[h=1]U.S. bombs Islamic State after Obama call to prevent Iraq 'genocide'[/h]U.S. warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq's Kurdish capital on Friday after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent "genocide".
Obama in a late night television address to the nation on Thursday . . . "Well, today America is coming to help."
Our LEADER .. Gettin'-it-Done !
(CNN) – Former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell,
once a rising star in the Republican Party who was considered potential presidential material,was:
indicted along with his wife on Tuesday on Federal Charges.
I don't follow politics much , , no use for the nonsense - but today's News Headlines (Reps v Dems) , says it all.
Jeez . .No wonder , No Republican anywhere , could beat him in an election.
Obama in a late night television address to the nation on Thursday . . . "Well, today America is coming to help."
Our LEADER .. Gettin'-it-Done !
(CNN) – Former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell,
once a rising star in the Republican Party who was considered potential presidential material,was:
indicted along with his wife on Tuesday on Federal Charges.
I don't follow politics much , , no use for the nonsense - but today's News Headlines (Reps v Dems) , says it all.
Jeez . .No wonder , No Republican anywhere , could beat him in an election.
[h=1]Lined up and executed, their severed heads put on display as a warning to others: Horrific new photographs of ISIS atrocities[/h]
Up to 500 prisoners from the minority Yazidi faith are said to have been killed by ‘death squads’ of jihadi gunmen in recent days.
Some 40 Yazidi children are reported to be among the dead, after being driven from their homes by the brutal Islamist militant offensive in northern Iraq.
Chilling images of the victims have now emerged, some released by the group’s expertly managed propaganda machine.
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Prisoners: Members of the Sunni Shaitat tribe are rounded up and marched to their deaths in Syria by fighters from ISIS in a series of horrific images posted online by the jihadist group
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Ruthless: Bent double and barefooted, with their hands are bound behind their backs with rope, the prisoners are marched to the execution site in the desert near Deir ez Zor in Syra
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- Sunni tribesmen marched into desert, made to kneel and shot in the head
- Tribe made deal with ISIS to be left alone but agreement collapsed
- Shocking close-up photos of splattered brains and severed heads released
- 'Punishment for those who fight Allah and his Messenger is to crucify or cut off hands and feet'
Up to 500 prisoners from the minority Yazidi faith are said to have been killed by ‘death squads’ of jihadi gunmen in recent days.
Some 40 Yazidi children are reported to be among the dead, after being driven from their homes by the brutal Islamist militant offensive in northern Iraq.
Chilling images of the victims have now emerged, some released by the group’s expertly managed propaganda machine.
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Prisoners: Members of the Sunni Shaitat tribe are rounded up and marched to their deaths in Syria by fighters from ISIS in a series of horrific images posted online by the jihadist group
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Ruthless: Bent double and barefooted, with their hands are bound behind their backs with rope, the prisoners are marched to the execution site in the desert near Deir ez Zor in Syra
Advancing Islamic State fighters have filmed themselves massacring prisoners, some of whom have been crucified or beheaded. Pictures show armed fighters, appearing to laugh over slumped bodies of dead civilians, who had been lined up and shot in the head and back.
Some images, posted online, show militants posing next to dead Yazidi men.
One horrific set of photographs, which emerged yesterday, shows the militants rounding up and executing tribesmen. The prisoners were marched into the desert and made to kneel on the dusty ground, before being systematically shot in the head.
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Crimes against humanity: The captives are then lined up and ordered to kneel down on the dusty ground
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Barbaric: Around 20 ISIS fighters stand behind the line of men and the squad of jihadists begin to murder the prisoners
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A couple of jihadists approach the dead prisoners and finish off any survivors from point-blank range
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Sick: A jihadist appears to be smiling as he holds a terrified man by his hair and begins to slice through his neck with a hunting knife
Some images, posted online, show militants posing next to dead Yazidi men.
One horrific set of photographs, which emerged yesterday, shows the militants rounding up and executing tribesmen. The prisoners were marched into the desert and made to kneel on the dusty ground, before being systematically shot in the head.
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Crimes against humanity: The captives are then lined up and ordered to kneel down on the dusty ground
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Barbaric: Around 20 ISIS fighters stand behind the line of men and the squad of jihadists begin to murder the prisoners
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A couple of jihadists approach the dead prisoners and finish off any survivors from point-blank range
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Sick: A jihadist appears to be smiling as he holds a terrified man by his hair and begins to slice through his neck with a hunting knife
‘The punishment of those who fight Allah and his Messenger and spread mischief on earth is to kill or crucify or cut off their hands and feet,’ the militant group declared.
