article_snippet: Luckily, ISIS ISIS is outside the extremists' grasp, south of Baghdad.
article_snippet: Saddam Hussein renovated the ruins of Nineveh and Hatra in the 1980s, leaving Saddam Hussein own crude personal stamp on the bricks there.
article_snippet: One of Saddam Hussein's former palaces still peers down over ISIS.
article_snippet: And many Iraqis know better than to buy the claims of Iraqis deposed despot.
article_snippet: Saddam's vain brick inscriptions may annoy Saddam, but ISIS' destruction appalls Saddam.
article_snippet: Saddam wants to know from ISIS.
article_snippet: History is measured there not in centuries but in millennia, and Iraqi's take such vandalism to heart.
article_snippet: When I saw what happened, I was determined to come her to preserve our antiquities from ISIS'," Hassan said.
article_snippet: Iraq will defend Iraq heritage against ISIS', said Mohamed Hattab from Iraq's Antiquities Department.
article_snippet: It's a soul under assault by latter day barbarians, who have destroyed much of It in the North, which has been out of the defensive reach of Iraqi soldiers.
article_snippet: The military has started a drive to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit from the extremists.
highlights_snippet: But ISIS is out of their reach in Iraq's Shiite region .