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| ISIS Kills 17 in Syria to Avenge Assassinations |
| 2015-01-17 |
| [AnNahar]. Jihadists have executed 17 men in recent days in areas they control in eastern and northern Syria to avenge a string of liquidations targeting their fighters, a monitor said Friday. "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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group has executed 16 men in Deir Ezzor and one more in Raqa, to send a message to all their opponents after recent liquidations of 12 Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian jihadists," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman. "The men were accused of fighting IS," Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that only one of them had been proven to be linked to the liquidations. He added: "IS is sending a message to all people living under its control, to say: 'This is what will happen to any opponent.'" The group emerged in Syria's war in 2013 and in June declared a "caliphate" in areas under its control straddling Syria and Iraq. It has committed some of the war's worst abuses, carrying out near-daily executions in areas in its grip. Most of Raqa and Deir Ezzor provinces are IS-controlled. Among those executed in the past two days in oil-rich Deir Ezzor were five members of the Shaitat tribe, which launched a local rebellion last year against IS. The jihadists quelled the revolt, killing more than 900 tribe members in response. Syria's war has killed more than 200,000 people in nearly four years. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 200,000 that's nearly as many people as Saddam Hussein killed a year when he was in power. No one seems to want to know how many 100s of thousands of people Saddam Hussein murdered during his reign... |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-01-17 12:48 |