Islamic State Jihadists waging 'Sexual Holy War': A woman issues a heartrending plea

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 style="font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please, let American jets bomb my prison... death is better than to be forced off with a strange man: 8 months pregnant, captured by Islamic thugs waging 'Sexual Holy War' - one woman issues a heartrending plea</span></span></h1> <div class="author-section mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By <a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Ian+Birrell+In+Dohuk" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">IAN BIRRELL IN DOHUK</a></span></div> <div> <br /></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive and shaking with fear. ‘If they see me talking to someone they will kill me for sure, maybe kill all of us.’</span><br /> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This was Nisreen, a 17-year-old seized by the vicious Islamic State forces who have swept through Iraq and Syria spreading fear and panic.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She told how she was one of 96 Yazidi girls kidnapped when their towns and villages fell to the fanatics.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now these teenagers wait in terror to be sold into slavery or forced into marriage with militant Islamists.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘I know this exact number because I hear them talking,’ said Nisreen. ‘We are sure they have sold us. We do not fear for our lives but for our dignity as women.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was a brave phone call from a desperate woman.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The world has heard the hideous stories of refugees fleeing the jihadists but here, for the first time, was a voice from the other side: from a kidnap victim trapped in IS’s newly-won territory.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The husband of another teenage woman, heavily pregnant, held  captive by the IS told me how she would rather the US bombed her prison – with her inside – than be handed out like a piece of property to an extremist fighter.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said: ‘Let those jets come to bomb us and save us from this situation by killing all of us.’ She added death would be a better fate than to ‘be forced off with a strange man.’</span></div> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span> <br /> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These two extraordinary accounts, together with information gathered from numerous first-hand sources in and around Irbil and Dohuk in the past week, reveal for the first time the appalling reality of life for captives held in IS-held Iraq.</span></div> <br /> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Pitiful: Children who had to flee their homes seek solace in sleep in a refugee camp in the Iraqi city of Irbil" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="428" id="i-ee88392a44f8e64c" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/article-2726894-2093E3D300000578-122_634x428.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pitiful: Children who had to flee their homes seek solace in sleep in a refugee camp in the Iraqi city of Irbil</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Horrifically, we can reveal:</span></div> <ul style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A doctor conducts virginity tests to ensure women are ‘pure’ enough for the jihadists.</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lS leaders have sanctioned ‘Jihad al Niqah’, an extreme form of sexual holy war that permits fighters to take any women they want.</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seized women are being handed as gifts to IS fighters, starved into submission and sold off as slaves, while children are stolen to be raised as Muslims and scores of men face conversion or death.</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lS guards warning captives they will get four chances to convert. Twice they will be asked politely; the third time they will be whipped with a leather strap; if they still refuse at the fourth time of asking, they face death.</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An official with IS’s religious guards confirmed the atrocities.</span></li> </ul> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The detailed evidence comes from captive women talking from their prisons, dozens of desperate families, a leaked United Nations report and activists collating information amid the chaos of Iraqi Kurdistan with 200,000 refugees driven from their homes by militants. </span></div> <div class="moduleFull" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <br /> <div class="item" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="v-3724527010001" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="videoplayer-large" style="height: 358px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 636px;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"></a><br /> <div class="videoplayer-title-bg" style="box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 3px 5px; height: 26px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 636px;"> </div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="videoplayer-title" style="left: 6px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 4px;"> Yazidi families seperated in trek towards Kurdish-controlled Iraq</div> <div class="btnBg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 6px; border-bottom-right-radius: 6px; border-top-left-radius: 6px; border-top-right-radius: 6px; box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 2px 2px 3px; height: 85px; left: 275.5px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 140px; width: 85px;"> </div> <span class="playbtn" style="border-color: transparent transparent transparent rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: dashed dashed dashed solid; border-width: 0.53em 0.53em 0.53em 1em; display: inline-block; height: 0px; left: 289.5px; position: absolute; right: 0.25em; top: 151.5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 0px;"></span><center style="text-align: left;"> <img class="plcHlder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/11/video-undefined-206EFBFE00000578-600_636x358.