Category Archives: Islamic State

ISlamic State Crucify Catholic Priest ?

Church leaders deny reports Catholic priest was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday

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If this story turns out to be true and  Islamic State have crucified this priest they  have sunk to new depths of depravity that should outrage and disgust all right minded people the world over.

Their twisted take of on Islam seems to thrive on outrageous acts of barbarity and inhuman treatment of those opposed to their sick ideology and they seem to get off in shocking the world with one atrocity after another. To my mind no religion in the history of mankind has ever shown such casual and brutal disregard to human life andd these merchants of death are the devil incarnated.

Karma is watching and Karma always collects its debts

The chief Catholic bishop in Arabia denied Monday reports that the Islamic State had crucified a Catholic priest on Good Friday, and the cardinal responsible for the initial reports walked back his words also.

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ISIS Abducts Indian Priest

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The Rev. Thomas Uzhunnalil, a Salesian priest, was kidnapped in Yemen in early March during a raid on a nursing home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. His ISIS kidnappers, who also killed 16 Christian nuns, nurses and patients, had issued threats to execute him& sing the same method used by the Romans on Jesus and marked on Good Friday every year.

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Indian Priest Kidnapped By ISIS In Yemen To Be Crucified On Good Friday

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According to a report in the Salzburg News, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna said at his Easter Vigil Mass that the Islamist group had followed through on those threats. There had been no official confirmation from the priest’s order, the responsible diocese or the Vatican.

However, after numerous news outlets, including The Washington Times, picked up Cardinal Schonborn’s words, Bishop Paul Hinder of Southern Arabia said the cardinal had been misinformed.

Bishop Hinder told Catholic News Agency on Monday that he has “strong indications that Fr. Tom is still alive in the hands of the kidnappers.”

The bishop also told CNA that Cardinal Schonborn’s statement at the Easter Mass was made in error — hearsay based on rumors from India, the native land of Father Uzhunnalil.

In a statement Monday on its website, the Archdiocese of Vienna also walked back Cardinal Schonborn’s reported words and repeated Bishop Hinder’s words that “there is still uncertainty” about the Indian priest’s fate.

According to the archdiocese, Cardinal Schonborn spoke with bishops from Arabia on Sunday and said “there is still hope.”

Father Uzhunnalil had been the object of both prayers and diplomatic efforts since the March 4 raid in which Islamic State attackers killed four nuns. Pope Francis consequently praised the nuns as martyrs.

Bishop Hinder said the Missionaries’ home had been the object of numerous threats but they refused to leave.

See Washington Times for full story

 

The brutal Killing of Farkhunda Malikzada

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The brutal  Killing of Farkhunda Malikzada

Farkhunda Malikzada[1] (Persian: فرخنده) was a 27-year-old Afghan woman who was publicly slain by a mob in Kabul on March 19, 2015. A large crowd formed in the streets around Farkhunda when accusers began yelling, announcing her alleged crimes to the public. They claimed that she had burned the Quran, and for that, her accusers announced that she must pay the ultimate price.

Police initially tried to protect Farkhunda and disperse the crowd, but were overwhelmed by the mob’s numbers and fury.

The mob grabbed Farkhunda, pulled her hair, hit her, spit at her, pushed her to the ground, stomped on her body, kicked her in the head, and ripped the veil from her face. Police, seeing the urgency of the situation, attempted to remove her from the crowds by climbing atop a shop roof. Farkhunda lost her balance while…

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Man Survives an ISIS Massacre & Quotes from the Quaran

Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”  No reasonable person would in…

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ISIS executes dozens of its own fighters

As international forces  and local anti -ISIS fighters pile on the pressure ISIS is gradually losing control of its own members and cracks are beginning to unravel the Jihadi army of psychopathic killers and their deluded followers of Islam.

Desertion among their members has become such an issue that it carries a mandatory death sentence and according to local sources the majority of deserters are foreign and European fighters whom have become disillusioned  with the harsh conditions and religious  fanaticism.

