45 people burned to death by jihadists in Iraq
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A US Army Apache helicopter fires at unarmed and non-threatening civilians. These two videos have been sent to the US congress, and hopefully the US military scum bags associated with this...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi reopens national museum and vows to prevent Islamic State militants from selling stolen artifacts. (Reuters)
BAGHDAD Iraqs national museum in Baghdad officially reopened to the public Saturday, 12 years after it was shuttered because of the looting of thousands of ancient artifacts in the days following the U.S.-led invasion.
As Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi cut the red ribbon at the Iraq Museum, officials said the decision to reopen ahead of schedule was intended to send a message of defiance to Islamic State militants who released a video last week showing black-clad men destroying museum statues in the northern city of Mosul.
[Watch: Islamic State militants smash ancient, irreplaceable artifacts with sledgehammers.]
Iraqi authorities have worked for years to recover some of the estimated 15,000 items stolen from the national museum in 2003, when looting went largely unchecked by U.S. forces. Some 4,300 have been returned, from countries including Lebanon, Jordan and the United States, according to Iraqi officials.
The contrast between images of the destruction in Mosuls museum and the gleaming new display cases in Baghdad serves as a reminder that Iraq remains a country divided. While the extremists retain their grip in Iraqs north and west, a growing sense of confidence is apparent in Baghdad, where a long-standing midnight curfew was lifted last month.
Our hearts were broken when those artifacts were broken in Mosul, said Qassim Sudani, a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Now the national museum has reopened, it will be a lung that allows the Iraqi people to breathe again.
The Islamic State has systematically laid waste to ancient tombs and artifacts in areas the group controls. It maintains that pre-Islamic icons and statues are forbidden under its extremist interpretation of Islam. Still, officials suspect that the group has sold off items small enough to be smuggled out of the country on the black market.
The Baghdad museum will open its doors to the public on Sunday, following years of delays due to security concerns. Dignitaries and officials have been able to visit since 2009.
Among the items on display will be the alabaster Warka Vase, found in the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk and dating back to about 3000 B.C. It was wrenched from its display case in April 2003 during the ransacking, prompting outraged questions about why coalition troops didnt do more to protect the museum from looting. The vase was returned in more than a dozen pieces in an amnesty a few months later.
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Shuttered for a decade, Iraqs national museum reopens its doors
Little known to the wider world 18 months ago, the Islamic State extremist group has muscled its way into the international spotlight by carving out a self-declared caliphate in the heart of the Mideast, beheading its opponents and foreign journalists, and attracting radicalized youth as far afield as Paris, London and New York.
The militants' once seemingly unstoppable push across Syria and Iraq has slowed to a crawl in recent months as the United States, its Arab allies and even rival Iran work to roll back the group and ultimately defeat it. Despite those efforts, the extremists show little sign of crumbling under the weight of international efforts to crush it.
Here's a look at what happened this week involving the extremist group and the fight against it:
SYRIA AND IRAQ: KIDNAPPING CHRISTIANS AND SMASHING ANCIENT ARTIFACTS
In northeastern Syria, the militants swept through several villages and seized more than 220 Christians from their homes over a three-day stretch beginning around dawn Monday. The onslaught also forced thousands of people to flee to nearby cities. The fate of those kidnapped, almost all of them Assyrian Christians, remains unclear. The abductions have compounded fears among religious minorities in both Syria and Iraq, where the Islamic State group's fighters have repeatedly targeted minorities, killing them, driving them from their homes, enslaving their women and destroying their places of worship.
In northern Iraq, meanwhile, the militants took sledgehammers and drills to smash ancient Mesopotamian statues and other artifacts in the city of Mosul, including a winged-bull that dated to the 7th century B.C. The destruction, documented in a video posted online, is part of a wider campaign by the extremists to eliminate anything that they view as heretical. UNESCO's director general, Irina Bokova condemned the destruction, calling it "a deliberate attack against Iraq's millennial history and culture" and "an inflammatory incitement to violence and hatred."
LONDON TO SYRIA: THREE SCHOOLGIRLS LEAVE HOME TO JOIN THE MILITANTS
The long reach of the Islamic State group was felt in London this week with the news that three teenage girls had left their families with the apparent intent of joining a friend who already was with the extremists in Syria. It was another indication that IS had at least some appeal to a small number of Britons who may believe propaganda videos posted online about the building of a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
The CCTV photos of casually dressed Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, leaving London's Gatwick Airport on a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul captivated Britain for days. The girls' distraught families issued urgent, tearful pleas imploring the girls to turn back once they arrived in Turkey rather than entering Syria. Prime Minister David Cameron warned that every school and college in Britain needs to play a role in stopping people from joining what he called "an appalling death cult."
The search proved fruitless. London police said Tuesday that their information indicated the girls had successfully crossed into Syria, where they are thought to have linked up with the Islamic State group. Officials say 500 to 600 Britons have traveled to Syria to help the militants, with an increasing number of young women showing an interest in the group.
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