Iraq : 1,700 Killed In Mass Executions Of Civilians and Soldiers in Mosul, Say UN!!

Not For Profit - For Justice "The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress." - Terry Eagleton   "Your best teacher is your last mistake." - Ralph Nader   Op-Ed Articles   Capture of Mosul Ushers in the Birth of a Sunni Caliphate  تسخیر موصل نوید بخش تولد خلیفه سنی By Patrick Cockburn   If the Isis advance takes more towns and villages, then the territory lost to the government may become too large to reconquer. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38791.htm   Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia  خلیفه سنی ها توسط عربستان سعودی حمایت مادی میشود By Robert Fisk   The jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis - and by Kuwaiti oligarchs - now rule thousands of square miles. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38798.htm     Iraq in Hell: Blame the Necons! The secret history of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi  عراق در جهنم : نئو محافظه کاران را سرزنش کنید تاریخ پنهان ابوبکر ال بغدادی By Joseph Cannon   Even fighters for the rival Nusra front -- the Syrian rebels who eat hearts and desecrate churches -- temporarily broke with ISIS, on the grounds that ISIS is too extreme. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38792.htm     America's Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq تهاجم مجدد پنهان آمریکا درعراق   By Tony Cartalucci   With the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, creating a long desired "buffer zone" within which to harbor, arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38793.htm     How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict  چگونه آمریکا به هر دو طرف جنگ در عراق تسهیلات نظامی میدهد By Tyler Durden   The clear winner here? 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Unconfirmed reports say 1,700 Shia soldiers have been executed. "We've also had reports suggesting that the government forces have also committed excesses, in particular the shelling of civilian areas. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-crisis-isis-carried-out-executions-civilians-soldiers-mosul-say-un-1452511     Voices from Mosul under ISIS control: The first images from the Iraqi city of Mosul after its seizure by Islamist militants showed deserted streets, vehicles ablaze and discarded uniforms left by fleeing government troops. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27811644     10 Iraqi soldiers killed in attack in Baghdad's north: The army troops killed in attack suspected to have been carried out by militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/344658--10-iraqi-soldiers-killed-in-attack-in-baghdads-north     Iraq forces battle militants near Baghdad: Diyala province is the latest battleground for Iraqi forces and militants, who are growing closer to Baghdad. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/13/iraq-forces-battle-militants-near-baghdad     Senior Shiite cleric calls on Iraqis to take up arms: آیت الله سیستانی اعلام جهاد کرد Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has urged his followers to take up arms to defend themselves against a