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The Yazidi

The Yazidi are a small sect of Kurdish speakers whose religion predates Islam and Christianity. Their holiest city is Mosul. Adherents, who number less than a million (and probably considerably less than half a million) are concentrated in Iraq. The Yazidi welcomed the US invasion, and their communities have been among the quietest and most supportive of the occupation of any in Iraq.

The Yazidi are among those whom the US presence in Iraq is purportedly intended to protect. Today, however, four truck bombs exploded in a pair of Yazidi villages, killing almost 200 and wounding many more. Meanwhile, in Diyala Province, US forces executed “Lightning Hammer”, the latest in a very, very long series of aggressively named military operations designed to provide security for ordinary Iraqis.

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