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Posted: 04 Aug 2014 11:58 AM PDT
The Islamic State continues to release photographs of the execution of Iraq soldiers and security personnel. Yesterday, the Islamic State's Anbar Division released seven photographs documenting the beheading of three Iraq soldiers. While the beheadings could not be confirmed, the photographs released by the Islamic State are similar to images of other executions that have been confirmed.
The executions of the three captured soldiers are said to have taken place in the Al Sejar area just northeast of Fallujah, the second-largest city in Anbar province. Fallujah has been under the control of the Islamic State since the beginning of this year.
The soldiers are shown lying face first on the ground with their hands cuffed behind their backs. Each is shown holding up some form of identification. The Islamic State refers to the soldiers as "Safavids," or Iranians, as these soldiers fight for the Shia-led Iraqi government.
A different Islamic State fighter beheads each soldier, using a machete or a Bowie knife. The head of one of the soldiers is placed on his own back.
Only one of the photographs is reproduced, below. The rest of the photographs are extremely graphic and disturbing, and can be viewed here.
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Τρίτη 5 Αυγούστου 2014
Islamic State beheads 'Safavid' soldiers in Anbar Posted: 04 Aug 2014 11:58 AM PDT
Iraqi Yazidis caught in Islamic State advance
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 5 Αυγ 2014
The UN says thousands of people fleeing Islamic State fighters in Iraq are in urgent need of food, water and shelter. Many have fled to the Kurdish north. Now the Kurds have to protect them as well as their territory. Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall reports.
'Bohemian Bestival': Camp Bestival 2014 Grand Finale - Official Multi Ca...
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 5 Αυγ 2014
‘Bohemian Bestival’: Camp Bestival 2014 Grand Finale fireworks & pyrotechnics display on Lulworth Castle.
Two Tigers Fireworks & Angelfire Pyrotechnics produced the Grand Finale of Camp Bestival 2014 at Lulworth Castle, Dorset, UK.
Filmed and edited by Jerry Morgan from the Groovy Movie Picture House, using only solar electricity generated on location at Lulworth Castle.
Two Tigers Fireworks & Angelfire Pyrotechnics produced the Grand Finale of Camp Bestival 2014 at Lulworth Castle, Dorset, UK.
Filmed and edited by Jerry Morgan from the Groovy Movie Picture House, using only solar electricity generated on location at Lulworth Castle.
Δευτέρα 4 Αυγούστου 2014
Greece Returns as Tourist Hotspot
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 4 Αυγ 2014
Debt, recession, social unrest? Sun, sea and historic sights lure tourists back to Greece in their droves. It's expecting a record year for visitor numbers in 2014, giving its economy a much-needed lift as it inches back to recovery.
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Historic landmarks and glorious sunshine have long made it a favorite holiday destination.
That is, until Greece's crippling debt, worries about social unrest and its possible exit from the euro zone, kept holiday makers away.
Now as the country emerges from the crisis, visitors numbers are set to soar.
Andreas Andreadis is from the Greek Tourism Confederation.
[Andreas Andreadis, President of the Greek Tourism Confederation]:
"Greece is in fashion again, that is good news. I hear from everywhere, 'we go to Greece this year,' this is really a very good thing for the country and its economy."
Tourism is Greece's biggest cash earner.
It accounts for a fifth of GDP and employs one in five Greeks.
During the slump, hotel owners and restauranteurs have had to slash prices to lure visitors.
It seems to be working.
[David Abramovic, Tourist from Los Angeles, California]:
"I think the hotels are decent value and the restaurants are an excellent value."
[Peter Maijderwijk, Tourist from the Netherlands]:
"It was not a good thing to see a crisis going on in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. Yes there were a lot of monetary reasons but this is nothing to do with the people or the country itself."
This year Greece is expected to smash all records with 19 million arrivals.
That's over a million more than it was pre-crisis and worth 13 billion euros to the economy.
Many of them will visit the capital Athens.
[Andreas Andreadis, President of the Greek Tourism Confederation]:
"This is very good news for a city that is really beautiful but suffered a lot because of the demonstrations, because of the problems, you know, with security and so on, the bad image of the city."
