...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
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terror group in the ancient town of Palmyra in 2015, according to the BBC.
The jihadists murdered 81-year-old Khaled al-Asaad, after he refused to divulge where some of the town’s treasures had been hidden.
The man was a hero, quietly stymieing the ISIS invaders while they tortured him to death, neither surrendering without a fight nor fleeing without any attempt to fight back at a time when almost everyone else was doing both.
Two other bodies have been found near Palmyra by Syrian forces. All three are set to undergo DNA identification.