In recent months/weeks many of Islamic States top commanders , generals and high profile foreign  fighters have been killed by international and local opposition actions and their area of control is diminishing almost daily.

Earlier this week  Abu Omar the Chechen , a leading member and beloved commander of the terrorist group had reportedly been killed and if this is true this will be another  major blow to the merchants of death and their twisted  ideology.

Omar al-Shishani's corpse with text

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In the past three days alone it has been reported that ISIS have executed approx.  100   of its member for refusing to fight , leaving the battle field and other derelictions of their duty.

Whatever the truth of these executions one thing is clear, hopefully the monster that is ISIS is beginning to  implode and is slowly devouring  itself from the inside out.

Karma always collects its debts and perhaps it is knocking on the door of these evil bastards and making them pay for their twisted and brutal crimes against humanity..

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March 16th 2016

50 Executions

ISIS executes over 50 of its own fighters for trying to escape battlefront

Terrorist group of the ISIS has publicly executed dozens of its own militant fighters who fled the fighting fronts with Iraqi forces.

The militants were arrested after evacuating their fighting positions in ar-Rutba and Hit districts, west of Ramadi.

The ISIS fighters were detained and executed at the hands of fellow fighters in Mosul city of Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province, local sources reported on Tuesday.

“Daesh military leadership in Mosul considered them as traitors and beheaded them in front of hundreds of people, including commanders and Sharia officials,” an eyewitness said using an acronym for ISIS.

“They were mostly Iraqi fighters who fought in ISIS ranks in Anbar province,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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March 15th 2016

35 Executions

ISIS militants executes 35 members for refusing to fight against Iraqi army

An Iraqi security source in Nineveh Province announced on Sunday, that ISIS executed 35 of its militants for refusing to join the battle against the Iraqi forces on the outskirts of the city of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad).

The source said in a statement “ISIS executed 35 of its fighters, after refusing to join the combat axes on the outskirts of the city of Mosul.”

The source, who asked to remain anonymous, added, “ISIS carried out the execution by firing squad in the forest.”

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March 14th 2016

21 Executions

ISIS executes 21 of its fighters in Mosul after fleeing from battles

A local source in Nineveh Province announced on Sunday, that the so-called ISIS executed 21 of its militants in the city of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad), after fleeing from the ongoing battles west of the province.

“Today, ISIS executed 21 of its fighters in the city of Mosul, after fleeing from the combat axes in Makhmour, Waski Mosul, Khazar, Nuran and Bashiqa,” pointing out that, “The executed fighters also refused to join the battles in these areas,” the source said.

The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The terrorist gang carried out the execution by firing squad in one of its camps in Mosul.”

See Abna24 for full story

Abu Omar the Chechen Dead? – Another IS leader bites the dust

Top ISIS commander ‘Omar the Chechen ‘ believed to have been killed in airstrike.

This is the third or fourth time he has reportedly been killed and like any death of Islamic States  top  leaders confirmation is slow and details are often hidden behind the fog of  war.

However US sources are confident they have got it right this time and if so this will be a major blow to the disciples  of hate and the twisted ideology of  Islamic State and their deluded followers.

Slowly slowly catch the monkey

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Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)

 

According to todays Independent ISIS opposition is at the ‘ gates of Raqqa ‘ as Syrian Democratic Forces reclaim villages from their control

The Syrian Democratic Forces have been celebrating a string of victories as they reclaim villages from Isis control, putting them within 20 miles of Raqqa

Without a doubt the forces against IS are slowly gaining the upper hand and IS’s  area of control is reducing almost daily. Desertion among their members has become such an issue that it carries a mandatory death sentence and according to local sources the majority of deserters are foreign and European fighters whom have become disillusioned  with the harsh conditions and religious  fanaticism.

Whatever is causing disharmony among these monstrous Jihadists  is good news for the world in general and the death of the Chechen is another nail in the coffin which will send these scum straight to HELL!

