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For those of you who are not familiar with the character, the Punisher debuted in a Marvel comic book series in the 1970s. Heâs a real bad-ass who rights wrongs, delivering vigilante justice. A movie by the same name had just come out; the Punisher wore a shirt with a stylized white skull.
As a poorly-guided vigilante the Punisher is a well-suited icon for the Iraqi security forces and Shiâite militia that have been accused of looting towns, burning homes and murder in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).