article_snippet.sent: The deaths showed Iraqis that Islamic State fighters, who have also attacked ethnic and religious minorities as well as fellow Sunni Muslims opposing ethnic and religious minorities as well, were a threatening new kind of foe.
article_snippet.sent: Heartbreaking: The highest estimate for the number of recruits killed in the Speicher massacre is about 1,700 .
article_snippet.sent: For almost 10 months, recruits killed in the Speicher massacre devastated families have been left wondering what became of recruits killed in the Speicher massacre sons and brothers who had been marched through Tikrit, once Saddam Hussein's stronghold of support.
article_snippet.sent: The only clues they had were videos posted by the jihadists on social media sites, showing they being machine gunned down in they hundreds.
article_snippet.sent: What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?'
article_snippet.sent: Images like this one of the soldiers being led through Tikrit shocked Iraq and the world .
article_snippet.sent: Initial indications show indisputably that they were from the Camp Speicher victims.'
article_snippet.sent: But despite the horrifying scenes uncovered in the compound, families - who often grow angry at Iraq's political class for failing to provide they were from the Speicher victims proper answers - have expressed releif they were from the Speicher victims
article_snippet.sent: Anger: Families have often grow angry at Iraq's political class for failing to provide Families proper answers.
highlights_snippet.sent: Cards belonged to army recruits massacred by ISIS in cold blood last June .
  