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The Grand Turk
Syria anti-IS documentary maker 'assassinated' in Turkey
2015-12-28
He's dead now.
[Beirut Daily Star] A Syrian activist who produced documentaries hostile to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group was assassinated in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
Sunday, according to the group with which he worked, "Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently".

"Film maker Naji Jerf, father of two children, was assassinated... today in Gaziantep", on the border with Syria, with a silencer-equipped pistol, the group said in a statement on Twitter.

RBSS is a group of citizen journalists who work to expose human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
abuses in Raqa, the northeastern city that IS uses as its de facto capital in Syria.

A friend of Jerf's said he had been "supposed to arrive in Gay Paree this week after receiving, along with his family, a visa for asylum in La Belle France".

Jerf was also editor in chief of Hentah, a Syrian magazine that reports on the "daily lives of Syrian citizens", said the publication's website.
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