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Afghanistan
ISIS in Afghanistan release new distressing execution photos
2017-03-08
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The loyalists of 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have released new distressing execution photos as the terror group continues to face growing pressures from the Afghan and US forces during the counter-terrorism operations.

The group released the horrific execution photos in social media on Sunday night which purportedly shows the two men are executed in different ways.

The incident has reportedly taken place in the restive Achin district where two more beheading incidents were reported last week.

The loyalists of the terror group accuse the two men of working as spies for the government and execute one of the men with gunshot while the other one is beheaded.

The local officials in Achin said last week that two men had their heads chopped off and their dead bodies were left in the area in this district due to unknown charges.

Posted by:Fred

#3  Bactria, not Pashtunland.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-08 15:22  

#2  grom,

Alexander's conquests resulted in a Hellenic culture in that area for several hundred years. Some people credit (or blame) this culture for the current Afghani practice of older men taking young boys as playtoys. On the more wholesome side, the Buddhist Art that was done in the centuries after Alexander (including the ones that the Taliban destroyed) shows greek influence (when you see Buddha with a toga, blame Alexander).
Posted by: lord garth   2017-03-08 15:07  

#1  Alexander couldn't conquer them. Brits couldn't conquer them. Russians couldn't conquer them. ISIS is gonna do it? Popcorn!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-08 00:57  

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