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Abu Omar the Chechen Dead

Omar al-Shishani's corpse with text

The United States has confirmed that ISIS commander Omar al-Shishani, also known as “Omar the Chechen,” is dead, CBS News’ David Martin reports.

According to officials, he survived an initial attack carried out in the beginning of March, but has since died of his wounds, Martin reports. A U.S. official previously said an attack was carried out March 4 by multiple waves of planes and drone aircraft.

Al-Shishani, whose real name was Tarkhan Batirashvili, was described as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) equivalent of a Secretary of Defense. He was an ethnic Chechen from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

The U.S. government had a longstanding $5-million bounty for information leading to his being brought to justice.

In announcing the strike last week, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said it occurred near al-Shaddadeh, a former ISIS stronghold that was captured in February by the U.S.-backed, predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces. He said the ISIS leader held numerous senior military positions within the group, including “minister of war,” and was based in Raqqa, Syria.

See CBS News for full story

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Abu Omar the Chechen

Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili

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ISIS Commander (Al-Shishani) Explains Islamic State’s Plans

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Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili (Georgian: თარხან ბათირაშვილი; February 11, 1986 – March 14, 2016), known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani (Arabic: أبو عمر الشيشاني‎, Abū ‘Umar ash-Shīshānī , “Abu Omar the Chechen”)[9] or Omar al-Shishani, was a Georgian Kist jihadist who served as a commander for the Islamic State in Syria, and a former sergeant in the Georgian Army.[9]

A veteran of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, Batirashvili became a jihadist after being discharged from the Georgian military and served in various command positions with Islamist militant groups fighting in the Syrian Civil War. Batirashvili was previously the leader of the rebel group Muhajireen Brigade (Emigrants Brigade), and its successor, Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (Army of Emigrants and Supporters).

In May 2013, Batirashvili was appointed northern commander for ISIL, with authority over ISIL’s military operations and forces in northern Syria, specifically Aleppo, al-Raqqah, Latakia, and northern Idlib Provinces.By late 2013, he was the ISIL amir (leader) for northern Syria and was operating in and around Aleppo Province. He was also in charge of fighters from Chechnya and elsewhere in the Caucasus.[10] Units under his command participated in major assaults on Syrian military bases in and around Aleppo, including the capture of Menagh Airbase in August 2013.[3] He was considered “one of the most influential military leaders of the Syrian opposition forces”.[2] By mid-2014, Batirashvili was a senior ISIL commander and Shura Council member based in al-Raqqah, Syria.[10]

The US Treasury Department added Batirashvili to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on 24 September 2014.[11] On 5 May 2015, The U.S. State Department Rewards for Justice Program announced a reward up to US$5 million for information leading to his capture.[12][13]

Batirashvili died from his injuries several days after being the target of a 4 March 2016 U.S. Airstrike near the al-Shaddadi region in Northern Syria, according to U.S. officials

Abu Omar al-Shishani
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Omar al-Shishani as seen during the Syrian Civil War.
Birth name Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili
Born (1986-02-11)February 11, 1986[1][2]
Birkiani, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union[3]
Died March 14, 2016(2016-03-14) (aged 30)[4]
Raqqa, Syria
Allegiance Georgia (country) Georgian Armed Forces
(2006–2010)
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(2012–2013)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[5][6]
(May 2013– March 14, 2016)
Service/branch Military of ISIL
Rank Field Commander
Commands held Northern Syria
Battles/wars Russo-Georgian War[7]

Syrian Civil War[7][8]

Early life

Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili was born in the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia) in 1986. His father, Teimuraz Batirashvili, is an ethnic Georgian and Orthodox Christian. His mother was a Muslim Kist—an ethnic Chechen subgroup from Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge—of the Melkhi clan.[2][15][16]

Batirashvili grew up in the largely Kist-populated village of Birkiani, located in the Pankisi Gorge in northeast Georgia. In his youth, he worked as a shepherd in the hills above the gorge. Later in the 1990s, the Pankisi Gorge was a major transit point for rebels participating in the Second Chechen War, and it was there that Batirashvili reportedly came into contact with the Chechen rebels moving into Russia.[17] According to his father, a young Batirashvili secretly helped Chechen militants into Russia and sometimes joined them on missions against Russian troops.[3]

