Iraq militants seize Mosul

[Ragnus]

@25 seconds in. Also, yeah late response. Sorry.

I never thought I'd see anyone bring this great show up in an appropriate political context. Bravo.

[Andalusian girls]

the 7-month battle for Mosul is entering its final days. the coalition says ISIS has been pushed into a small corner of Western Mosul, and the Iraqi government is hoping to declare victory by the start of Ramadan (11 days).

A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition backing Iraqi forces said the enemy was completely surrounded in the city and its fighters and resources were being destroyed.

"The enemy is on the brink of total defeat in Mosul," U.S. Air Force Colonel John Dorrian told a news conference in Baghdad.

With the help of advisers and air strikes by the coalition, Iraqi forces have made rapid gains since opening a new front in the northwest of Mosul earlier this month, closing in on the Old City.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mi...-idUSKCN18C0VK

[archibaldcrane]

How long til we pull out and the Freshman team of Al QISIS 3.0 takes it back again?

[Andalusian girls]

probably whenever we next elect a professor of law to conduct foreign policy

[Andalusian girls]

[Day]

banger

[6souls]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39421435

US may be responsible for the bombing that killed 140 civilians.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40051640

*105 Civs. US strike was made to kill 2 snipers. Militants had been storing explosives in the main building which was hit and caused a higher death toll.

[tyven]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40051640

*105 Civs. US strike was made to kill 2 snipers. Militants had been storing explosives in the main building which was hit and caused a higher death toll.

let us hope none of our teen stars perform near any ammunition depots on the near future.

[Cail]

Iraqi troops torture and execute civilians in secret videos

[mallister]

*shocking!*

[archibaldcrane]

Not Iraqi, but looks like the siege on Raqqa in Syria is starting. YPG Kurds / Arab militias allied as the Syrian Defense Forces with US airstrikes.

[Cail]

Conflict News‏ @Conflicts
BREAKING: ISIS blows up the Great Mosque of al Nouri as Iraqi CT units approached. Where al-Baghdadi declared the caliphate - @BarzanSadiq

[Cail]

Drone image of the site:

[Andalusian girls]

destroy an irreplaceable millennium-old Islamic house of worship in the name of Islam. nailed it ISIS, nailed it.

[Cail]

destroy an irreplaceable millennium-old Islamic house of worship in the name of Islam. nailed it ISIS, nailed it.

They, of course, say the US destroyed it

[tyven]

They, of course, say the US destroyed it

Was it full of innocents? If so they may have a case

[Cail]

Sky News Newsdesk‏ @SkyNewsBreak
Reuters: Russian Foreign Ministry says it can say with a high degree of certainty that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead

[Talint]

I have no idea where to post this story. I guess here since Hobby Lobby is funding ISIS. This is the same Hobby Lobby that actively tried to deny women birth control.

Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq

In 2010, as a deal for the tablets was being struck, an expert on cultural property law who had been hired by Hobby Lobby warned company executives that the artifacts might have been looted from historical sites in Iraq, and that failing to determine their heritage could break the law.

Despite these words of caution, the prosecutors said, Hobby Lobby bought more than 5,500 artifacts — the tablets and clay talismans and so-called cylinder seals — from an unnamed dealer for $1.6 million in December 2010.

In addition to the complaint, the prosecutors on Wednesday filed a stipulation of settlement with Hobby Lobby that requires the company to return all of the pieces, and to forfeit to the government an additional $3 million, resolving the civil action.

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Instead, on the instructions of a second dealer, Hobby Lobby wired payments to seven separate personal bank accounts, the prosecutors said. The first dealer then shipped the items marked as clay or ceramic tiles to three Hobby Lobby sites in Oklahoma. All of the packages had labels falsely identifying their country of origin as Turkey, prosecutors said.

[Day]

Tried? Didn't they win the SCOTUS case?

[tyven]

Hobby Lobby funding ISIS is the bridge that white America and Islam have needed for ages. God bless these fucking lunatics