[ALMANAR.LB] The Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group, ISIL (so-called 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....
in Iraq and Levant), claimed Wednesday to have beheaded a Croatian hostage kidnapped in Egypt, posting a purported picture of the victim's body on ISIL-affiliated Twitter accounts.
The Croat, Tomislav Salopek, was kidnapped last month west of the capital Cairo. The Takfiris had issued a 48-hour deadline that ended last Friday threatening to kill him if Moslem women prisoners were not released from Egyptian jails.
The picture's authenticity could not be immediately verified.
His abduction and purported killing were unprecedented in Egypt, which is battling an ISIL insurgency in the eastern Sinai Peninsula.
State-run Croatian news agency HINA quoted a foreign ministry source as saying it "does not have confirmation that kidnapped Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek has been killed."
The picture was posted on ISIL-affiliated Twitter accounts with the caption: "Execution of prisoner from Croatia -- which has participated in war on Islamic State -- after deadline ended," referring to ISIL.
Salopek, a 31-year-old father of two, had been working with French geoscience company CGG when kidnapped from a car roughly 22 kilometers west of Cairo, security sources told AFP.
| Al Ahram pointed out it's Egyptian IS affiliate Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, not ISIS proper. |
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