There were also reports of children being beheaded, crucifixions and amputations. One said trapped Yazidi women were being raped while their husbands were slaughtered.
As each town is taken, anyone opposing the Islamic State is either killed or given the option to convert to Islam and pay a fine. Others try to abandon their homes and flee. Six weeks ago, the Islamic State executed at least 160 prisoners in just four days in the northern city of Tikrit, publishing pictures of men forced to lie with their hands tied behind their backs while they were shot.
A final set of images showed the victims’ bodies piled up.
The brutal tactics of the group, which broke from Al Qaeda, are the work of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who joined the insurgency that erupted in Iraq soon after the 2003 US-led invasion.
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Brutal: Other captives are shot before being tied to makeshift crucifixes
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A crowd of local men watch from
There were also reports of children being beheaded, crucifixions and amputations. One said trapped Yazidi women were being raped while their husbands were slaughtered.
As each town is taken, anyone opposing the Islamic State is either killed or given the option to convert to Islam and pay a fine. Others try to abandon their homes and flee. Six weeks ago, the Islamic State executed at least 160 prisoners in just four days in the northern city of Tikrit, publishing pictures of men forced to lie with their hands tied behind their backs while they were shot.
A final set of images showed the victims’ bodies piled up.
The brutal tactics of the group, which broke from Al Qaeda, are the work of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who joined the insurgency that erupted in Iraq soon after the 2003 US-led invasion.
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Brutal: Other captives are shot before being tied to makeshift crucifixes
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A crowd of local men watch from
Two F/A18 fighter jets were dispatched from the USS George H. W. Bush to unleash 500lb laser-guided bombs on a group of militants outside the northern city, which also houses an American consulate.
The Pentagon said its warplanes hit Islamic State artillery positions which had been firing on Kurdish forces defending the city.
American jets also attacked a militants' convoy, while an unmanned drone hit a terrorist mortar position.
Last night images emerged of smoke rising from air strikes targeting fanatics near the Khazer checkpoint outside Irbil.
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Bombing raids: F/A18 Super Hornets were launched yesterday from the Persian Gulf to bomb ISIS targets
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Joining in? British officials have said it is not beyond the realms of possibility that they could join in attacks on ISIS. Pictured is a Eurofighter, the RAF's main attack plane
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Aircraft carrier: The USS George HW Bush was the base from which the jets flew, carrying their 500lbs laser-guided bombs
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Smoke rising: The sites of the U.S. fighter jet strikes are pictured above, nor far outside of Irbil
The Pentagon said its warplanes hit Islamic State artillery positions which had been firing on Kurdish forces defending the city.
American jets also attacked a militants' convoy, while an unmanned drone hit a terrorist mortar position.
Last night images emerged of smoke rising from air strikes targeting fanatics near the Khazer checkpoint outside Irbil.
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Bombing raids: F/A18 Super Hornets were launched yesterday from the Persian Gulf to bomb ISIS targets
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Joining in? British officials have said it is not beyond the realms of possibility that they could join in attacks on ISIS. Pictured is a Eurofighter, the RAF's main attack plane
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Aircraft carrier: The USS George HW Bush was the base from which the jets flew, carrying their 500lbs laser-guided bombs
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Smoke rising: The sites of the U.S. fighter jet strikes are pictured above, nor far outside of Irbil
[h=1]#AmessagefromISIStoUS: Islamist militants tweet gruesome images of dead American soldiers and vow to blow up embassies after Obama launches airstrikes[/h]
Some tweeted photos depict dead U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. marines hung from bridges in Fallujah, decapitated men, human heads on spikes, and the twin towers in flames on September 11, 2001.
'This is a message for every American citizen,' read one message sent with the hashtag. 'You are the target of every Muslim in the world wherever you are.'
