• A month after, Tikrit is a lifeless wreck: Shiite militas control territories and clash with securit
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[QUOTE]TIKRIT, Iraq—It’s been a month since the fighters from the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, were expelled from Tikrit. We went there and found a graffiti-covered ghost town ruled by opposing groups of gunmen, none of whom trust one another.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The security forces in charge of one area don’t trust those in charge of the other areas and any movement between neighborhoods needs to be coordinated by their leaders. In some cases coordination hasn’t happened and threats have been made; people here say there have even been some minor skirmishes.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/02/tikrit-after-isis-a-ghost-town-ruled-by-gunmen.html[/url]
Makes you wonder. How many villages will simply be forgotten and never rebuilt, lost to the war totally.
[QUOTE=Mabus;47653603]Makes you wonder. How many villages will simply be forgotten and never rebuilt, lost to the war totally.[/QUOTE] Also makes you wonder how many times this has happened in the past...
[QUOTE=Explosions;47653642]Also makes you wonder how many times this has happened in the past...[/QUOTE] Its an endless cycle, you wonder how many of those villages or towns could have had so many people who could have benefited humanity, but were killed or blown up by insurgents with an idiotic and stupid agenda.
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