Service in the Georgian Armed Forces

After finishing high school, Batirashvili joined the Georgian Army and distinguished himself as master of various weaponry and maps, according to his former commander Malkhaz Topuria, who recruited him into a special reconnaissance group.[3] His unit was trained by US special forces, and Batirashvili was reportedly a “star pupil”.[18] He rose to the rank of sergeant in a newly formed intelligence unit, and during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War he served near the front line at the Battle of Tskhinvali, spying on Russian tank columns and relaying their coordinates to Georgian artillery units.[3] Batirashvili’s unit inflicted serious damage on the Russians, and among the actions they participated in was an attack on a column of the Russian 58th Army during which the commander of the 58th Army, General Anatoly Khrulyov, was wounded.[18]

Batirashvili was never decorated for his military service.[2] He was due to be promoted to become an officer, but in 2010 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. After spending several months in a military hospital, he was discharged on medical grounds. He tried and failed to re-enlist.[3][17] Upon returning home, he was unable to secure work in the local police force. Around this time, his mother also died of cancer. According to his father, he became “very disillusioned”.[3]

Militant activity

According to the Georgian Defense Ministry, Batirashvili was arrested in September 2010 for illegally harboring weapons and was sentenced to three years in prison.[3] He was allegedly released after serving about 16 months in early 2012 and immediately left the country. According to an interview on a jihadist website, Batirashvili said that prison transformed him; “I promised God that if I come out of prison alive, I’ll go fight jihad for the sake of God”, he said.[3]

Batirashvili reportedly told his father that he was leaving for Istanbul, where members of the Chechen diaspora were ready to recruit him to lead fighters inside war-ravaged Syria; an older brother had already gone to Syria some months before.[3] In an interview, Batirashvili said that he had considered going to Yemen and briefly lived in Egypt before ultimately arriving in Syria in March 2012.[19][20]

Muhajireen Brigade

His first command was the Muhajireen Brigade, an Islamist jihadist group made up of foreign fighters that was formed in the summer of 2012. His unit became involved in the Battle of Aleppo, and in October 2012 they assisted Al-Nusra Front in a raid on an air defense and Scud missile base in Aleppo.[8]

In December 2012, they fought alongside Al-Nusra Front during the overrunning of the Sheikh Suleiman Army base in Western Aleppo. In February 2013, together with the Tawhid Brigades and Al-Nusra Front, they stormed the base of the Syrian military’s 80th Regiment near the main airport in Aleppo.[21]

In March 2013, Kavkaz Center reported that the Muhajireen Brigade had merged with two Syrian jihadist groups called Jaish Muhammad and Kataeb Khattab to form a new group called Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, or Army of Emigrants and Helpers.[22] The group played a key role in the August 2013 capture of Menagh Air Base, which culminated in a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) driven by two of their members killing and wounding many of the last remaining Syrian Armed Forces defenders.[23] A branch of the Muhajireen Brigade was involved in the 2013 Latakia offensive.[24]

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

In Mid 2013, Batirashvili made an oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was appointed northern commander for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[25] In August 2013, Batirashvili released a statement announcing the expulsion of one of his commanders, Emir Seyfullah, and twenty-seven of his fighters. Batirashvili accused the men of embezzlement and stirring up the animosity of local Syrians against the foreign fighters by indulging in takfir—excommunication—against other Muslims.[26] However, Seyfullah denied these allegations and claimed that the dispute was due to his refusal to join ISIL with Batirashvili.[27] In late 2013, Batirashvili was replaced as leader of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar by another Chechen commander known as Salahuddin, as most of the Chechen members of the group did not support Batirashvili’s support of ISIL, due to their preexisting oath to the Caucasus Emirate militant group, and it’s leader Dokka Umarov.[2][6] By mid-2014, Batirashvili was a senior ISIL commander and Shura Council member operating in Ar-Raqqah, Syria.[25]

