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Iraq
ISIS executes three of its leaders for cowardice in Diyali
2015-02-24
[IraqiNews.com] On Sunday, a local source in Diyali province revealed, that the ISIS group has executed three of its elements on charges of cowardice in the face of the security forces in north of Baqubah.

The source informed IraqiNews, "The ISIS group has executed three of its most prominent leaders, known as Abu Nazar al-Obeidi, Qais Abu Mohammed and al-Ansari, after accused them of cowardice in the face of the security forces during festivities in the villages of al-Nay in the area of al-Hawd al-Azim, located 65 km north of Baqubah."

"The group had detained them for more than two months before it carried out the execution," the source added.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  What did they do?
Were they cutting heads with a sharp knife instead of blunt one?
Posted by: Ana   2015-02-24 16:57  

#4  Pour encourager les autres
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2015-02-24 11:30  

#3  Groovy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-24 09:29  

#2  Stalin won, remeber. However it is not true he shot generalms during the war. THat was only true during the four or five first months. Afterwards defeated generals were either given unimportant commands (eg Timoshenko), or simply assummed they were too unexperienced for the job and thus demoted (from Army to to Corps, from Corps to Division), allowed to get experience at that lower rank and somewhat later handed a second oppportunity at the higher.
Posted by: JFM   2015-02-24 05:21  

#1  That's right - use Stalin's playbook - slaughtering all his generals. And - by all means - keep up the beatings, until morale improves.
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2015-02-24 05:04  

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