An image published alongside the "kill" list on Monday.
ISIS Uses Barbaric New Execution Method to Kill 25 Civilians
By Yochanan Visser / WesternJouralism.com
The Islamic State has found a new way to execute prisoners that might be even more barbaric than what the group has used before.
Recently in Mosul, Iraq, ISIS publicly
executed 25
civilians by tying them with ropes and putting them in a cage that was
slowly lowered into a large tub containing nitric acid. The organs of
the victims dissolved in the acid, Iraqi News reported.
Nitric acid, or HNO3, is an extremely corrosive and toxic chemical
that results in severe burns in case of direct contact with the human
body
The executed men were accused of spying and collaborating with Iraqi security forces.
The 25 citizens of Mosul were not the only ones killed by ISIS last
week. The Jihadists also executed 11 civilians in the city for using
cellphones.
The nitric acid is just the latest in the Islamic State’s barbaric execution methods.
Also in Mosul, ISIS
burnt alive eight
of its own fighters in a bakery oven after they were accused of fleeing
a battle with the Iraqi army in Anbar province. The burnt bodies were
then displayed in the streets of the city to serve as deterrent for
other possible deserters.
In northern Iraq, the Islamic State
used dogs to execute some
of its commanders who had allegedly failed to fulfill their duties. The
ISIS commanders were tied to trees and then hungry dogs were allowed to
maul them to death.
In Yemen, Islamic State terrorists were trying to outdo their colleagues in Iraq.
The executions of three captured Yemenite soldiers could be seen in a
new propaganda video titled “Crush your enemies” that also featured a
Dutch ISIS suicide bomber by the name of Abu Hanifa al-Holandi. The
Dutch Jihadist, also known by the name of Mazen, can be seen blowing
himself up close to the presidential palace in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.
The executions of the soldiers were carried out in different ways.
One soldier had was relatively fortunate: He was tied to a chair and
then shot to death. The second one was beheaded. The third soldier was
made to lay his head on a rock; two ISIS executioners then lifted up a
large boulder and crushed his head.
Meanwhile in Syria, Islamic State went on a killing spree Monday. More than 148 people
were killed in seven simultaneous suicide bombings carried out by terrorists in the seaside cities of Tartus and Jableh in northwest Syria.
Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
they were “without a doubt the deadliest attacks” on the two cities
since the start of the 5-year-old civil war in Syria. Tartus is the home
base of the Russian navy and has been relatively quiet during the war,
which has killed more than 450,000 people.
The increase in suicide bombings carried out by ISIS in both Syria
and Iraq is regarded as a change in the strategy of the group that until
recently was expanding the territories under its control.
The Islamic State is now facing mounting pressure in both Syria and
Iraq and has already lost a third of its territory in these countries.
On Saturday the U.S. Air Force dropped fliers warning the residents
of Raqqa, the capital of ISIS in Syria, to get out of the city
immediately. The Syrian Democratic Forces are reportedly gearing up for
an offensive that aims to liberate the ISIS stronghold.
In Iraq, government forces together with Shiite militias
Monday launched a long-awaited offensive on Fallujah, a city 25 miles
from Baghdad that was captured by the Islamic State in 2014. The latest
news is that the Iraqi army has already entered the outskirts of the
beleaguered city.
A video that was posted on YouTube Monday shows the intense bombardment on ISIS positions in Fallujah.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/islamic-state-uses-barbaric-new-execution-method-to-kill-25-civilians/
WATCH: ISIS in Philippines Beheads Canadian John Ridsdel
In a new video purportedly released by
Islamic State affiliate
Abu Sayyaf , Canadian hostage
John Ridsdel
is beheaded after Canada’s refusal to pay the terrorists his ransom.
The brutal video was released on ISIS terrorist channels on May 3 under
the title “Abu Sayyaf Hostage BEHEADED Pt.1.” News of his death first
broke
in late April .