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Obama's decision Friday morning to launch strikes against ISIS artillery positions set off ISIS backers and triggered online propaganda
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'We will make a barbecue party on you': Some of the threats came in broken English from accounts that mostly tweet in Arabic
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- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Militants who support the terror group ISIS tweeted threats to America on Friday after Barack Obama began airstrikes in Iraq
- Some warn of car bombs at embassies while others taunt US military personnel with death threats
- A handful of biting retorts have mocked the ham-fisted attempt to use social media as a tool of war
- Tweets coincided with first U.S. airstrikes authorized by Obama to protect American staff and relief efforts
- Food and water supplies have been airdropped to 50,000 refugees trapped on mountain
- ISIS have been accused of taking hundreds of women hostage
Some tweeted photos depict dead U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. marines hung from bridges in Fallujah, decapitated men, human heads on spikes, and the twin towers in flames on September 11, 2001.
'This is a message for every American citizen,' read one message sent with the hashtag. 'You are the target of every Muslim in the world wherever you are.'
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Obama's decision Friday morning to launch strikes against ISIS artillery positions set off ISIS backers and triggered online propaganda
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'We will make a barbecue party on you': Some of the threats came in broken English from accounts that mostly tweet in Arabic
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'US citizens will be a target for ISIS,' another reads, 'because of American airstrike on Iraq.'
Another warned that ISIS is 'ready to cut your heads Dear Americans O sons of bitches. Come quickly.'
That tweet also carried a second hashtag: #WarOnWhites. Others featured taunting captions to pictures of soldiers previously wounded or killed in Iraq, reminding Us commanders what happened last time there was a full scale invasion.
The tweets came on the day the U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against ISIS, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Two airdrops of food and water supplies were also flown in to about 50,000 refugees who took shelter on a barren mountain after being ordered by ISIS to convert or face death.
The extremists have taken hundreds of women from a religious minority captive, according to an Iraqi official, and thousands of other civilians have in fear.
The latest Twitter blitz in an extension of ISIS's propaganda push on social media that the terror group has used throughout their campaign to spread fear and intimidate the world.
Over the last few months the medium has been used to post graphic pictures of beheadings, mass killings and boastful messages from fighters who have come from Western countries.
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Holy war: 'You are the target of every Muslim in the world wherever you are'
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Casualties memorialized online: ISIS has turned to Twitter as a propaganda tool
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Embassy threats: A State Department official told MailOnline that a single bombing could change global perceptions and win President Obama new levels of scorn for launching airstrikes
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Another warned that ISIS is 'ready to cut your heads Dear Americans O sons of bitches. Come quickly.'
That tweet also carried a second hashtag: #WarOnWhites. Others featured taunting captions to pictures of soldiers previously wounded or killed in Iraq, reminding Us commanders what happened last time there was a full scale invasion.
The tweets came on the day the U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against ISIS, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Two airdrops of food and water supplies were also flown in to about 50,000 refugees who took shelter on a barren mountain after being ordered by ISIS to convert or face death.
The extremists have taken hundreds of women from a religious minority captive, according to an Iraqi official, and thousands of other civilians have in fear.
The latest Twitter blitz in an extension of ISIS's propaganda push on social media that the terror group has used throughout their campaign to spread fear and intimidate the world.
Over the last few months the medium has been used to post graphic pictures of beheadings, mass killings and boastful messages from fighters who have come from Western countries.
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Holy war: 'You are the target of every Muslim in the world wherever you are'
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Casualties memorialized online: ISIS has turned to Twitter as a propaganda tool
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Embassy threats: A State Department official told MailOnline that a single bombing could change global perceptions and win President Obama new levels of scorn for launching airstrikes
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The new messages highlight the possible consequences of President Barack Obama's decision to authorize military airstrikes against the Islamist group, which are partially armed with munitions left behind when he pulled American troops out of Iraq at the end of 2011.
'All it would take is one attack on a diplomatic facility to rally more online strutting,' a State Department official told MailOnline on condition of anonymity, 'and lots of people will blame the president for antagonizing people who already want to kill Americans.'
But it is yet to be seen how powerful ISIS is to carry out terror outrages beyond the territories under its control.
Obama ran for office in part on a platform of ending America's armed conflicts in the Middle East; Friday morning's airstrikes marked his first openly declared hostilities in the region – in this case, against a self-declared but unrecognized 'Islamic state.'
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Gone in a cloud of smoke: A dust cloud rises where the first U.S. bomb struck ISIS artillery being towed by a truck outside Erbil
The U.S. government will likely brush off the tweeted messages even though they could prove embarrassing to the Obama administration.