According to Batirashvili’s father, he called him once since he left for Syria to tell him that he was now married to a Chechen woman and had a daughter named Sophia.[15] For a time, Batirashvili lived with his family in a large villa owned by a businessman in the town of Huraytan just northwest of Aleppo.[28] He is said to have overseen the group’s prison facility near Ar-Raqqah, where foreign hostages may have been held.[29] By 2016, Batirashvili led special battalions of the Islamic State, in particular a unit named as ‘the group of the central directorate’ which appears to be the primary special forces strike force of the group.[30]

Reports of death or capture

Shishani has been reported as being killed on numerous occasions. In 2014, there were reports that he had been killed in various parts of Syria and Iraq in May, June, August and October, all of which proved to be untrue.[31] On 13 November 2014, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted on his personal Instagram account that al-Shishani had been killed, and posted a photo of a dead ginger-bearded man, however the man in the photograph was not Shishani, and Kadyrov later deleted the post. Before the post was deleted, the statement was picked up and reported on by many media outlets around the world.[31]

There were further reports of his death in 2015: in May,[32] June[33] and October.[34] On December 27, Russian News Agency TASS, quoting EIN news, claimed that American special forces had captured al-Shishani near Kirkuk in Iraq.[35] This report was denied by a Pentagon spokesman.[36]

In March 2016, several unnamed US Officials told CNN that Shishani may have been killed in a 4 March targeted airstrike, near the Syrian town of al-Shadadi; however, they were unable to confirm his death. Other officials said he had been “critically injured” in the strike, and that US military intelligence was assessing whether or not he had died.[37][38] On 12 March, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that al-Shishani had become clinically dead following the US airstrikes, with the ISIL commander in critical condition and unable to breathe without the use of life-support machines.[39][40] On 14 March 2016, two U.S. officials told CNN that there was confirmation al-Shishani had died after the airstrike

ISIS Execute Eight Dutch militants

ISIS executed eight of their Dutch members in east of Raqqa

ISIS has executed eight Dutch members of its own jihadist fighting force in in Maadan, Raqqa province, in Syria, after accusing them of desertion and mutiny (stock image)

The so-called Islamic State has killed eight Dutch members whom it accused of trying to desert, activists have said.

As cracks start to show and more and more foreign fighters become disillusioned  ISIS has executed 424 of its own fighters in its 20 month reign in Syria

“Daesh [Isis] executed eight Dutch fighters on Friday in Maadan, Raqqa province, after accusing them of attempting desertion and mutiny,” said Abu Mohammad, a member of the citizen journalist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), via Twitter on Monday.

RBSS has been documenting the group’s abuses in its de facto capital in northern Syria since April 2014. The Twitter group said tension between 75 Dutch militants – some of them of Moroccan origin – and Isis intelligence operatives from Iraq hadreached a new height over the past month.

Three other Dutch militants were arrested by Iraqi Isis members who accused them of wanting to flee, and one of the detainees was beaten to death during the interrogation, according to RBSS.

Isis leaders in Raqqa sent a delegate to solve the dispute with the Dutch cell’s enraged members, but they murdered the intermediary in vengeance, the citizen journalist group added.

The Isis leadership in Iraq then ordered the arrest of all the members of the Dutch group and imprisoned them in Tabaqa and Maadan in Syria before killing eight of them, RBSS said.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict, could not confirm the report. However it said three European militants of North African origin were killed in what Isis calls the Wilayet al-Furat – an area stretching across the Syrian-Iraqi frontier.

According to the Dutch secret services, 200 people from the Netherlands including 50 women have joined Isis in Syria and Iraq.

Tareena Shakil -Justice Served!