Ridsdel appeared in a
ransom video
released in November 2015 by Abu Sayyaf, the second time he was forced
on camera following his kidnapping in September. He appeared along with
Robert Hall ,
also of Canada, and Kjartan Sekkingstad of Norway. A third woman in the
video, who appeared Filipino, did not speak. It was unclear if she was a
hostage, too.
Watch that video here.
In March, Abu Sayyaf set a one-month deadline in another video threat, then released a
final 10-day warning in mid April ,
setting April 25 as the last date to receive a ransom payment before a
hostage would be killed. Ridsdel’s death was reported on April 25.
Abu Sayyaf means “father of the swordsmith” in Arabic.
According to The International Business Times, senior Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon and other masked men pledged their allegiance to ISIS in a summer of 2014 video.
In the latest video, ISIS crudely beheads Ridsdel. Click below to watch the video. Viewer discretion is advised.
BAGHDAD — In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group
was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the
fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion.
The killing of Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi, a Tunisian jihadi, sparked a
panicked hunt within the group’s ranks for spies who could have tipped
off the US-led coalition about his closely guarded movements. By the
time it was over, the group would kill 38 of its own members on
suspicion of acting as informants.
They were among dozens of IS members killed by their own leadership
in recent months in a vicious purge after a string of airstrikes killed
prominent figures. Others have disappeared into prisons and still more
have fled, fearing they could be next as the jihadi group turns on
itself in the hunt for moles, according to Syrian opposition activists,
Kurdish militia commanders, several Iraqi intelligence officials and an
informant for the Iraqi government who worked within IS ranks.
The fear of informants has fueled paranoia within the militants’
ranks. A mobile phone or internet connection can raise suspicions. As a
warning to others, IS has displayed the bodies of some suspected spies
in public — or used particularly gruesome methods, including reportedly
dropping some into a vat of acid.
IS “commanders don’t dare come from Iraq to Syria because they are
being liquidated” by airstrikes, said Bebars al-Talawy, an opposition
activist in Syria who monitors the jihadi group.
Over the past months, American officials have said the US has killed a
string of top commanders from the group, including its “minister of
war” Omar al-Shishani, feared Iraqi militant Shaker Wuhayeb, also known
as Abu Wahib, as well as a top finance official known by several names,
including Haji Iman, Abu Alaa al-Afari or Abu Ali Al-Anbari.
In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the biggest city held by IS
across its “caliphate” stretching across Syria and Iraq, a succession of
militants who held the post of “wali,” or governor, in the province
have died in airstrikes. As a result, those appointed to governor posts
have asked not to be identified and they limit their movements, the
Iraqi informant told the Associated Press. Iraqi intelligence officials
allowed the AP to speak by phone with the informant, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, fearing for his life.
The purge comes at a time when IS has lost ground in both Syria and
Iraq. An Iraqi government offensive recaptured the western city of
Ramadi from IS earlier this year, and another mission is under way to
retake the nearby city of Fallujah.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, said some IS fighters began feeding information to the
coalition about targets and movements of the group’s officials because
they needed money after the extremist group sharply reduced salaries in
the wake of coalition and Russian airstrikes on IS-held oil facilities
earlier this year. The damage and the loss of important IS-held supply
routes into Turkey have reportedly hurt the group’s financing.
“They have executed dozens of fighters on charges of giving
information to the coalition or putting (GPS) chips in order for the
aircraft to strike at a specific area,” said Abdurrahman, referring to
IS in Syria.
The militants have responded with methods of their own for rooting
out spies, said the informant. For example, they have fed false
information to a suspected member about the movements of IS leader Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, and if an airstrike follows on the alleged location,
they know the suspect is a spy, he said. They stop fighters in the
street and inspect their mobile phones, sometimes making the fighter
call any unusual numbers in front of them to see who they are.
After the killing of al-Anbari, seven or eight IS officials in Mosul
were taken into custody and have since disappeared, their fates unknown,
said the informant.
“Daesh is now concentrating on how to find informers because they
have lost commanders that are hard to replace,” said a senior Iraqi
intelligence official in Baghdad, using the Arabic acronym for the
Islamic State group. “Now any IS commander has the right to kill a
person whom they suspect is an informer for the coalition.”
