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Father Khalid on the Church in Iraq
On Sunday, October 5, 2014, the Assumptionist Center in Brighton, MA, held its inaugural "Conversation at the Center: The Church Outside Boston." Father Khalid Marogi spoke with us about the...
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Baghdad (CNN) -- There's been no shortage of news coverage of the atrocities carried out by ISIS against the people of Iraq and Syria, from beheadings to massacres to selling kidnapped women into sexual slavery.
What's less well known is the devastation the Sunni extremist group is wreaking on Iraq's priceless cultural heritage.
Thousands of years before the birth of Christ, the people of Mesopotamia mastered the first writing system, mathematics, astronomy, literature and law.
Iraq's past, however, is threatened by the nightmare of its present.
ISIS is not only at war with the Iraqi state, it's also at war with Iraq's very identity -- blowing up religious shrines, slaughtering and enslaving minorities such as the Yazidis, Christians and Turkmen, and executing its enemies.
And what it hasn't destroyed, ISIS is selling on the black market.
Qais Hussain Rashid, director general of Iraqi museums, told CNN of the depredations carried out by ISIS militants.
"They cut these reliefs and sell them to criminals and antique dealers," he said, gesturing toward an ornate carving dating back thousands of years.
"Usually they cut off the head, leaving the legs, because the head is the valuable part."
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Shi'ite fighters pose with a black flag belonging to the Islamic State, which they pulled down after capturing the town of Jurf al-Sakhar from the Islamic State militants, south of Baghdad October 26, 2014. REUTERS
BAGHDAD -- Two car bombings in Iraq, including one where a suicide attacker drove a Humvee into a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government Shiite militiamen, killed at least 34 people Monday, authorities said.
The deadliest attack struck the outskirts of the Sunni town of Jurf al-Skhar, where the suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden Humvee into the checkpoint, killing at least 24 people and wounding 25, a police officer said. Most of those killed were members of the Shiite militia, he added.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Jurf al-Sakhar is 30 miles south of Baghdad, but the bombing bore all the hallmarks of an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
ISIS militants lost control of the town Sunday, when Iraqi soldiers and the Shiite militia retook it from the Sunni extremist group. ISIS seized the town in July as part of its blitz that captured large swaths of northern and western Iraq.
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In the wake of the group's advance, Shiite militias answered a call by Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to join government forces in fighting the extremists.
Jurf al-Sakhar is part of a predominantly Sunni ribbon of territory that runs just south of Baghdad and lies on a road usually taken by Shite pilgrims to the holy Shiite city of Karbala further south.
Pilgrims will be taking the route next week to commemorate the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein - one of the most revered Shiite martyrs.
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