ISIS militants press forward, threaten to seize more Iraqi cities as soldiers bolt

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Re: ISIS militants press forward, threaten to seize more Iraqi cities as soldiers bol

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This is disastrous. ISIS’s massacres of Shia prisoners is designed to enflame sectarian violence and whip up such hatred against Sunnis that Sunnis will feel obligated to fight for ISIS to avoid revenge massacres.

All the news that I’m reading suggests that the conflict is directly shaping up on purely sectarian lines. This is far, far worse than Syria. May Allah SWT bring peace to Iraq swiftly. Aameen.

According to an iraqi friend of mine. It was’t ISIS who killed shia prisoners. In fact the prisoners were sunni and most likely from Mosul. Maliki dressed his army into ISIS clothes to trick everyone and killed sunni prisoners claiming they were shia so that he would be able to attack Mosul without consequences. What actually happened is that in Mosul people have been kidnapped by the government and tortured despite the people protesting. So a group of locals from Mosul uprose against the injustice and kicked out the iraqi army with minimal harm. Most of the iraqi army ran away as you saw on the news. Maliki got his own army to dress up as ISIS and kill innocent civilians so that USA would support him attacking Mosul.