Another Iraqi intelligence official said at least 10 IS fighters and
security officials in Mosul were killed by the group in April on
suspicion of giving information to the coalition because of various
strikes in the city.
Mosul also saw one of the most brutal killings of suspected
informants last month, when about a dozen fighters and civilians were
drowned in a vat filled with acid, one senior Iraqi intelligence
official said.
In the western province of Anbar, the Iraqi militant Wuhayeb was
killed in a May 6 airstrike in the town of Rutba. Wuhayeb was a militant
veteran, serving first in al Qaeda in Iraq before it became the Islamic
State group. He first came to prominence in 2013, when a video showed
him and his fighters stopping a group of Syrian truck drivers crossing
Anbar. Wuhayeb asks each if he is Sunni or Shiite, and when they say
Sunni, he quizzes them on how many times one bows during prayer. When
they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite
offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt
and shoot them to death.
After the killing of al-Anbari,
seven or eight IS officials in Mosul were taken into custody and have
since disappeared, their fates unknown, said the informant.
After Wuhayeb’s killing, IS killed several dozen of its own members
in Anbar, including some mid-level officials, on suspicion of informing
on his location, and other members fled to Turkey, the two intelligence
officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were
not authorized to talk to the press.
Some of the suspects were shot dead in front of other IS fighters as a lesson, the Iraqi officials said.
After the Tunisian militant Abu Hayjaa was killed on the road outside
Raqqa on March 30, IS leadership in Iraq sent Iraqi and Chechen
security officials to investigate, according to Abdurrahman and
al-Talawy, the Syria-based activist. Suspects were rounded up, taken to
military bases around Raqqa, and the purge ensued. Within days, 21 IS
fighters were killed, including a senior commander from North Africa,
Abdurrahman said.
Dozens more were taken back to Iraq for further questioning. Of
those, 17 were killed and 32 were expelled from the group but allowed to
live, Abdurrahman and al-Talawy said, both citing their contacts in the
militant group. Among those brought to Iraq was the group’s top
security official for its Badiya “province,” covering a part of central
and eastern Syria. His fate remains unknown.
Non-IS members are also often caught up in the hunt for spies. In the
Tabqa, near Raqqa, IS fighters brought a civilian, Abdul-Hadi Issa,
into the main square before dozens of onlookers and announced he was
accused of spying.
A masked militant then stabbed him in the heart and, with the knife
still stuck in the man’s chest, the fighter shot him in the head with a
pistol.
Issa’s body was hanged in the square with a large piece of paper on
his chest proclaiming the crime and the punishment. IS circulated photos
of the killing on social media.
According to al-Talawy, several other IS members were killed in the
town of Sukhna near the central Syrian city of Palmyra on charges of
giving information to the coalition about IS bases in the area as well
as trying to locate places where al-Baghdadi might be.
Sherfan Darwish, of the US-backed Syria Democratic Forces, which has
been spearheading the fight against IS in Syria, said there is panic in
IS-held areas where the extremists have killed people simply for having
telecommunications devices in their homes.
“There is chaos. Some members and commanders are trying to flee,” Darwish said.
The US-led coalition has sought to use its successes in targeting IS
leaders to intimidate others. In late May, warplanes dropped leaflets
over IS-held parts of Syria with the pictures of two senior militants
killed previously in airstrikes. “What do these Daesh commanders have in
common?” the leaflet read. “They were killed at the hands of the
coalition.”
The jihadis have responded with their own propaganda.
“America, do you think that victory comes by killing a commander or
more?” IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said in a May 21 audio
message. “We will not be deterred by your campaigns and you will not be
victorious.”
ISIS Threatens USA & Europe this month!
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ISIS increasingly relies on child jihadists amid mass losses and desertion (VIDEO)
Islamic State tries to fill up its dramatically dwindling ranks
with children recruiters, RT`s Gayane Chichakyan reports. With fighters’
salaries slashed in half and an ongoing witch hunt for defectors,
terrorists are desperate for manpower.