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 358px; margin: 0px; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;" /></center> </a></div> <div class="news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wocc videoplayer-keyline" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; height: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Camping: Around 200,000 refugees have been driven from their homes by militants. Above, refugees in Irbil" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="2" height="412" id="i-8b8825dcb678c5e5" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/article-2726894-2093585400000578-74_634x412.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Camping: Around 200,000 refugees have been driven from their homes by militants. Above, refugees in Irbil</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are also sources I cannot reveal for fear of endangering courageous informants.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their stories are shocking and strikingly similar, whether from the hostage themselves, husbands talking to captured wives, fathers whose daughters and sons are behind bars, even escaped children who witnessed parents marched off by IS forces under black flags.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an exclusive interview offering disturbing insight into their cruel zealotry and callous practices, IS prison official Abu Obaida detailed the stark options confronting seized women and girls.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He confirmed forcing children into militant Islam and explained why Christians can pay to flee their clutches, but not Yazidis. He even invited me to go and live under the medieval Caliphate declared by IS.</span></div> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <i><b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Teenagers wait in terror to be sold into slavery or forced into marriage with militant Islamists'</span></b></i></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thousands were seized when Sinjar, an historic centre for the Yazidi sect, fell a fortnight ago. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many more fled into nearby mountains, terrified by stories of IS savagery such as beheading and crucifying their enemies, and are now refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The hostages  – two thirds of whom are women, according to Yazidi activists – are held in prisons, schools, sports centres, mosques, hospitals and even private homes in areas under IS control.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nisreen was taken from her home village to Mosul, Iraq’s second city which fell in June, then into Syria for a week. She was bought back by bus to an Iraqi prison for three days, then moved to a location I promised not to reveal from where she made that courageous call.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She is just one among many. As I toured building sites, schools, roadsides and camps crammed with Yazidi refugees last week, I heard story after heartbreaking story.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Lucky ones: Islamic State militants today 'massacred' more than 300 Yazidi men - just one day after allegedly killing 82 others who refused to convert to Islam. Above, Yazidis take refuge in Dohuk Province on August 15" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="3" height="423" id="i-6de64442ddb1e3d6" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408187072371_wps_1_Displaced_people_from_the.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taking refuge: Yazidi men and women are pictured taking refuge in Dohuk Province on August 15</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Faysal Sherif, 27, was finishing his masters degree in microbiology at a Turkish university when the Islamists drove forward. His 24-year-old wife and infant son were seized along with 39 other members of her family and all their possessions.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The men were tied up in the centre of their village, then not heard from again, while the women and children were taken to Telafar prison for 12 days then moved to a nearby school.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife, having hidden her mobile phone, calls her distraught husband daily. ‘When we talk they are crying and wailing,’ said Faysal. ‘They told the women either you convert to Islam or you die of starvation. Many children are dying of dehydration.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘They get just one piece of bread a day. The children get one can of milk between ten each day. My son has had diarrhea for ten days now –he will surely die soon.</span></div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Scared: Thousands of Yazidis were seized when Sinjar, an historic centre for the anicent sect, fell a fortnight ago. Above, Yazidi men at Bajed Kadal refugee camp" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="4" height="423" id="i-172802a6bffb36ee" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408186240229_wps_7_Displaced_people_from_the.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forced from their homes: Thousands of Yazidis were seized when Sinjar, an historic centre for the anicent sect, fell a fortnight ago. Above, Yazidi men at Bajed Kadal refugee camp</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Fleeing: Many more fled into nearby mountains, terrified by stories of IS savagery such as beheading and crucifying their enemies, and are now refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan. Above, displaced women from the minority Yazidi sect at Bajed Kadal camp" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="5" height="418" id="i-81364442d0e03cf6" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/16/1408187072389_wps_2_Displaced_people_from_the.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fleeing: Many more fled into nearby mountains, terrified by stories of IS savagery such as beheading and crucifying their enemies, and are now refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan. Above, Yazidi women at the refugee camp</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We need help from the UK, the US, the United Nations. Anyone. Every minute, every hour is costing lives.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Salem, a 19-year-old handyman, fled into the Sinjar mountains after fighting for four hours against the Islamist militia until their bullets ran out.