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Islamic State blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared 'caliphate'

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By Marius Bosch and Maher Chmaytelli

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believed to be hiding in the border area between Iraq and Syria

more likely a palace in Saudi.

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Impossible to figure out these lunatics' motivations.  Allah must be so proud of them

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Quote: "Baghdadi has left the fighting in Mosul to local commanders and is believed to be hiding in the border area between Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. and Iraqi military sources."

Surely the Russians killed him last week?

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16 June, reported here:

https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-claims-it-has-killed-is-leader-al-baghdadi#comments

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Say, wasn't fatso gonna destroy ISIS in a month with a secret plan that only he knew ?  

Well, maybe he meant next month.

Saddam Hussein has never looked so good.

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Safe to say it is a Shia mosque, so Abu Bakr would have no problem blowing it up.

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WilliB, I read that it was a seminal Sunni mosque, which is why IS chose to base itself there.

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Say, wasn't fatso gonna destroy ISIS in a month with a secret plan that only he knew ? 

Yet is ISIS not being destroyed? Let me guess, this is being done despite Trump, not because of him.

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It was happening during Obamas administration. Trump Just wants to take credit for it.

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no, obama took out the JV team.

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These types of desecrations are an assault on the basic tenets of our civilization. I felt the same watching the Taliban blow up an ancient statue of Buddha that was said be the largest of its kind, I believe, in the world.  

These houses of worship, whatever their religious persuasion, reflect the best and most enduring virtues of mankind. Their historical significance cannot be understated to the people of their respective regions and the world at large.

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These types of desecrations are an assault on the basic tenets of our civilization. I felt the same watching the Taliban blow up an ancient statue of Buddha that was said be the largest of its kind, I believe, in the world.  

Exactly my sentiments.  875 year old historical architecture and archeological treasure gone in a day because of religious extremism/fanaticism.  The daesh value nothing but death and destruction.

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