Tareena Shakil jailed for six years for joining IS

 

Jihadi mother who took her toddler to join ISIS ‘is attention seeker who stole another woman’s husband’

  • Tareena Shakil is the first British woman to be convicted of joining ISIS  

  • The 26-year-old took her toddler to war-torn Syria using her student loan
  • Her husband’s former wife said Shakil threatened to petrol bomb her home 
  • The woman said Shakil enjoyed a party lifestyle and smoked cannabis
  • Claims the day they met she ‘didn’t see a single Muslim bone in her body’

A mother who took her toddler son to Syria has been jailed for six years for joining the so-called Islamic State.

Tareena Shakil, 26, is the first woman from the UK to return from the self-declared caliphate to be convicted of the offence.

Sentencing her, Mr Justice Inman said she had shown no remorse and had known her son’s future would ultimately be “as an IS fighter”.

He told Shakil: “You allowed him to be photographed next to an AK47.”

‘Abhorrent’

Shakil sent photographs of her son in Syria, including one image showing him sitting next to an AK-47 machinegun. The caption of the picture describes him as 'Abu Jihad al-Britani'

Shakil, from Birmingham, but formerly of Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, admitted travelling to Syria but denied joining IS and encouraging acts of terrorism through messages posted on Twitter.

Passing sentence at Birmingham Crown Court, the judge said: “Most alarmingly you took your toddler son to Syria knowing how he would be used.

“You embraced your role in providing fighters of the future.”

Shakil posed the boy, who was 14 months old at the time, for pictures wearing an IS-branded balaclava, in what the judge described as one of the most “abhorrent” features of the case.

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Tareena Shakil

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Mr Justice Inman told Shakil she had “embraced Isis”, sending messages on the day she arrived in Syria saying she was not coming back to the UK, telling her family it was part of her faith to kill the murtadeen (apostates) and that she wanted to die a martyr.

He said it was clear she had been “radicalised” following online conversations with prominent members of the terrorist group.

Shakil, who was convicted on Friday, maintained she took her son to Syria, in October 2014, to escape an “unhappy family life”.

See BBC News for full story

 

 

ISIL – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant . History , Background & Documentaries

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL

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New Documentary 2015: The Islamic State HD

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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام‎), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, /ˈsɨs/) or the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham,[35]Daesh (داعش, Arabic pronunciation: [ˈdaːʕiʃ]), or Islamic State (IS),[36] is a Salafi jihadistextremist militant group and self-proclaimed Islamic state and caliphate, which is led by and mainly composed of Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria.[37] As of March 2015[update], it has control over territory occupied by ten million people[38] in Iraq and Syria, and has nominal control over small areas of Libya and Nigeria. The group also operates…

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Escape from Isis: The brutal treatment of women in Raqqa

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The Worlds most wanted IS Terrorists

 

The world’s most wanted Islamic State terrorists   

It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone that the leadership of Islamic State top  the list of the most wanted terrorists on  earth and I am in no doubt that eventually justice will catch up with them all  and they will ultimately pay for their heinous crimes against humanity.
If not in this life , then surely Karma will catch up with them in the next and instead of finding countless virgins waiting for them in paradise , these will be thrown into the eternal flames of hell and burn to the end of time.

Karma always collects its debt!

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Deir Ezzor

 

It the latest and endless crimes against humanity  Islamic State fighters  have ‘massacre and kidnap hundreds’ in eastern city of Deir Ezzor

Reports say group’s fighters slaughtered up to 300 people and took another 400 hostage in major offensive which saw it expand control in the .Islamic State militants have massacred up to 300 people and taken 400 hostage in a major offensive on the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, according to Syrian state media and opposition activists.

The state-run SANA news agency said that most of those killed in Saturday’s attacks were elderly people, women and children, while opposition activists said many of the victims were Syrian soldiers and pro-government militiamen and their families.

The killings are some of the worst carried out by the extremist group, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq and has killed thousands of people in both countries.

