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Amazing photos. Thank you Deathhand.
Some posters are wondering why or how the Iraqi military could melt away so fast, running and throwing off their uniforms. It's because the officers were Shia men in Sunni inhabited territory. Most of the men under their command were also Sunnis. In fairness to those Shia officers, they didn't believe they could successfully order Sunnis to fight Sunnis in Sunniland. They beat a path south back to their homeland before they were captured and executed like the less fortunate guys pictured above.
Under Saddam Hussein the Sunni were able to sentry the Shia inhabited region because it was Sunni officers commanding Sunnis. Whenever there was a Shia uprising, and there were, the Sunni officers could count on their men to stay and fight on sectarian loyalties alone.
It was a mistake for Maliki's government to recruit Sunnis into the police and military at anything but a token ratio. He only did it because he feared that if he didn't pay them to walk around in uniforms and pretend they were soldiers, they would become insurgents. And that's true.
What's inevitable;
Daash is going to roll up all Sunni Arab territories in Iraq and Syria. It's going to clean out its NATO sponsored rivals in the FSA and its GCC sponsored rivals in the Islamic Front. It will lose territory from time to time, the tide will ebb but in the end this is a flood and it will only stop at Shia, Kurd, Druze, and Alawite inhabited regions. All that will remain in contention is how much of Baghdad, Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus will be bitten off. This is a given. Once Daash has consolidated it's hold in Sunni Arab Iraq & Syria, it'll try to roll up as proxies and allies Al Qaeda's global branches and affiliates; As Shabaab, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, AQ in Yemen, AQ in Mali & Algeria, the Sinai,etc. Daash will begin making ties with the Taliban and the "Caucasus Emirate", it'll set up Palestinian camps in Lebanon, it'll begin seeping into Jordan and plotting the overthrow of the monarchy there. All the while Daash will continue to win over AQ's traditional donors in the Arab Gulf; anti-Saudi, anti-American, and anti-Israeli businessmen who'll fork over the cash and recruits in expectation that Daash will pick up the tradition of terrorist strikes in the kingdom and abroad.
This is where we're going.
The biggest loser, at first, will be Iran. Under reformist leadership it will try to reach a detente with the United States (ending its nuclear program in exchange for lifting of sanctions) but Israel will oppose this and sabotage it. Having failed, Iran's reformist leadership will be ousted in a military coup in alliance with Iranian conservatives. They'll put Iran in a space race with its Sunni rivals, 'who can hit Israel the hardest'. Israel will find itself at war with Salafists in the SInai and Jordan, and Iranian backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, and both in Syria.
Some posters are wondering why or how the Iraqi military could melt away so fast, running and throwing off their uniforms. It's because the officers were Shia men in Sunni inhabited territory. Most of the men under their command were also Sunnis. In fairness to those Shia officers, they didn't believe they could successfully order Sunnis to fight Sunnis in Sunniland. They beat a path south back to their homeland before they were captured and executed like the less fortunate guys pictured above.
Under Saddam Hussein the Sunni were able to sentry the Shia inhabited region because it was Sunni officers commanding Sunnis. Whenever there was a Shia uprising, and there were, the Sunni officers could count on their men to stay and fight on sectarian loyalties alone.
It was a mistake for Maliki's government to recruit Sunnis into the police and military at anything but a token ratio. He only did it because he feared that if he didn't pay them to walk around in uniforms and pretend they were soldiers, they would become insurgents. And that's true.
What's inevitable;
Daash is going to roll up all Sunni Arab territories in Iraq and Syria. It's going to clean out its NATO sponsored rivals in the FSA and its GCC sponsored rivals in the Islamic Front. It will lose territory from time to time, the tide will ebb but in the end this is a flood and it will only stop at Shia, Kurd, Druze, and Alawite inhabited regions. All that will remain in contention is how much of Baghdad, Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus will be bitten off. This is a given. Once Daash has consolidated it's hold in Sunni Arab Iraq & Syria, it'll try to roll up as proxies and allies Al Qaeda's global branches and affiliates; As Shabaab, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, AQ in Yemen, AQ in Mali & Algeria, the Sinai,etc. Daash will begin making ties with the Taliban and the "Caucasus Emirate", it'll set up Palestinian camps in Lebanon, it'll begin seeping into Jordan and plotting the overthrow of the monarchy there. All the while Daash will continue to win over AQ's traditional donors in the Arab Gulf; anti-Saudi, anti-American, and anti-Israeli businessmen who'll fork over the cash and recruits in expectation that Daash will pick up the tradition of terrorist strikes in the kingdom and abroad.
This is where we're going.
The biggest loser, at first, will be Iran. Under reformist leadership it will try to reach a detente with the United States (ending its nuclear program in exchange for lifting of sanctions) but Israel will oppose this and sabotage it. Having failed, Iran's reformist leadership will be ousted in a military coup in alliance with Iranian conservatives. They'll put Iran in a space race with its Sunni rivals, 'who can hit Israel the hardest'. Israel will find itself at war with Salafists in the SInai and Jordan, and Iranian backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, and both in Syria.
americanpsycho
Fresh Meat
I have a couple of friends from Iraq. One of them said he'd prefer ISIS over his government, calling them good people.
Islam means peace.... 
Yep - I haven't processed them yet but will post them tonight.
Keep in mind this is US spending so most of it was pissed away into the sand. Shia milita guys in rent-a-hummers are hardly an army to be feared. Where is the airpower? oh that's right there is none.The U.S government spent(wasted) approx. 17 billion dollars training and equipping the Iraqi army, then ISIS shows up and the Iraqi army runs like a bunch of pussies and ISIS takes over Iraqi military bases and steals all the U.S. arms and vehicles and are now using that shit.
http://www.thenational.ae/world/ira...force-struggles-to-repel-advancing-insurgents
You have to wonder why the Iraqi's are spending 4-5 billion with the russians now, i think the US/Iraq rimjob is coming to an end
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/baby-come-back-iraq-is-buying-russian-weapons-again-07571/
These aren't the best quality (cellphone pics), even after I touched them up a bit. But nonetheless, here are a bunch of crucifixion pics that are mostly from Syria and one or two from Iraq.
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5. This group of men were crucified when ISIS members found out they had converted to Christianity.
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11. Gotta love the food truck in the background.
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Personally, I'd rather take the beating and a few gun shots to kill me before I was tied to a cross.
At least they finally bought HD cameras
baby14
Lurker
this man was an IS (Islamic State) member, crucified by IS member. that's right. same clan... and why ? because he stole a civilian. so by the Sharia law, he has been killed, cruicified and exposed like this for 3 days. (hope you understand my english
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