When one tried to beg off, citing a back injury, he was told: “If you don’t show up, we’ll come and break your back ourselves.” To make sure every government worker got the message, the militants followed up with phone calls to supervisors. Public servants, the speakers blared, were to report to their former offices. MOSUL, Iraq - Weeks after the militants seized the city, as fighters roamed the streets and religious extremists rewrote the laws, an order rang out from the loudspeakers of local mosques.
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