The Al Qaeda splinter group that has seized large swaths of western and northern Iraq posted gruesome photos online Sunday purporting to show the summary executions of dozens of captive Iraqi soldiers in its attack on a city in central Iraq.
The Iraqi military's chief spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim Moussawi, told the Associated Press that the photos were believed to be authentic, and confirmed the killings of some soldiers who were taken prisoner by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
Meanwhile, six people were killed Sunday when a recruitment center in central Iraq for volunteer fighters was hit by mortar rounds, Agence France-Presse reported. Civilians have been flocking to take up arms to battle ISIS, a Sunni extremist group notorious for its use of brutal tactics that include beheadings, crucifixions and amputation of limbs.
The killings of captive Iraqi soldiers were said to have taken place in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin and the environs of Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, about 90 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad.
ISIS fighters last week launched a blitz in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and an important oil hub, that saw Iraqi army and police units shed their uniforms and literally run for their lives. The government, stunned by the collapse of its forces, vowed swift and harsh punishment for those who abandoned their posts.
The online images purportedly document the attack on Tikrit city, beginning with ISIS fighters atop pickup trucks and sedans raising their black banner at staging points outside Tikrit. Others show army Humees and heavy trucks, originally provided by the U.S. to Iraq's military, commandeered by the fighters.
More disturbing photos follow, depicting rows of men lying on the ground in shallow trenches as an ISIS fighter sprays them with gunfire. A caption boasts of "killing of the herds … that have escaped from the military bases." Other images show what are described as captured soldiers in trucks to be "taken to their deaths" as "the lions of ISIS race to devour their prey."
Many Sunnis view the Iraqi army as a force largely driven by the sectarian dictates of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, a Shiite hardliner whose exclusionary policies have bred deep resentment among the Sunni population. Shiites are the majority in Iraq but Sunnis are a large minority and previously held most posts of power.
Bulos is a special correspondent.
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