القصور الرئاسية - تكريتالمراسل البطل احمد البديري يشرح عن المكان المفجع لتنفيذ #مجزرة -سبايكر واثار دماء ابناءنا لاتزال واضحة على حافة النهر . اللهم لايكن عندك اهون من فصيل ناقة صالحقـُلْ لي ، وموتُ العـراقـيـِّينَ ما نـَضَبا أستـَلهـِمُ الحُـزنَ ، أم أستـَلهـِمُ الغـَضَبا؟أم أسـألُ الـدَّمَ مِلْءَ الأرض ِفي وطني عـلى الشـَّوارع ِوالجـُدران ِمـا كـَتـَبــاعشر مَضَيـنَ فـَهَل جَفـَّتْ مَلابسـُهـُم أم لم تـَزَلْ يا دَمَ الأحـبابِ مُنـسـَكـبـا؟
Posted by Dalia Musa on Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Iraq minister says Tikrit Speicher1700 massacre burial sites found. (FR24).
Iraqi forces which retook Tikrit from the Islamic State group found burial sites Wednesday believed to hold victims of a June massacre in which hundreds of army cadets were executed.
The Speicher massacre -- named after the nearby base from which the mostly Shiite recruits were abducted -- stoked widespread anger against IS and helped rally support to battle the jihadists.
Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghaban told AFP that a burial site had been discovered in a freshly-retaken palace complex on the banks of the Tigris river.
He was speaking at a concrete waterfront post of Tikrit's water police building, where the wall was stained by blood that had run down into the river.
"This place reminds us of those who were unjustly killed, it reminds us of the massacre," Ghaban said, sobbing.
"They were innocent people," said the minister.
"Today the cowards were defeated ... We will hunt them down wherever they are. We will bring security and peace to all of Iraq," he said.
The site is known among fighters as "Al-Madhbah", an Arabic word for a place where slaughter is carried out.
Pictures of the executions released by the IS group showed the police building and several recruits in plainclothes being frogmarched to the waterfront, shot and pushed into the river.
Ghaban said a burial site was found a few yards (metres) away in the riverside complex of palaces that former president Saddam Hussein had built in his hometown.
"We found dozens of ID cards in a pile of waste near the site," said policeman Hussein al-Rikabi, who took AFP to the site.
He said the documents matched the names of Speicher recruits known to have been executed or who had gone missing since jihadists took over Tikrit and large parts of Iraq in June 2014.
The #Speicher1700 location
https://t.co/sKBJrC5pTd
#tikritliberation #Iraq #IS pic.twitter.com/ngAd0WyYrN
— Ahmed Shames (@AhmedUK_IQ) April 2, 2015
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis crying next to a mass grave of Speicher martyrs, inside the presidential palaces complex. #Iraq pic.twitter.com/ZR8nv4PyNj
— Haidar Sumeri (@IraqiSecurity) April 2, 2015
Warning tweet below link contains graphic images.
Iraqi forces return to site where 1700 young cadets perished in mass execution by ISIS/tribes last year #Speicher1700 pic.twitter.com/YFtFLcEqkV
— Iraqi Expat (@IraqiExpat) April 1, 2015
#Iraq; Da'ish militant "Abu Abdulmalik" arrested by Hashd. He reportedly helped carry out the Speicher massacre. pic.twitter.com/BvTFtT3xi7
— Haidar Sumeri (@IraqiSecurity) April 2, 2015