The US just received word that reports that ISIS burned 40 people have just been confirmed by an Iraqi official. Anbar provincial council chairman Sabah Karkhout says we was just advised by his field commanders that ISIS militants killed at least 40 police officers and tribesmen and most of them were burned to death. It is still unclear whether these people were actually burned to death or if they were killed then burned the bodies. The bodies were reportedly burned right outside of a town ISIS captured last week that is just 9 miles away from an airbase where 400 U.S troops are training Iraq troops to fight against ISIS.
This last killing of ISIS is a little bit different from the rest of the killings. For one, they didn’t take videos and send them out like they usually do. Sending videos through mass media was their main tactic of terrorism and it seems unusual that they wouldn’t do something like that again. It seems like nobody is sure that ISIS actually burned the 40 bodies, but it is a high chance that they did. It also seems unusual that ISIS would take action like this so close to an airbase where they can be attacked within minutes.
Brad Munson
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