The Al Qaeda splinter group that has seized large swaths of western and northern Iraq summarily executed dozens of Iraqi soldiers in its attack on a city in a central Iraqi province, media activists associated with the group reported Sunday.
Supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS -- notorious for its use of brutal tactics that include beheadings, crucifixions, and amputation of limbs -- flooded social media with scores of gruesome images purporting to show ISIS fighters rounding up and killing fleeing soldiers. The killings 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.
Sunni Muslim 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 justice for those who abandoned their posts.
The online images purportedly document the attack on Tikrit city, beginning with ISIS fighters atop pickups and sedans raising their black banner at staging points outside Tikrit. Others show army Humvees 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 the 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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