “Paradise” with their 72 whores’, it is actually 72 raisins! The translation of the virgins was a mistake. Go figure!
their demise is around the corner ,, the hell they caused many is nothing compared to what awaits them
Exactly right on! Theirs will be the whaling and gnashing of teeth when they burn in hell.
WELL, THEIR LAST MEAL COOK BE PORK …
Let their evil deed be visited back upon them but only with one exception let it be 1000 time worse .
They are doing this against all who are against their ideology and look to be a threat to them. Same as what the NWO is all about.
They start with people they hate just because they are different or of the wrong group and those of non–Muslims.
But Just like USA, the want a communist Nation and Muslims want USA to be all muslims.. but the Communists and Islam are just about the same in every ideology.
There is no different that l can see. Communists and ISIS both have mix race from all Nations.. but if you were not a Muslim by birth but join them , that makes you their slaves.
USA wants to kill all whites cause black are more easy for them to control. Just the rich Whites will be the true leaders. Soros want to be that one in Power. . I never knew just how EVIL Soros was. But now just like ISIS, he does NOT even try to hide his own ideology.. And he will pay others to kill for him, Just like Hitler ,Slalin and Mao .. Look at NK and that leader – l think he is call jung un or something like that.. Best known as doughboy LOL.. he kills just by thinking people are against him. He does not even need the proof and Erdogan is exactly the same way..
Soros is dead. So go find some other name and be accurate. Even Mao, Hitler and Stalin are all dead. The only man worth 2 cents is Putin. And the west is angry at him because he will do whatever he has to do to protect his people. And the same for China. They aren’t letting stinking Muslims in their countries.
The Yazidi are the current targets because they are available. And like Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. the Yazidi, we, are infidels. Infidels to them are an abomination to allah and it is the duty of muslims to cleanse the world of infidels. This is not the work of “radical” islamists, but the duty of all musiims. And O and H want to bring them into America. Likely the ones that are allowed to leave and even “sent” here are devoted to islam. Nothing happens in countries where sharia law is the law of the land without the govt knowing it and even orchestrating it. The so called refugees are hand picked and being sent here to help the work of transforming America and Europe to a sharia law country, and members of the Nation of Islam. Which is an islamic United Nations. A coalition of nations that have sharia law. Thus will be part of the kingdom of man, the global one world govt under the king, better known as the Caliphate. This is a knock off of the Kingdom of God taught by Jesus.
its time the arab league of nations to take action, isis is the cancer of islam and mankind.
… a real sweet crew of highly motivated religious fanatics our enlightened one and his supporters are bringing into the US by the thousands.
What could possibly go wrong!
So these pigs call Islam a religion? What then, attracts pigs to this religion? It can’t be because it gives them peace, it definitely does not put love in their hearts for mankind, it certainly can’t be because it fulfills their inner being, so what could it be? The only thought that comes across the mind is, they are crazy about killing, they are blood thirsty, human scum who lives as pigs to usurp the blood of others, like vampires that desires the blood of those who don’t believe as they do, as if they are addicted to murder. They are gutless pigs that bullies who they call, unbelievers. And, this group wants the world to believe that if we except Islam it will be heaven on earth, the women will have to cover their bodies, submit to man, walk behind the man, must cater to man’s every need, it will be ok with their religion to beat a woman, to rape a woman, to have slaves, to have more then one wife, and so on. So, what does the woman get out of this deal? Well? Can anyone tell me? I’m waiting??? The point I am trying to make is, Islam really sucks, and it ain’t a religion, unless of course, murder is their religion, and I guess that is possible? Don’t we get up every morning, get dress, maybe eat breakfast before we go off to work, after of course brushing our teeth, and don’t we do all this religiously? At least I hope so.
A great shame that our Govt’s turn a blind eye/deaf ear to these stories, & persist in welcoming these marauders into our Countries. We are no longer safe anywhere.
THIS NATION SHOULD START PRAYING TO GOD FOR OUR PROTECTION AND PUNISH THE EVIL DOERS THAT WANT TO DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE AS WE KNOW IT NOW A TRUE GOD THAT LOVES US ALL HE WILL SAVE US AND PROTECT US IN HIS TIME WE AS A NATION UNDER GOD NEED TO JOIN HANDS AND BELIEVE IN HIM AND PRAY FOR HIS LOVE TO SAVE US ALL
The person you should be mad at is George Soros, he is the culprit behind Hillary & Obama pulling all the strings allowing this to happen and not lifting a finger to stop it. What do you think will happen when 10,000 refugees hits America, this same behavior will happen Here.
WHEN WILL ISIS BE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR WHAT THEY ARE? DISEASED PARASITES! Like any rampart germ, eradication is the answer. This group has no higher level on Earth than germs.
My Son served in FOB Speicher about 5 years ago. Thank Our God that he’s back in one piece. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who lost Loved Ones, for what IS ANOTHER BLUNDER BY the currant JOKE OF AN ADMINISTRATION.
To think that because of Obama and Clintons decisions, all the secured area’s of Iraq that the US and its Allies fought for were lost to ISIS.
The carnage that this religion has inflicted on all people of our planet is atrocious, and to think that there is a chance that Bill Clintons WIFE, and the leanings of her boss The Impostor & Chief who let 4 AMERICAN MEN die a terrible death, may get into office to give us another term of Disgrace for our Country to live through.
If I were President, or Secretary of State, Ambassador Chris Stevens at The Embassy would not needed to make any emergency
calls.
