Iraq: "Islamic State Might Be Harvesting Organs to fund their operations."

Iraq: "Islamic State Might Be Harvesting Organs to fund their operations." (AP).

Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to look at allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations.

Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim told reporters that in the past few weeks, bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys or other body parts have been found in shallow mass graves.

"We have bodies. Come and examine them," he said. "It is clear they are missing certain parts."

He also said a dozen doctors have been "executed" in Mosul for refusing to participate in organ harvesting.

Alhakim briefed the council on the overall situation in Iraq and accused the Islamic State group of "crimes of genocide" in targeting certain ethnic groups.

Mladenov noted the increasing number of reports and allegations that the Islamic State group is using organ harvesting as a financing method, but he said only that "it's very clear that the tactics ISIL is using expand by the day." He used an acronym for the group. Hmmmm.....I've read such allegations before it was alleged that Turkey was the destination for the organs and that ISIS had hired doctors to perform the removal of organs, see 'Related' below.Read the full story here.

Related: Islamic State now Trafficking Human Organs from Kidnapped Captives.