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IRAQI POLICE FORCES said they found a mass grave at the agricultural college in an area that was recaptured from ISIS on Monday.
The grave was found in Hamam al-Alil area, about 14 kilometres from the southern outskirts of Mosul, the last IS-held Iraqi city.
“Federal police found a mass grave west of Hamam al-Alil in the agricultural college,” the police said in a statement.
They released a series of photos showing security personnel and other people in civilian clothes in an open area of disturbed, uneven earth littered with trash.
Some of the images showed indistinct shapes that may be bodies buried in shallow graves among the garbage.
The Joint Operations Command (JOC) said that “Iraqi forces found… 100 bodies of citizens with their heads cut off” at the college, and that specialised teams would investigate.
It was unclear how the JOC arrived at that figure or determined that they had all been beheaded given that the bodies at the site appear to still be buried.
Iraqi officials have previously estimated the number of victims in mass graves before they have been excavated and counted.
ISIS pushed back
IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, declaring a cross-border “caliphate” that also included territory in Syria.
Its rule has been marked by repeated atrocities including mass beheadings and other executions that it has documented in photos and videos lauding the violence that its supporters share online.
Iraqi forces have since regained much of the territory that IS seized, and have uncovered a series of mass graves and massacre sites as they have pushed the jihadists back.
Iraqi forces are now fighting to retake Mosul from IS, and Hamam al-Alil was one of the last major obstacles between them and the southern outskirts of the city.
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Its ok, Denzel Washington comes good in the end and owns up.
“In his verdict, the judge highlighted the co-pilot’s high level of intoxication, the number of people whose lives would have been endangered if he had flown the plane, the length of the flight, and the fact that he must have known that his colleagues had also been drinking”
Then he sentenced him to 6 months in jail?
It’s Norway, They gave Anders Breivik 20 years and a 5 stars room with internet connection and a Playstation
Six months is a disgrace
You’d wonder how common this is,only for the tip off no one would’ve ever known
Must of been an irish judge with such a ridiculous sentence
*have
Surely the two bottles were shared amongst all of them? Otherwise 2 bottles on his own would put him waaaaay over than 7 times the legal limit for airline staff.
I would have thought two bottles of whiskey would be a fatal dose.
Maybe they were miniatures.
He was *seven* times the limit – and it was *the next day*!! You think a couple of miniatures would do that?!
The legal limit for airline staff is lower than the statutory one (if I remember correctly) so a couple of mini bottles could have done that.
probably thought he was going to get the ride off those other two.
Well here he would have got a twelve month ban, but you can have you licence back in six. Sure isn’t it the same as having a few pints down the local and driving home!.
Only if you can fit 100 people in your car and your car can travel at 500mph through the air….
Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
Very good padraig, that made me laugh on a crappy tues afternoon
Is there a Norwegian version of SIPTU to appeal this ridiculously harsh decision?
Sure planes these days practically fly themselves. Whats the problem ?
Reminds me of a joke …
3 Padraigs, one English, one Scot and one Irish, all were at AA. Padraig from England says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 4 shorts with breakfast, another 4 for elevenses, go for a few beers at lunch, I have a hip flask that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have a few more beers with me dinner. Then the wife and myself drink a few bottles of wine in front of the telly and then I’ll have half a bottle of whiskey for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink twice that”.
Padraig from Scotland stands up and says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 6 shorts with breakfast, another 8 for elevenses, go for 6 beers at lunch, I have two hip flasks that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have another 6 beers with me dinner. Then the girlfriend myself drink probably 4 bottles of wine between us in the evening and then I’ll have a naggin of vodka for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink three times that”.
Padraig from Ireland stands up and says, “sure these two boys can’t drink at all..”
There is a legal limit for pilots?
There is. It’s very low (lower than the limit for drivers) but it exists.
The Pilot probably just bottled it!
So you’re saying there are drunk Latvian stewardesses on airBaltic flights? Giggity!
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