Vicar of Baghdad: We need military action NOW – Daily Mail August 11, 2014 by John Clark I have just returned from a secret visit to Qaraqosh – once the largest Christian town in Iraq, but no longer. Today, Qaraqosh stands 90 per cent empty, desecrated by the gunmen of the fanatical Islamic State terror group now in control. The majority of the town’s 50,000 people have fled, fearing that, like other Christians in this region, they will be massacred Andrew White. Daily Mail. 10 August 2014 John ClarkShareTweetShare