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife Hayam was captured, although eight months pregnant, along with his brother and four younger sisters. He had left Hayam with spare batteries for her mobile phone. She called him several times from a centre crammed with kidnapped women and children, saying they are being ‘tortured’ with starvation and too little drink in the searing heat.</span></div> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="400 slaughtered after ultimatum exposed by MoS" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="6" height="569" id="i-9b704683429a55e8" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2726894-2094F64C00000578-529_306x569.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The women have been told they will stay in the school until they convert. Salem added: ‘Some children are still there, some have been taken away.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They were told the children are being taken away to teach them the laws of Islam. Some are in Syria, some are in Mosul.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As he told his tragic story, this young man’s distress was palpable; he broke down at one point in tears. His parents are also both missing.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He has contacted Kurdish politicians and Yazidi activists to persuade the US to destroy the school holding his wife. ‘They say death is better than to be forced off with a strange man for the rest of your life.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All those I spoke to were adamant that conversion was not an option. One authoritative source revealed how a teenage captive killed herself when ordered to wash and change clothes for the first time after 12 days in prison, fearing she was being married off.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Every day we do not liberate these girls and women means we lose some more to IS,’ said Narin Shammo, a Yazidi journalist, who has been using social media to try to establish the number of captives. In one day alone, she received 657 possible new cases.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From the start of its rise during the Syrian civil war, IS – formerly called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – has used the most inhumane tactics, combined with kidnapping and hostage-taking to raise funds.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One Iraqi soldier told me he was part of a group captured in June. Ten Shia Muslim and 5 Yazidi troops were instantly murdered by the militants. More than 20 survivors were taken to Syria, then each of their families was told to pay $50,000 to save their lives.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All eventually paid up except for one soldier from a very poor family who negotiated a cut-price deal. 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It is estimated up to one-third of IS forces are foreigners.Such activities have increased  since the recent collapse of large chunks of Iraq into the Caliphate.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christians are given a choice of conversion or payment of an annual tithe if they wish to stay in their homes but most fled in fear.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Yazidi, a Kurdish sect falsely seen as devil-worshippers by the extremists due to their ancient beliefs, are treated far more harshly with a choice only of conversion or death.</span></div> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b>'From the start of its rise during the Syrian civil war, IS has used the most inhumane tactics, combined with kidnapping and hostage-taking to raise funds'</b></i><br /> </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shivan, a Yazidi soldier in the Iraqi army, claimed IS took 700 people from his three local towns alone. ‘They started taking the girls and women, killing many of the men whose bodies were left lying on the streets. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They said they were taking the women to Talafar prison, to Badash prison, to Mosul.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like others, he alleged some local Arabs sided with IS and turned on former friends and neighbours.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A ten-year-old boy called Daud told of seeing his parents seized. He said men with military clothing and black flags fluttering from four-wheel vehicles stopped his family fleeing.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We were taken back to the village and they started to line us up against a wall,’ the child said. ‘They stood us there, then left with lots of people. They took my mother and father.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such tales of misery pile up in places where Yazidi seek sanctuary. One man told of 42 missing relatives, another of 14 taken from his wife’s family, a third of 150 kidnapped from his village.</span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Victims: Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect are seen fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="8" height="423" id="i-7d656a62477504b6" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2726894-2088AF5F00000578-70_634x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Victims: Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect are seen fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lurid rumours are circulating of enforced cannibalism, of mass rape, of mothers made to set themselves on fire. And internal UN documents from their mission in Iraq quote reports that IS ‘elements’ killed ‘well over 500 Yazidi individuals’ in retaliation for the first US air strikes last week, according to a source there.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alarmingly the UN also believes Kurdish Peshmerga forces are being ‘overwhelmed on numerous fronts’ by IS, which has more troops and better equipment.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The abuse and atrocities were  confirmed quite happily by the IS official enforcing extreme Islamic rules in Telafar prison when we spoke on Thursday night.</span></div> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Extraordinary interviews: Ian Birrell in Dohuk" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="9" height="467" id="i-ec7a926a343c9e4c" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/17/article-2726894-2094EE9300000578-117_306x467.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><br /> <div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+10</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Extraordinary interviews: Ian Birrell in Dohuk</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obaida, an Iraqi from Mosul, insisted his religious laws permitted the kidnap and sale of women. He said: ‘If they convert to Islam they can go back to their homes and we will protect their dignity and safety.