Islamic State fighters smash historic statues in Iraq
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Thursday 26 February 2015 Iraq , World
Islamic State fighters smash historic statues in Iraq
Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum International Editor
It looks terrible - vandals of the Islamic State attacking ancient Assyrian statues with sledge-hammers.
Nineveh, on the site of modern day Mosul, was the capital of the Assyrian empire that lasted nineteen centuries from 2500 to 605 BC.[/quote]
[url]http://www.channel4.com/news/islamic-state-fighters-smash-historic-statues-in-iraq[/url]
video in link
ISIS biggest assholes of 2015
This was to be expected, the Taliban did the same in the 90s.
As a historian hearing about acts like this hurts my soul. Luckily these are just replicas, the originals have been taken to Baghdad for safe-keeping.
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Edit: Oh you put the link in.
I even searched, what the hell
[QUOTE=Judas;47221383]I even searched, what the hell[/QUOTE]
Probably because some people now insist on calling them [I]Daesh[/I] in some ridiculous political correctness song and dance.
The statues are plaster, nothing of value has been lost.
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