Obama, Obama did you see Christian Blood in the Sea?

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It's a nursing home? My bad, I thought it was the Methadone clinic.

Dimentia is no laughing matter. I feel for the guy. Edited February 27, 2015 by spookyturtle

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Syrian Christians Citizens abducted by Islamic State rises to 220

BEIRUT — The number of Christians citizens abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria has risen to 220 in the past three days, as militants round up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river, activists said Thursday.

In Iraq, the Islamic State extremists released a video purportedly showing militants using sledgehammers to smash ancient artifacts in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, describing the relics as idols that must be removed.

This week’s abductions of the Christian Assyrians in northeastern Syria is one of the largest hostage-takings by the Islamic State since their blitz last year that captured large swaths of both Syria and Iraq last year. The fate of the captives was not known.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Britain said the militants picked up dozens more Christian Assyrians from 11 communities near the town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh province.

The province, which borders Turkey and Iraq, has become the latest battleground in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria. It is predominantly Kurdish but also has populations of Arabs and predominantly Christian Assyrians and Armenians.

Islamic State began abducting the Assyrians on Monday, when militants attacked a cluster of villages along the Khabur River, sending thousands of people fleeing to safer areas.

The mass abduction added to fears among religious minorities citizens in both Syria and Iraq, who have been repeatedly targeted by the Islamic State group. The extremists have declared a self-styled caliphate in the regions of both countries that are under their control, killing members of religious minorities citizens, driving others from their homes, enslaving women folks and destroying houses of worship.

The group has killed captives in the past, including foreign journalists, Syrian soldiers and Kurdish militiamen. Most recently, militants in Libya affiliated with Islamic State released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians citizens.

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Syrian-Christians-abducted-by-Islamic-State-rises-6104043.php

Edited February 27, 2015 by ExExpat

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Meanwhile, Obama 0bola Obuya is kicking some ISIS derrieres... We should expect several posts recognizing this effort by the POTUS...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/26/us-mideast-crisis-syria-christians-idUSKBN0LU0KX20150226

Air strikes hit Islamic State in Syria after Christians abducted

(Reuters) - A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes targeted Islamic State fighters near the town of Tel Tamr, where the militants, also known as ISIS, had captured 10 Assyrian villages.

Edited February 27, 2015 by JohnR!

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ISIS Has Begun Executing Captured Christians, According to Report

Unconfirmed report warns of mass execution of "infidels" tomorrow.

Islamic State militants have reportedly executed 15 Christians who have been captured in villages in northeastern Syria since Monday.

A priest who has been feeding reports to Christian aid agencies around the world, including Aleteia partner Aid to the Church in Need, said today that a Christian Assyrian lawyer in the city of Hassakah told him that about 15 young Assyrians "are martyred. Many of them were fighting to defend and protect the villages and families."

Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana of CAPNI, the Christian Aid Program in Iraq, said that in the Christian village of Tel Hormizd: 14 fighters, two of whom were women, were killed. One of the women may have been beheaded, he said. Another 13 fighters from different villages were captured.

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"ISIS now controls 10 Christian villages," observatory head Rami Abdulrahman said by phone, using an acronym for Islamic State. "They have taken the people they kidnapped away from the villages and into their territory," he said.

http://www.aleteia.org/en/world/article/isis-has-begun-executing-captured-christians-according-to-report-5817041432870912

Edited February 27, 2015 by ExExpat

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looks like you need to work on your breathing at the range.

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looks like you need to work on your breathing at the range.

no dear, that was directed to ol hip shooter exexpat.

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looks like you need to work on your breathing at the range.

Just use bigger bullets.

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Just use bigger bullets.

Or stand much closer.

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More Assyrian Christians captured as ISIS attacks villages in Syria

More than 350 civilians from 12 villages had been abducted; thousands flee

The reports are like something out of a distant era of ancient conquests: entire villages emptied, with hundreds taken prisoner, others kept as slaves; the destruction of irreplaceable works of art; a tax on religious minorities, payable in gold.

A rampage reminiscent of Tamerlane or Genghis Khan, perhaps, but in reality, according to reports by residents, activist groups and the assailants themselves, a description of the modus operandi of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate this week. The militants have prosecuted a relentless campaign in Iraq and Syria against what have historically been religiously and ethnically diverse areas with traces of civilizations dating to ancient Mesopotamia.

The latest to face the militants’ onslaught are the Assyrian Christians of northeastern Syria, one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, some speaking a modern version of Aramaic, the language of Jesus.

Assyrian leaders have counted 287 people taken captive, including 30 children and several dozen women, along with civilian men and fighters from Christian militias, said Dawoud Dawoud, an Assyrian political activist who had just toured the area, in the vicinity of the Syrian city of Qamishli. Thirty villages had been emptied, he said.

The Syriac Military Council, a local Assyrian militia, put the number of those taken at 350.

http://thechristians.com/?q=content/more-assyrian-christians-captured-isis-attacks-villages-syria

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why you succumb and start acting like a pansie-boy? I don't get it.

please, not do that again. OK?

buried in the news blurbs quoted on this page,

is a bit about the Christian Militias.

Man - it would be mondo cool if'n the evangelicals here in Houston started raising monies and sending 20-somethings-males over for duty.

Edited February 27, 2015 by Darnell

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why you succumb and start acting like a pansie-boy? I don't get it.

please, not do that again. OK?

I'll try, but it's entertaining watching dem euro cadillac better-en you folk tossen chunks on the fire.