After six consecutive years of recession, the Greek economy is set to grow again at 0.6 percent.
It's been bailed out twice by the IMF and EU with loans of around 240 billion euros.
It's making good progress.
The influx of returning visitors should create 50,000 new jobs.
It won't solve the country's high unemployment altogether - where 27 percent are out of work and youth unemployment is more than than double that.
But it's a step in the right direction to once again becoming the jewel in the mediterranean crown.
Full Story:
Historic landmarks and glorious sunshine have long made it a favorite holiday destination.
That is, until Greece's crippling debt, worries about social unrest and its possible exit from the euro zone, kept holiday makers away.
Now as the country emerges from the crisis, visitors numbers are set to soar.
Andreas Andreadis is from the Greek Tourism Confederation.
[Andreas Andreadis, President of the Greek Tourism Confederation]:
"Greece is in fashion again, that is good news. I hear from everywhere, 'we go to Greece this year,' this is really a very good thing for the country and its economy."
Tourism is Greece's biggest cash earner.
It accounts for a fifth of GDP and employs one in five Greeks.
During the slump, hotel owners and restauranteurs have had to slash prices to lure visitors.
It seems to be working.
[David Abramovic, Tourist from Los Angeles, California]:
"I think the hotels are decent value and the restaurants are an excellent value."
[Peter Maijderwijk, Tourist from the Netherlands]:
"It was not a good thing to see a crisis going on in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. Yes there were a lot of monetary reasons but this is nothing to do with the people or the country itself."
This year Greece is expected to smash all records with 19 million arrivals.
That's over a million more than it was pre-crisis and worth 13 billion euros to the economy.
Many of them will visit the capital Athens.
[Andreas Andreadis, President of the Greek Tourism Confederation]:
"This is very good news for a city that is really beautiful but suffered a lot because of the demonstrations, because of the problems, you know, with security and so on, the bad image of the city."
After six consecutive years of recession, the Greek economy is set to grow again at 0.6 percent.
It's been bailed out twice by the IMF and EU with loans of around 240 billion euros.
It's making good progress.
The influx of returning visitors should create 50,000 new jobs.
It won't solve the country's high unemployment altogether - where 27 percent are out of work and youth unemployment is more than than double that.
But it's a step in the right direction to once again becoming the jewel in the mediterranean crown.
Digger overturns Jerusalem bus in suspected attack
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 4 Αυγ 2014
A man rammed the front end of a massive construction excavator into an Israeli bus overturning the vehicle and killing a pedestrian before he was shot and killed by a police officer
A construction vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian and overturned a bus on a main street in Jerusalem on Monday in what police suspect was a Palestinian attack, which ended when policemen shot dead the driver of the yellow digger.
There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city.
Tensions have been high in Jerusalem for the past month over the Gaza war and the killing of a Palestinian teen in the city by alleged Israeli assailants out to avenge the deaths of three abducted Israeli youngsters in the occupied West Bank.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "police are looking at the incident as a terror attack". He said a police officer shot dead the excavator's driver.
In two incidents in July 2008, construction vehicles driven by Palestinians hit Israeli buses and pedestrians, killing a total of three people. In both incidents, the attackers were shot dead.
Three years later, an Arab truck driver drove into cars and pedestrians in Tel Aviv, killing one person, in what police said was a deliberate attack. The driver was apprehended and sentenced to life imprisonment.
A construction vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian and overturned a bus on a main street in Jerusalem on Monday in what police suspect was a Palestinian attack, which ended when policemen shot dead the driver of the yellow digger.
There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city.
Tensions have been high in Jerusalem for the past month over the Gaza war and the killing of a Palestinian teen in the city by alleged Israeli assailants out to avenge the deaths of three abducted Israeli youngsters in the occupied West Bank.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "police are looking at the incident as a terror attack". He said a police officer shot dead the excavator's driver.
In two incidents in July 2008, construction vehicles driven by Palestinians hit Israeli buses and pedestrians, killing a total of three people. In both incidents, the attackers were shot dead.
Three years later, an Arab truck driver drove into cars and pedestrians in Tel Aviv, killing one person, in what police said was a deliberate attack. The driver was apprehended and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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