{"id":266200,"date":"2017-05-24T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=266200"},"modified":"2020-11-14T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:10:26","slug":"torture-rape-executions-iraq-to-investigate-reported-atrocities-of-mosul-liberators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/torture-rape-executions-iraq-to-investigate-reported-atrocities-of-mosul-liberators\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture, rape, executions: Iraq to investigate reported atrocities of Mosul liberators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>How to create terrorists!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Interior Ministry said that it will investigate a report by Der Spiegel magazine, which accused the country\u2019s elite US-backed military unit of murder, torture and rape of civilians during the operation against Islamic State terrorists in Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interior minister ordered investigators to conduct a clear and fair inquiry&#8230; (and) to take legal measures against those who are negligent if the investigation proves so,\u201d\u00a0the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Der Spiegel published an article titled\u00a0\u201cNot Heroes, but Monsters,\u201d\u00a0by freelance Iraqi photographer and filmmaker Ali Arkady, who accompanied the Interior Ministry&#8217;s elite Emergency Response Division (ERD) unit throughout the operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL).<\/p>\n<p>In the article, which was in stark contrast to Western reporting from Mosul, the photographer claimed that the ERD persecuted numerous civilians on\u00a0\u201cvague\u201d\u00a0suspicions of links with IS.<\/p>\n<p>The piece included photos by Arkady of people hanging from the ceiling with their arms tied up behind their backs, as well as other torture scenes.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were picked up during night raids, which included rape and looting, and taken to villages outside Mosul where there were no foreign journalists, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/389614-torture-rape-executions-iraq-mosul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/389614-torture-rape-executions-iraq-mosul\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: How to create terrorists! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":283220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}