Long War Journal:Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, may not have been murdered by his kidnappers, according to new information provided by the Iraqi military. Rahho appears to have died of natural causes while he was held hostage by terrorists demanding millions of dollars for his release.
“The archbishop was left dead in Intisar five days ago,” Colonel Hage Alzebari, the intelligence chief for 2nd Iraqi Army Division told The Long War Journal at Combat Outpost Power in Mosul on March 14. “There were no signs of torture. We believe he died of a heart attack, of natural causes.”
The Iraqi Army’s assessment matches a report from the SIR Catholic news agency, which indicated the archbishop died of illness just prior to being left in a shallow grave in eastern Mosul. “The kidnappers told Iraqi church officials on Wednesday that Archbishop Rahho was very ill and, later on the same day, that he was dead,” according to the BBC report.
The fact that archbishop Rahho died of natural causes doesn't make his death any less barbaric. Apparently suffering from a heart ailment, his kidnappers denied him his medication. And as his health began to fail he was denied the opportunity to get treated by a doctor. After death, the kidnappers dumped his body, half-buried, in a field.
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The people who did this are subhuman savages.
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