U.S.-backed Iraqi forces retake town of Amerli

[Bee York]

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Backed by U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen Sunday broke a nearly three-month siege imposed by Islamic State extremists on the northern town of Amerli, residents said Sunday.
Iraqi news media and human rights activists said that Iraqi soldiers entered the farming town about 100 miles north of Baghdad a day after launching a ground operation aimed at freeing the 15,000 mainly Shiite Turkmen residents, who had been encircled by the Sunni Arab militants since June and were running out of food, water and essential medicines.
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[url]http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraqi-forces-break-isis-siege-20140831-story.html[/url]

[Download]

It's people like IS who are making me seriously reconsider my stance on the death penalty.

[A B.A. Survivor]

Is it just me, or is the whole "ISIS is evil, the must die!" mantra getting old? Every thread about the situation has a bunch of posts saying the same thing.

[Stolid]

ISIS is evil, the must die!

[OvB]

ISIS got beat to shitte. I hope they don't come back sunni.

[Swilly]

[QUOTE=OvB;45853421]ISIS got beat to shitte. I hope they don't come back sunni.[/QUOTE]

Eehhh, trying to hard.

[nouvellehalf]

God bless Amerli.

[l33tkill]

Warheads on foreheads motherfuckers.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;45853245]Is it just me, or is the whole "ISIS is evil, the must die!" mantra getting old?[/QUOTE]

No

[TheCumScoundrel]

Grind em to Gristle boys.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Medevila;45853603]I hope some unity is brought to the Iraqi government as a result of this conflict[/QUOTE]

Hopefully said unity will last after ISIS is destroyed.

[MillySoose]

[QUOTE=OvB;45853421]ISIS got beat to shitte. I hope they don't come back sunni.[/QUOTE]
To be honest, them coming back Shiite would be all around better than Sunni.

[Hamaflavian]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45853855]Hopefully said unity will last after ISIS is destroyed.[/QUOTE]

It has no chance of lasting if nobody cares about Iraq after ISIS is gone. ISIS will be destroyed, sooner or later, but it's not going to mean anything if the rest of the world just sinks back into their usual state of indifference once there's no longer a clearly defined big bad whose ass we can kick. Otherwise, the Iraqi government will use this war to consolidate their power in the Shi'ite majority while neglecting and cracking down on the Sunnis even harder--who will, more than ever, need the government's help to recover from the ravages of war.