Iraq massacre site turns into 'shrine' of anti-IS war Two weeks after Iraqi troops and militia retook Tikrit, the main site of the "Speicher massacre" -- named after the military base near which the victims were seized -- is fast becoming a pilgrimage destination. A symbolic tombstone has been laid where Islamic State group fighters carried out their assembly-line slaughter, shooting the young mostly Shiite men in the head before tipping them into the river one by one. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES