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Crime Against Humanity Yesterday ISIS went beyond the beheadings, the mass murders, and tossing gays from rooftops. ISIS lead bomb experts destroyed the 840 year old Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret. US officials told CNN the ISIS claim was rather than have it fall into coalition lead forces in the city of Mosel. It's difficult to overstate the symbolic importance of the Old City mosque, whose landmark minaret rose over the city for more than 800 years. It was during Friday prayers here on July 4, 2014, that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the founding of a new caliphate and called on fellow Sunnis to carry out a holy war. This was the first and last time the leader of the terrorist group spoke publicly to his followers. The mosque's imam had been executed about a month earlier for refusing to join ISIS, according to the United Nations. Baghdadi's declaration effectively broke down borders between Syria and Iraq, creating a magnet for foreign fighters wanting to join ISIS' cause. For years, the militant group's black and white flag fluttered from the minaret, a symbol of ISIS' control. The United States and Iraq said ISIS blew up a historic mosque in Mosul that was the ideological heart of the terror group and the birthplace of its self-declared caliphate. ISIS, through its news agency, said US warplanes were responsible for the loss late Wednesday of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret. US officials told CNN the ISIS claim was "1,000% false." Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the ISIS act amounts to "an official announcement of their defeat." His military commanders said militants blew the mosque up after troops closed within 50 meters of it. Tradition holds that Nur ad-Din Zangi, a Turkish atabeg of the Great Seljuk Empire and sultan of its Syrian province, built the mosque in 1172–1173, shortly before his death. The mosque was well known for its leaning minaret, known as al-Hadba’ ("the hunchback"). Grattan Geary, a 19th-century traveler, described the minaret's appearance: It is several feet out of the perpendicular, though it starts fair from the ground, and at the top, before putting on its gallery and dome, it regains an erect posture. Its attitude is that of a man bowing. |
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22/6/2017 6:02 pm |
This wasn't the first historical site ISIS has destroyed.
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22/6/2017 6:02 pm |
but hopefully it will be the last.
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22/6/2017 6:04 pm |
The Roman ruins in Palmyra are gone... lost.
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22/6/2017 6:05 pm |
I sincerely hope these brutal thugs are shown no mercy and executed to rid humanity of their genetic pool.
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Let ISIS destroy themselves. Don't waste any more tax payer dollars fighting them, only to make them stronger.
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22/6/2017 7:53 pm |
Saying the U.S. bomb it, FAKE NEWS. Are they in cahoots with the libs or vice versa??
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22/6/2017 8:14 pm |
Let ISIS destroy themselves. Don't waste any more tax payer dollars fighting them, only to make them stronger.
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22/6/2017 8:17 pm |
Well said, well said indeed.
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22/6/2017 8:20 pm |
Saying the U.S. bomb it, FAKE NEWS. Are they in cahoots with the libs or vice versa??
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22/6/2017 9:32 pm |
I don't no any thing about it I am so sorry
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Pathetic historical global antiquities loss caused by their own.
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27/6/2017 8:34 pm |
Pathetic historical global antiquities loss caused by their own.
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