{"id":141506,"date":"2017-12-23T02:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T07:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141506"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:07:12","slug":"at-mosul-morgue-staff-bore-witness-to-islamic-state-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/23\/at-mosul-morgue-staff-bore-witness-to-islamic-state-horrors\/","title":{"rendered":"At Mosul morgue, staff bore witness to Islamic State horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141507\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Ffgfhfhg_23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141507\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Ffgfhfhg_23.jpg\" alt=\"City of Mosul (Photo By Omar Siddeeq Yousif - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"639\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Ffgfhfhg_23.jpg 639w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/640px-Ffgfhfhg_23-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of Mosul (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=64626595\">Photo By Omar Siddeeq Yousif &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOSUL, Iraq &#8212; The staff at the morgue in the northern Iraqi of Mosul witnessed firsthand the worst that the Islamic State group inflicted on the people of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors and medics dealt with the victims killed by the militants &#8212; men thrown off of buildings on suspicion of homosexuality, women stoned to death for alleged adultery, people shot or decapitated for spying or blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they made gestures to honour the dead. They sneaked some bodies of IS victims to their families for burial, rescuing them from disappearing into mass graves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy xifaxan online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/xifaxan.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/xifaxan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> They secretly sewed the heads on the bodies of some of those decapitated.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy strattera online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/strattera.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/strattera.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a lot of pressure,\u201d said chief medical assistant Raid Jassim. \u201cI always expected them to come at any moment and kill or behead us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy topamax online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/topamax.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/topamax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSUL, Iraq &#8212; The staff at the morgue in the northern Iraqi of Mosul witnessed firsthand the worst that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[1842,9782,5074,40195],"class_list":["post-141506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-iraq","tag-islamic-state","tag-mosul","tag-raid-jassim","mauthors-qassim-abdul-zahra","mauthors-maggie-michael","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283579,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141506\/revisions\/283579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}