 Daesh suppressed the communities and perpetrated barbaric acts against the communities, majority and minority communities, Sunni Arabs, Shi'a Arabs, Kurds, Christians, Shabbat, Yazidis, and others. And what is less known for the outside world is how Daesh implicated local tribes, local communities, and has sown the seeds of division and violence on which they survive. In one such act, in the city of Tikrit, in the province of Salah-e-Din in Iraq, they committed what is called the Spiker Massacre. And this is important. This is the breakdown of what CVE, what recruitment, what all that means comes to life. It falls at the fault line between the Sunni-Shia divide in Iraq and that area. So the massacre, which killed 1,700 Shi'a servicemen, mostly young cadets, from 20 Shi'a tribes from nine provinces of the south. That was a wound that was wide and deep. And you have to see this in the context of the Iraq war and Iraq violence, violence for 11 years before that. And at the heart of it was sectarian violence. So for the Shi'a, this was yet another act of the Sunnis, an attack against the Shi'a. It widened the schism towards that was between the two communities. For the Shi'a, they perceived the Sunnis to be either terrorists or supporters of terrorists. And this was yet another example. So this act, this massacre, had the potential to spiral out of control, unleash cycles of violence that would have been at the tribal level, that would have been extremely difficult for the Iraqi army to control, for the counter-Daesh coalition to respond to. And that kind of risk would have made Mosul, the liberation of Mosul, which we have before us today, even far more difficult if not further delayed.