The official said: 'No one in the U.S. with any social media savvy takes this kind of posturing seriously, but in some parts of the world it will have an effect.'
Indeed, a relative handful of Americans fired back online at the Islamist tweeters, mocking them for turning a life-or-death fight into a matter of bits and bytes.
'All the bloody images, tough words and pics of knuckle draggers with bushy beards are not scary,' one California man tweeted. 'Just pitiful.'
After ISIS cheerleaders sent a tweet threatening to take over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, another user likened the promise to a lockdown incident on Friday caused by a small child who wriggled through the White House's outer perimeter fence.
'Threatening to enter white house?' he asked. 'How? Like this toddler?'
The same man, pretending to be an ISIS radical, joked that 'we will raise our hands when your unmanned drones come. Until then please bear with our threat tweets. Thank you.'
But ISIS's taunting kept coming, hitting the 10,000-tweet mark by the time it was 5pm in Washington.
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Some Americans pushed back on Friday
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'These people aer SCREAMING Please make an example of me,' came a mocking reply to ISIS
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Not likely: One joking observer mocked the ISIS hashtag as a subversive project of Israeli intelligence
One, which included a poignant photo of a soldier saluting a cargo plane full of American flag-draped caskets, said Obama's military action would mean 'more and more American widows and orphans.'
Another, paired with a photo montage of dead and maimed U.S. military personnel, said only: 'We miss you in iraq US Troops
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American airstrikes began Friday, and many of America's allies backed the U.S. intervention, pledging urgent steps to assist the legions of refugees and displaced people.
Those in jeopardy included thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority whose plight - trapped on a mountaintop by the militants - prompted the U.S. to airdrop crates of food and water to them.
The extremists' 'campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear all the warning signs and hallmarks of genocide,' U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. 'For anyone who needed a wake-up call, this is it.'
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'All it would take is one attack on a diplomatic facility to rally more online strutting,' a State Department official told MailOnline on condition of anonymity, 'and lots of people will blame the president for antagonizing people who already want to kill Americans.'
But it is yet to be seen how powerful ISIS is to carry out terror outrages beyond the territories under its control.
Obama ran for office in part on a platform of ending America's armed conflicts in the Middle East; Friday morning's airstrikes marked his first openly declared hostilities in the region – in this case, against a self-declared but unrecognized 'Islamic state.'
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Gone in a cloud of smoke: A dust cloud rises where the first U.S. bomb struck ISIS artillery being towed by a truck outside Erbil
The U.S. government will likely brush off the tweeted messages even though they could prove embarrassing to the Obama administration.
The official said: 'No one in the U.S. with any social media savvy takes this kind of posturing seriously, but in some parts of the world it will have an effect.'
Indeed, a relative handful of Americans fired back online at the Islamist tweeters, mocking them for turning a life-or-death fight into a matter of bits and bytes.
'All the bloody images, tough words and pics of knuckle draggers with bushy beards are not scary,' one California man tweeted. 'Just pitiful.'
After ISIS cheerleaders sent a tweet threatening to take over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, another user likened the promise to a lockdown incident on Friday caused by a small child who wriggled through the White House's outer perimeter fence.
'Threatening to enter white house?' he asked. 'How? Like this toddler?'
The same man, pretending to be an ISIS radical, joked that 'we will raise our hands when your unmanned drones come. Until then please bear with our threat tweets. Thank you.'
But ISIS's taunting kept coming, hitting the 10,000-tweet mark by the time it was 5pm in Washington.
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Some Americans pushed back on Friday
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'These people aer SCREAMING Please make an example of me,' came a mocking reply to ISIS
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Not likely: One joking observer mocked the ISIS hashtag as a subversive project of Israeli intelligence
One, which included a poignant photo of a soldier saluting a cargo plane full of American flag-draped caskets, said Obama's military action would mean 'more and more American widows and orphans.'
Another, paired with a photo montage of dead and maimed U.S. military personnel, said only: 'We miss you in iraq US Troops
'American airstrikes began Friday, and many of America's allies backed the U.S. intervention, pledging urgent steps to assist the legions of refugees and displaced people.
Those in jeopardy included thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority whose plight - trapped on a mountaintop by the militants - prompted the U.S. to airdrop crates of food and water to them.
The extremists' 'campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear all the warning signs and hallmarks of genocide,' U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. 'For anyone who needed a wake-up call, this is it.'
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