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| IS Blows Up Columns in Syria's Palmyra to Execute Three |
| 2015-10-27 |
| [AnNahar] 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.... jihadist group executed three people in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group said Monday. Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said IS on Sunday "tied three individuals it had tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! from Palmyra and its outskirts to the columns... and executed them by blowing up" three columns. Khaled al-Homsi, an activist from Palmyra, said IS had yet to inform local residents who the executed individuals were or why they had been killed. "There was no one there to see (the execution). The columns were destroyed and IS has prevented anyone from heading to the site," Homsi told AFP. Since the jihadists seized Palmyra from regime forces in May, they have destroyed multiple sites and historic artifacts, including its celebrated temples of Bel and Baal Shamin as well as several funerary towers. IS has used Palmyra's grand amphitheater for a massacre in which child members of the group killed 25 Syrian soldiers, execution-style, in front of residents. It also beheaded Palmyra's 82-year-old former antiquities director in August. Palmyra's ruins are on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and before the war around 150,000 tourists a year visited the town. |
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