ISIS fighters have executed another 50 members of the Albu Nimr tribe, a powerful Sunni tribe in the easternmost portion of Iraq’s western Anbar Province, bringing the overall death toll in a recent purge to at least 322.
The Albu Nimr tribe was a powerful force in the Sunni Awakening factions during the US occupation, and is one of the few Sunni tribes in Anbar to remain loyal to the Iraqi government.
The tribe resisted when ISIS pushed into eastern Anbar, particularly around the city of Hit, though over the past week they lost their remaining territory in a sustained push.
ISIS has been keen to stay on good terms with the Sunni tribals in territories they’ve taken over, but those that have resisted have been met with wholesale massacres, as the group aims to intimidate other tribes against trying to resist them.
The massacre severely reduces Albu Nimr’s remaining power, and also hurts their relations with the Iraqi government, as they insist their calls for military aid were not answered. PM Abadi insists airstrikes have been launched over the weekend in response to the killings, but this seems very much after the fact, and limited at any rate.
Was Empire USA any less brutal during it’s ten years of imperial occupation?
Well, well, well. story of the dog that did not bark. What is it that we are NOT hearing? No "human rights" demanding that our conscience be awakened at the horrors of executing whole families, killing children, cutting them with saws, hanging pieces on the trees. No mention of women as they are subjected to undescribable torture and death. No media deeply "disturbed", "afraid", "concerned", "horrified". No typical Murdochized language of fake sentimentality. Just the opposite — a sense of envy at ISIL "media savvy", as they sport a cool black outfit with leather strap, ready to execute an orange clad western victim. Basic media manipulation 101. Executions of American and then British subjects was very welcome — those spectacles erroded the resistance of the populace of these two nations to more foreign adventures in the Middle East and elsewhere. The creators of wars have become very clever and sophisticated. They took a deeply divided and poor Ukraine, and created a regime that will poke at Russia. This way, old generations, so fond of their memories of Russian enemy, would find their comfort. While the cool ISIS and its brutality would get the attention of the video games generation — that would fall easy pray to going along with the sci-fi image of our invicible drones and missiles and bad guys in the desert. Naturally, both, the Ukrainian chaos, as well as ISIL adventures, are of our own making, paid for by the money we currently do not have, but is borrowed from our future generations. Whatever it takes to insure that the money monster will continue growing bigger and bigger, until it devours everything in sight. Until we prove the impossible — that our invention, money, in fact will be the last one standing, after it devours everything real — land, people, factories, mines, houses, infrastructure. When the money monster in the end owns everything — humans will not have the right to drink water, not even the one that falls from the sky without compensating the owners of the universe by offering their body and mind in exchange. And we are willingly going along — not even seeing what is rather obvious. And not noticing even when a dog that is supposed to bark — is not.