Just how terrifying is the Sunni Muslim extremist group that’s taken over a huge swath of territory in northern Iraq? Here are some clues:

After seizing Iraq’s second-largest city, the group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL), boasted of massacring 1,700 prisoners in cold blood.

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