Islamic State Has Bombed the Historic Walls of Nineveh in Iraq

Islamic State Has Bombed the Historic Walls of Nineveh in Iraq

By Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST and ASSIST News Service

MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS – January 28, 2015) -- Jihadists have resumed their bombings against the historic sites in Nineveh and destroyed remains of the ancient wall of Mosul, specialized sources reported today; while local politicians accused the United States of hampering the counterterrorist fight.

According to a story released by the Assyrian International News Agency (www.aina.org), an historian living in Mosul, the second largest in Iraq, told the publication Shafaq News that militants of the Islamic State (IS) destroyed on Tuesday night much of the historic city wall located on Tahrir neighborhood on the left coast
of Mosul.

Using a great amount of explosives, “Takfirists” (Sunni Islamic terrorists) blew pieces of the wall considered the most important historical monument of the Iraqi province and the whole region, dating back to the civilization of the Assyrian kings in the eighth century BC.

Since the beginning of the attacks in June 2014, Jihadists of DAESH, the Arabic acronym of IS (Islamic State), have reduced to ruins numerous archaeological, historical and religious sites of great historical value in Mosul.

An operation launched just launched in the area of Al-Rashidiyah resulted in the abduction of people accused of collaborating with Kurdish Peshmerga military forces, after the Iraqi Deputy Hakim Al-Zamili had said that the army and police have informants within the aforementioned city.

“Meanwhile, the leader of the Shiite political party in Iraq Assaib Ahl Al-Haq, Qais Al-Khazali, accused the United States of hindering the release of areas occupied by the Islamists, and that international coalition aircrafts launched aids that have delayed the military actions of the Army,” said a spokesperson for AINA.

According to Al-Khazali, “DAESH terrorists could be wiped out in a few months, but the US government is trying to delay this process”.

He added that there are testimonies and evidence of the support of US planes to Takfirists in the city of Muqdadiyah, which delayed its release.

The politician predicted that the next fight will be in the northern province of Salaheddin to avenge the “martyrs” of Spyker airbase, near Tikrit, where last year about a thousand 700 Shiites of the Army and hundreds of civilians were killed by fundamentalists.

Note: Nineveh is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was the largest city in the world for some fifty years until, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria itself, it was sacked by an unusual coalition of former subject peoples, the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Chaldeans, Scythians and Cimmerians in 612 BC. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.

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