Iraq crisis: Mystery shrouds fate of 39 Indian hostages
- 5 years ago
The detention of 39 Indian immigrants by jihadists in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul since June 15 is the first major foreign policy crisis of the Narendra Modi government. Since 2004, more than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq and only a few dozen among them could eventually be freed.
We can take cold comfort from the fact that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now controls Mosul, did not deliberately plan and go after Indians per se. It was not a targeted terrorist strike aimed at Indian nationals. The victims, hailing from Punjab and Haryana, happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a region-wide Sunni upsurge spread from Syria and rapidly displaced the Iraqi state.
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We can take cold comfort from the fact that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now controls Mosul, did not deliberately plan and go after Indians per se. It was not a targeted terrorist strike aimed at Indian nationals. The victims, hailing from Punjab and Haryana, happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a region-wide Sunni upsurge spread from Syria and rapidly displaced the Iraqi state.
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