Raqqa, Syria – Islamic State fighters executed scores of Syrian soldiers captures when the militants seized an airbase in the province of Raqqa at the weekend, according to a video posted on You Tube on Thursday.
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The video, confirmed as genuine by an Islamic State fighter,
showed the bodies of dozens of men lying face down wearing nothing but their underwear. They were stretched out in a line that appeared to be dozens of metres long.
A separate pile of bodies was shown nearby. Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.
The caption beneath it said the dead numbered 250. An Islamic State fighter in Raqqa told Reuters via the Internet: “Yes, we have executed them all.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors violence in the war, put the death toll at more than 120.
Islamic State, a radical offshoot of al Qaeda, stormed Tabqa airbase on Sunday after days of clashes with the army and said it had captured and killed soldiers and officers in one of the bloodiest confrontations yet between the two sides.
The capture of Tabqa, the Syrian army’s last foothold in that area, and apparent parading and killing of large numbers of its soldiers shows how Islamic State has cemented its grip on the north of the country.
The video begins by showing the captives apparently being marched in the desert with their hands behind their heads and watched by armed men. An Islamic State fighter repeatedly shouts out “Islamic State”, to which the men reply “It shall remain”.
What a massacre! What a holocaust! What a human tragedy! What a silence from the world! What a lack of demonstrations! What a dumb look from the UN!
islam at its finest.whats amazing is that people think that these savages are in need of DEMOCRACY.
what a great religion, a religion of peace! ha ha ha!
If I were a Muslim I would hang my head in shame and burn the Koran. These people are just killers who love to kill and enjoy it.
ISIS is in the Torah – in the last prophecy of Balaam in parshah Balak;
He declaimed a parable and said: “Oh! Who can survive when He imposes these!
The Artscroll commentary states: Having spoken of Assyria, Balaam exclaimed that it would be extremely hard for people to stay alive when G-d permits that kingdom to impose it’s domination over the region and perpetrate its cruelties on the subjugated nations. According to Sforno, this is a reference to the travails that will accompany the emergence of the Messianic era.
I used to work overseas with a Muslim from Gaza. He now lives in one of the US southern states as a foreign student recruiter for a state university. I asked him once, “Where are all the ‘moderate’ Muslims?” He laughed and said, “Don’t you know? A moderate Muslim is one who ran out of bullets!!” Kach hayah ha’maysah.
The world will say little, do nothing – and then find a way to blame Israel and the Jews for their troubles.