Friday, March 29, AD 2024 10:36am

Hogs of War

 

I love the irony:

 

Three Islamic State fighters were mauled to death by a pack of wild boar, reports U.K.’s  The Times. Another 5 militants were also injured in the attack.

The men were said to be taking cover in a field as they set up an ambush for local tribesmen, local leaders said.

“It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby cornfields,” Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of anti-ISIS forces, told the Times. “The area is dense with reeds, which are good for hiding in.”

The incident occurred after Islamic State fighters executed 25 people in the town of Hawija, one of three Islamic State complete-control strongholds in Iraq. The executions were ordered after several people tried to escape the town, according to local leaders. 

 

Go here to read the rest.  As the Bard said:

And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the hogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial

 

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BPS
BPS
Friday, April 28, AD 2017 7:48am

Squeal Team Six!

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Friday, April 28, AD 2017 8:13am

I do believe the good Lord has a sense of humor and irony.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Friday, April 28, AD 2017 10:23am

This is poetry in motion.
A dance between two like minded creatures. So fitting that the Mohammed fanatics ended up as pig excrement. Poor pigs.

Mary De Voe
Friday, April 28, AD 2017 11:40am

Poetic Justice

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Friday, April 28, AD 2017 3:35pm

Iustitia Divina!

MikeS
MikeS
Friday, April 28, AD 2017 9:39pm

The trouble with condemning Western education/philosophy is that you don’t have a copy of Aristotle with which to choke the pig.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Saturday, April 29, AD 2017 5:29am

“Cry Havoc! And let slip the hogs of war!”

Theological question: Do they still get 72 virgins?

Anyhow, more and faster.

Mary De Voe
Saturday, April 29, AD 2017 6:54am

T. Shaw: Theological question: After the 72 virgins, what then?

Stephen E Dalton
Stephen E Dalton
Saturday, April 29, AD 2017 7:21am

Soo-Wee, Soo-Wee!

TomD
TomD
Saturday, April 29, AD 2017 10:34am

“Theological question: Do they still get 72 virgins?”

No. You must kill infidels to get them. They now go to the Islamic holding cell (that makes Purgatory look like a rose garden) to await their final judgement.

Of course, their is always OUR theology…

TomD
TomD
Saturday, April 29, AD 2017 10:35am

there their is always OUR theology…

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Saturday, April 29, AD 2017 10:56am

Heres what awaits the
cowards; https ://goo.gl/images/HcJHbi

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