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘But if they resist or turn to atheism they will be like slaves and will be judged and traded according to our laws towards slaves.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Selling is according to sharia because they are slaves. But we have not sold anyone yet.’ Obaida claimed some Yazidi had converted, but could only get their wives back if they too agreed to become Muslims. ‘It is not possible in Islam to f*** atheist women.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the captured children were ‘safe’, although added chillingly they would be brought up under their ‘essentials’ of Islam. ‘Then we will release them and provide for them for a proper life.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This polite bigot said the Yazidi were singled out for special treatment because unlike Jews and Christians, ‘they are not people of the book’.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said IS would fight until they all converted to Islam as part of their mission to drive non-Muslims from their Caliphate.The only question he refused to answer was over IS foreign fighters. ‘I cannot talk about this subject,’ he said.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked about extending their struggle to Western countries, Obaida said this would be decided by the ‘minister of war’ appointed by their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – a man reportedly radicalised during detention after the US-led invasion of 2003.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘We will fight the USA because they are using Arab rulers to fight us,’ Obaida added. ‘But we do not want massacres, we do not want fighting. We just want all these people to convert to Islam so their dignity, money and safety is with us.’</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such fine talk. Yet words such as dignity and safety could not be  further removed from the latest hell that his fanatical forces have unleashed on Iraq, especially for those frightened women such as Nisreen cowering in their cells  as they await sale like cattle in  a market.</span></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Boko-Haram-militants1.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Panic in Borno/Adamawa communities"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Boko-Haram-militants" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Boko-Haram-militants1-702x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Panic in Borno/Adamawa communities" width="702" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Panic in Borno/Adamawa communities</span></span></h1> </header><div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…As Boko Haram insurgents flee Gwoza</strong></div> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fear has gripped residents of some communi­ties around the border of Borno and Ad­amawa states following rumours that Boko Ha­ram insurgents fleeing from Gwoza may attack their communities.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ezekiel Musa and Markus Yalah, both residents of Askira, south of Borno and Madagali in Adamawa State said they fled the communi­ties yesterday to Maiduguri to stay with their brothers in response to the rumour that Boko Haram was planning to attack their towns.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We heard Boko Haram men left Gwoza and have vowed to attack some com­munities in Askira/Uba again. So most people have not been sleeping very well since Thursday. We had to leave because everybody is talking about it. We came through Biu to Gujba in Yobe,” Markus disclosed.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, a Maiduguri resident who did not want his name in print confirmed the develop­ment, adding that his mother intimated him about the anxiety in his village. “My mother told me people in our village didn’t sleep since Thursday. I asked her to come to Maiduguri, but she refused, I’m worried about her safety now,” the resident, a civil servant told Sunday Sun. 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Sources however said the in­tensity of military air strikes on the area pushed out the in­surgents on Thursday as they headed for Pulka, few kilo­metres away where they car­ried out another attack, fuel­ing speculation the terrorists may visit other communities southward with violence.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, a member representing Gwoza State Constituency in the Borno State House of Assembly, Hon Usman Jana Babayo has said over 65 per cent of peo­ple displaced by the recent Gwoza attack have taken ref­uge in Uba, Borno and Mubi in Adamawa State but lack food and clean water. He said the situation compelled Bor­no State government to pro­cure relief materials worth N10 million, adding that the materials have been distrib­uted to those at Madagali, 40 kilometres, south of Gwoza.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Some fled to Uba and Madagali while others went as far as Mubi in Adamawa for safety. Some are still on the mountain,” he disclosed.<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Olympic Organisers Issue Ban Over Ebola Risk

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">                                          <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Olympic Youth Games are hit by a ban on some swimming and combat event competitors, amid rising fears of Ebola spreading.</span><br /> <div class="last-updated" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 40px; max-width: 40%; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right;"> <div class="last-updated__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <section class="story__media" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="module module--primary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 660px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 371px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530 1600x900" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/14/329501/default/v2/rtr42git-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/14/329501/default/v2/rtr42git-1-1600x900.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 371px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 660px;" /></div> <div class="image__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 1,000 people have died in West Africa from ebola</span></div> </div> </div> </section><br /> <div class="story__content-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="share" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 4px; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <ul class="share__list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="share__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 16px 16px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 40px;"><a class="share__link js-share" href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2F1319044%2Folympic-organisers-issue-ban-over-ebola-risk" style="background-position: 0px 0px; 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max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said three competitors would not be allowed to take part in combat sports and swimming pool events.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IOC and the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee said it was impossible to rule out the risk of potential infection.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</span></div> <div class="image image--inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="91x68 300x225 480x360" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/15/329569/default/v1/rtr41xfe-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/15/329569/default/v1/rtr41xfe-1-480x360.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> <div class="image__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Martial arts performers practice for the opening ceremony on Saturday</span></div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those from the affected regions competing in other sports will undergo regular temperature checks and physical assessments throughout the games, which begin on Saturday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IOC added that there had been no suspected cases of ebola reported in China and "the risk of infection is extremely unlikely". </span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/080814EBOLATOMCAIRNS1407509412066700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/080814EBOLATOMCAIRNS1407509412066374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <div class="video__placeholder-wrapper js-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item video__teaser-image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/8/328241/default/v2/cegrab-20140808-161457-678-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/8/328241/default/v2/cegrab-20140808-161457-678-1-942x530.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px; width: 540px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="video__type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</span> <span class="video__teaser" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1970s Ebola Survivor Speaks Out</span></span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The decision came after the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the number of deaths and confirmed cases of ebola in West Africa has been vastly underestimated.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The death toll from the outbreak in the region currently stands at more than 1,068 people.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There have been 1,975 confirmed, probable or suspected cases, the WHO said.</span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/07/010714EBOLACRAWFORDJOURNEYCUP1404274365252700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/07/010714EBOLACRAWFORDJOURNEYCUP1404274365252374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <div class="video__placeholder-wrapper js-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item video__teaser-image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/7/1/320309/default/v1/cegrab-20140701-204001-380-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/7/1/320309/default/v1/cegrab-20140701-204001-380-1-942x530.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px; width: 540px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="video__type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</span> <span class="video__teaser" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Travelling Through Ebola Epicentre</span></span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The majority of the cases have occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Four deaths have also been reported in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the WHO said there was evidence that the number of reported cases underestimated the scale of the suffering.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The outbreak is expected to continue for some time. 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max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officials say only three people will receive the drug, which could prove life-saving, but may be ineffective or even harmful.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Liberian government previously said two doctors would receive ZMapp, but it remains unclear who else will be treated.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</span></div> </section><section class="partner-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 60px; max-width: 540px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="partner-links__external" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <h2 class="partner-links__title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); 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Fear grips Kuje residents over plan to designate hospital Ebola centre