See Telegraph for full story

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The four most wanted Islamic State Terrorists

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 Leader of Islamic Sate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Leader of Islamic State

Bounty £10, 000,000

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أبو بكر البغدادي‎; born 28 July 1971 as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri)[8][9][10] is the leader[11][12][13] of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS or Daesh, an Islamic extremist group in western Iraq, Libya, northeast Nigeria, and Syria. He has been proclaimed by his followers to be a caliph.[14]

On 4 October 2011, the U.S. State Department listed al-Baghdadi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and announced a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to his capture or death.[14][15] Only the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has a larger reward offered for his capture or death (US$25 million).[16] The United States has also accused al-Baghdadi of kidnapping, enslaving, and repeatedly raping an American citizen who was later killed.[17]

Over time, there have been a number of reports of Al-Baghdadi’s death or injury; however, none has been verified.

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Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli

Deputy Leader of Islamic State

Bounty £7, 000,000

Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli (Arabic: عبد الرحمن مصطفى القادولي‎), alternatively known as Abu Ala al-Afri (أبو علاء العفري), was the Deputy leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It is believed he ascended to this position following unconfirmed reports of current leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being severely injured by an airstrike, leaving him unable to retain direct leadership of the group.[1]

On May 14, 2014, Abu Ala al-Afri was listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S Treasury Department.[2]

On May 5, 2015, the U.S. State Department announced a reward of up to US$7 million for information leading to al-Afri’s capture or death.[3]

The Iraqi Ministry of Defense reported that Abu Ala al-Afri had been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike in Tel Afar, on May 12, 2015, along with dozens of other ISIL militants that were present.[4] US Spokesmen were unable to corroborate the reports, with some unnamed officials expressing skepticism of the Iraqi claims

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Abu Mohammad al-Adnani

Spokesman for Islamic State

Bounty £5,000,000

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami (Arabic: أبو محمد العدناني‎. born 1977 or 1978), whose original name is Taha Subhi Falaha (طه صبحي فلاحة), is the official spokesperson and a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and its primary conduit for communicating official messages.[5][6] He is also the emir of ISIL in Syria.[3] The U.S. State Department Rewards for Justice Program announced a reward up to US$5 million for information leading to his capture on May 5, 2015.[2][7] On January 4, 2016, Abu Mohammad al-Adani was reportedly severely injured by an Iraqi airstrike on Barwana, near Hit, Iraq. It was reported that he had lost a large amount of blood and had been moved to Mosul for recovery

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Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili

Commander for Islamic State

Bounty £5,000,000

Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili (Georgian: თარხან ბათირაშვილი; January 11, 1986), known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani (Arabic: أبو عمر الشيشاني‎, Abū ‘Umar ash-Shīshānī , “Abu Omar the Chechen”)[8] or Omar al-Shishani, is a Georgian Kist jihadist who currently serves as a commander for the Islamic State in Syria, and a former sergeant in the Georgian Army.[8]

A veteran of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, Batirashvili became a jihadist after being discharged from the Georgian military and served in various command positions with Islamist militant groups fighting in the Syrian civil war. Batirashvili was previously the leader of the rebel group Katibat al-Muhajireen (Emigrants Brigade), also known as the Muhajireen Brigade, and its successor, Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (Army of Emigrants and Supporters).

In May 2013, Batirashvili was appointed northern commander for ISIL, with authority over ISIL’s military operations and ISIL’s forces in northern Syria, specifically Aleppo, al-Raqqah, Latakia, and northern Idlib Provinces. As of late 2013, he was the ISIL amir (leader) for northern Syria and was located in and around Aleppo Province. He was also in charge of fighters from Chechnya and elsewhere in the Caucasus.[9] Units under his command have participated in major assaults on Syrian military bases in and around Aleppo, including the capture of Menagh Airbase in August 2013.[3] He is considered “one of the most influential military leaders of the Syrian opposition forces”.[2] As of mid-2014, Batirashvili was a senior ISIL commander and Shura Council member based in al-Raqqah, Syria.[9]

The US Treasury Department added Batirashvili to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on 24 September 2014.[10] On 5 May 2015, The U.S. State Department Rewards for Justice Program announced a reward up to US$5 million for information leading to his capture.

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