“The use of minors shows not only how brutal the terrorist group is but also how desperate,” says Chichakyan.
The dire situation in which IS finds itself – under attack from
both Russian and US air forces for the past 6 months – prompted it to
count more on homegrown fighters, namely young children, some no older
than 8. Many of them were kidnapped. It was reported that around 400
Yazidi children were abducted in Iraq by IS militants in January alone.
“Reports
that we’re getting from the ground that there are more and more
defectors, but also that increasingly Daesh (Arabic acronym for Islamic
State) is relying on child soldiers,” US State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday, adding that it indicates that
“they are struggling with their ability to recruit and to retain manpower.”
Islamic
State has been using children at the battleground as well for
propaganda purposes since its emergence. The Ashbal al-Khilafa or “Cubs
of the Caliphate” undergo military training and indoctrination in
special camps, were seen showcasing their harrowing skills in a number
of videos, published by the terror group online.
In one of them
released in December last year, a group of six children each about 8
years old, apparently participate in an appalling hide-and-seek game.
The video titled “To the Son of Jews” shows children guided by a senior
IS ‘instructor’ executing one captive each by gunshot at a close range.
The captives, who are described as “Syrian government spies” are hidden
amid the ancient ruins. The last boy, instead of shooting his prey,
takes a knife and beheads the victim.
Another disturbing video shows a 4-year-old infant, dressed in
camouflage clothing and nicknamed Jihadi Junior, blowing up three
prisoners by pressing a button on a remote control. The footage emerged
February this year.
According to a UN-endorsed report, prepared by
a London-based think tank and entitled “Children of Islamic State”
between August 1 last year and February 9 this year, a total of 254
events or statements featuring images of children in IS propaganda have
been identified. The methods the adult ‘instructors’ use to recruit
young children are often coercive with abduction being the favorite
method. The report also argues that brainwashing techniques applied by
IS resemble those used in Hitler Youth.
Advances by Syrian and
Russian forces, as well as strikes conducted by the US-led coalition,
have noticeably weakened Islamic State and made hundreds of people
desert from its ranks. Earlier reports surfaced that eight Dutch
jihadists accused of a desertion attempt were executed by local ISIS
fighters in the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa late in February. The
number of fighters defecting from IS to join other radical Islamic
groups grows, as IS leadership supposedly opened a witch hunt on
“infidels”.
“They killed us, they called us infidels, doubted us. We supported them and they doubted us,” a man said in a video of what appears to be a group of former Islamic State fighters fleeing Aleppo.
The
Russian Defense Ministry reported that the country’s Air Force in Syria
had carried out more than 9000 sorties since September 30, 2015. During
the course of the campaign, the territory under terrorist control has
shrunk significantly. Concerted efforts by Syrian and Russian
“have freed 400 populated areas and over 10,000 square kilometers [3,860 square miles] of territories," according to Russia`s defense minister Sergey Shoigu.
IS
also sustained a heavy blow to illicit oil trade, the major source of
its income. Russian warplanes in Syria have destroyed 209 terrorist oil
production facilities and about 3,000 oil delivery trucks. On March 14,
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered withdrawal of the man part of
Russian military planes from Syria as the operation’s stated objectives
have been largely accomplished.
https://www.rt.com/news/336029-isis-child-soldiers-desperate/
Illegal Shariah Law Court Operating In London
A shocking video shows activists exposing a Sharia Law court operating inside London – and outside British law.
The court, publicly known as the “Islamic Sharia Council,” is one of an
estimated 100 Sharia law courts carrying out legal matters in the UK in
accordance to Islamic law. “These Sharia courts are popping up all over
Britain and they are usurping our own legal system we have in this
country,” activist and mayoral candidate Paul Golding said in the video.
“All of these Sharia courts need to be closed down immediately.” The
activists pointed out a divorce proceedings flowchart posted on the wall
of the court, and later a miniature courtroom is shown complete with
Islamic law books and a desk for the Muslim judge, known as a qadi, to
sit and preside over cases.
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