...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group on Sunday released a video claiming the beheading of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig in a warning to Washington as it prepares to send more troops to Iraq.
The video also showed the gruesome simultaneous beheadings of at least 18 men described as Syrian military personnel, the latest in a series of mass executions and other atrocities carried out by IS in Syria and Iraq.
The latest video also showed a highly choreographed sequence of the beheadings of at least 18 prisoners said to be Syrian officers and pilots loyal to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
Jihadists are shown marching the prisoners past a wooden box of long military knives, each taking one as he passed, then forcing them to kneel in a line and decapitating them.
"Today, we're slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar," the same black-clad bad boy said in the video.
"Tomorrow, we'll be slaughtering your (U.S.) soldiers. And with Allah's permission, we will break this final and last crusade, and the Islamic State will... begin to slaughter your people on your streets."
Sunday's video came as IS suffered battleground losses in Iraq backed by U.S.-led air strikes, with government forces on Saturday breaking the jihadists' months-long siege of Iraq's largest oil refinery.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said IS also executed 13 men in Raqa in Syria, accusing them of belonging to pro-regime sleeper cells.
