Militants of ISIS execute captured members of the Iraqi security forces.

ISIS insurgents publish photos of alleged mass execution in Iraq

By correspondent Matt Brown in northern Iraq, wires

Pictures of what appears to be the execution of hundreds of prisoners have been posted online by the Sunni extremist group that has rampaged through Iraq.
The incident appears to have taken place when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over a military base in Tikrit after the garrison there surrendered.
ISIS has boasted on social media that it has killed 1,700 Iraqi government soldiers, but the claim has not been verified. If confirmed it would be the worst single atrocity since the American led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The US has condemned what it called the "horrifying and true depiction of the bloodlust that these terrorists represent".

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