I would have had a full contingent of American Soldiers to protect our interests.
Who the hell does she and he think they are?
It amazes me that the LEFT IS UNABLE TO put 2 +2 together and come up with 4.
Blacks and Hispanics are losing the jobs that the illegals are taking.
Do they not want to work and be productive members of our American Culture?
By voting Democratic, they are empowering the Party that is keeping them at the poverty level.
Statistics don’t lie, as long as they are told to the public accurately.
93 Million Americans are out of work or not attempting to find work anymore.
Lets see…. That’s equal to 30% unemployment. A little different than what ABC, NBC, OR CBS tells you.
Illegals are flooding Our Country… Obama and Hilly bring in 10 k more Syrians, probably unvetted within the
past day or so.
Foreign policy…. What a joke, along with John “Live Shot” Kerry. Iran Nuke Deal????? WTF
Illegal Emails, Strange Clinton Deaths, and its still going on………………. I could go on & on………
But lets hope everybody gets on the Trump Bandwagon, because if we have to go thru another 4 years of someone following in Barry Sodoros footsteps………. We are all… (Except for those living in gated communities) going to be in a world of trouble.
Thanks to all our Troops …Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, and ALL of the additional service men and woman who may not be recognized, but are doing their job none the less here in America supporting our interests and protecting others around the Globe,and to all the American Armed Forces around the Earth, saving lives, offering aid to those in need, and for their dedication to service.
I’m a proud Father of an Army Captain who is an Airborne Ranger.
currently based at Fort Bragg.
God Bless Our United States of America
And Colon Kaepernick can go to a foreign 3rd world country, to see the good that the United States Military does.
This snot nosed athlete needs a good dose of humility, which at this point in his career may do him some good.
The angst between races in this nation was brought on by Barack Obama and the Democrats.
When the White Caucasian Hating Impostor in the White House is gone and the country can breath a sigh of relief,
hopefully shortly thereafter, Companies will start rehiring, and we can be once again , The Nation ALL Countries want to Emulate
For the life of me I cannot believe Hillary’s experience as Secretary of State is good experience. This entire disaster in the middle east, which will be spreading to the USA under Hillat\ry’s and Obama’s GREAT DIPLOMATIC EXPERIENCE will end up causing a war in and bombings,etc in the USA very soon. 10,000 un-vetted refugees are coming now. The FBI and others with half a brain have said this is a serious homeland threat to the USA. It is more apparent there is a much larger, sinister plan playing out behind the scenes with OBAMA, HILLARY & BILL, GEORGE SOROS, TYHE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE MUSLIM UN,
AND HILLARY WANTS OUR GUNS???MEXICO AND FRANCE HAVE A NO GUN POLICY HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT??
THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT SURVIVE 4 MORE YEARS OF HILLARY AS OBAMA 3. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY..HOPEFULLY COMMON SENSE WILL PREVAIL ESPECIALLY AMOUNG BLACK VOTERS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS SCREWED AND EN-SLAVED FOR YEARS.
The important question is how many people under ISIS control oppose ISIS vs. how many people actually support these devils.
Thanks to O’Bozo & Hillary the “Hun” we have ISIS to contend with, but O’Bozo is intent on bringing as many Syrians into our country as possible and Hillary will increase the numbers many times over – forget some maybe ISIS operatives, but what do they care their security details are armed while they want to disarm us.
To see what this tyrannical leader of our country is CONDONING makes me sick. I’m sure he has been briefed and still doesn’t do a damn thing about eradicating these animals into oblivion He is doing .what the elite want to happen help in depopulating the world down to what they want along with helping the UN taking over our country and getting rid of our declaration and the bill of rights. He is such a curse to our country and no one is doing a darn thing about it. Congress and Senate are just going along with what ever he wants. He has bypassed our congress on so many topics and they are letting him get away with it. They sicken me to no end. THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA THAT I GREW UP WITH OR THAT MY FATHER DIED FOR. THE GOV. THAT WE HAVE HAD LATELY IS TURNING US INTO SOCIALIST AND TYRANNY. WITH A IRON FIST.
US intelligence documents revealed Obama invented Daesh, aka ISIS, to take down Assad, CBS exposed this year. But the story was quickly swept under the rug without further coverage. Shortly after CBS’s story, CNN interviewed a democrat congresswoman, from Hawaii, who admitted congress knew Obama invented ISIS to take down Assad in Syria, but she claimed congress did not agree to fund it. That story was quickly swept under the rug without further coverage as well. Before these stories came out WND news covered the story about how H.Clinton helped Obama funnel weapons to jihadists in Libya through a Muslim front man who was their fall guy and was still in prison for their crimes, fighting to be released. Wikileaks substantiated this story from the emails Clinton was hiding. Obama’s and Hillary’s activities with ISIS in Libya ended with our embassy staff in Benghazi dead an ISIS genocide, a resulting refugee crisis, and the terror attacks. Some of the missing Fast and Furious US weapons were found to have been used in the Paris terror attack according to NewsMax.
Before this all these news stories came out, I said to my husband, “how much do you want to bet Clinton’s emails are hidden to cover for the fact they’re proof that Obama aided and abetted ISIS?” Was I right or what?
OMG YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY HILLARY DID NOT KILL THE PEOPLE ISIS DID THAT I GUSS HILLARY KILLED ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE TWIN TOWERS I FEEL SORRY FOR ALL OF YOU MY GOD YOU ALL NEED HELP !nn IT IS BETTER TO LOVE THAN TO HATE,