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="single-post-thumb" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Bala Mohammed" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" data-cfsrc="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Bala-Mohammed.jpg" height="330" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Bala-Mohammed.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 620px;" width="239" /></span></div> <div class="single-post-caption" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bala Mohammed</span></div> <div class="post-inner" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 20px 0px;"> <h1 class="name post-title entry-title" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="border: 0px none; font-weight: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span itemprop="name" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fear grips Kuje residents over plan to designate hospital Ebola centre</span></span></h1> <div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 7px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="post-meta-author" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Posted by: <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/author/rilwan/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" title="">Blessing Olaifa, Abuja</a></span> <span class="post-cats" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">in <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/category/news/" rel="category tag" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" title="View all posts in News">News</a></span> <span class="tie-date" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">7 hours ago</span></span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px none; clear: both; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="entry" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <div class="pf-content" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was panic at the General Hospital, Kuje, Abuja yesterday, following a speculation that the hospital had been designated an Ebola isolation centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The speculation began when The Red Cross supplied medical aids to the hospital. Three vehicles, with the insignia of the Red Cross, ferried  the supplies.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Youths gathered around the hospital discussing their fear that the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had designated the hospital as a centre for the treatment of the deadly disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hospital workers rushed out to re-park their vehicles outside the hospital premises for fear that the youths might go violent. There were reports the community was opposed to the idea of an EVD Isolation and Treatment Centre in the town.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Terbunde Egbi, dispelled the rumour that the equipment and drugs were for Ebola treatment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr.  Egbi, who received the officials of the Red Cross, said there was no need for panic as the materials and equipment delivered were not for Ebola.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She added that some of the materials were also meant for some Primary Health Care Centres within the area. She said there was no need for anyone to be apprehensive over the pronouncement of the government on the issue, adding that “as of now, no Ebola case has been reported in the FCT”.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Egbi told <em style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nation </em>that since the pronouncement of the FCT Minister last weekend, there was only a sensitisation visit of all stakeholders to the hospital on Monday. According to her, the hospital workers were yet to be briefed properly as everything regarding the matter was yet at planning stage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A nurse, who spoke with <em style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nation</em> in confidence, said she had to quickly move her car out of the hospital premises when she overheard the youths saying they would mobilise others to register their protest against the use of the hospital as an Ebola Treatment Centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said she could not take things for granted as the youths might start disrupting the smooth operations of the hospital.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sources, who spoke in confidence, were of the view that the hospital was not suitable for the treatment of Ebola as it is surrounded closely by residential buildings and a school.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A pharmacist said it would have been better for the government to use the Zuba Cottage Hospital for the Ebola Isolation Centre. He said since the Zuba hospital is more isolated and is yet to be put into use by the government, it would be better to engage it for the purpose of the Ebola Virus treatment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Said the source: “For Ebola treatment to start here, it means you have to evacuate about 600 patients out of here. In addition, daily no fewer than 60 patients visit this hospital; so, where are you going to take them? It is unthinkable that the government will designate this hospital for Ebola because it is in the middle of people.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Look at residential buildings all around and a school behind the hospital; even at that are they going to engage the health personnel here for that purpose. Don’t forget if you recruit them for such assignment, they would not be allowed to have contact with people for 21 days. So, what happened to the health workers who come every day and are living in the midst of the people?”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking with <em style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nation</em>, Mr Kafas Ibrahim, an indigene, said it was wrong for government to say that it would use the hospital for Ebola treatment, saying already people are apprehensive about the decision. He said the youths were prepared to stage demonstrations against the decision.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Isah Ahmed, another resident, said the FCT Minister and those who arrived at the decision were looking for trouble. He said it was an attempt to carryout experiment on the people of Kuje, stressing that he would not be surprised if the experiment back fired on the people in government.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Head of Department for Health at Kuje Council Area, Dr. Veronica Yama, said the local government authorities in conjunction with other stakeholders had only started sensitisation visits to settlements, towns and villages in the council.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Yama, who spoke on behalf of the council, said besides the sensitisation, every other thing regarding the matter was at a planning stage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The traditional Ruler of Kuje, the Gomo of Kuje, could not be reached, but his Secretary, Mallam Abubakar told The Nation on phone that the palace was aware of government’s decision.</span></div> <div class="printfriendly pf-alignright" style="border: 0px none; 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