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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIL terrorists execute 12 rival Takfiri militants in Syria
2015-06-26
[Iran Press TV] ISIL 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...
murderous Moslems have decapitated at least a dozen members of rival holy warrior groups in Syria on charges of fighting against them.

The ISIL turbans, in a video titled Repent Before You Are In Our Hands released on Thursday, claimed the murder of 12 captives near the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The prisoners, dressed in orange jumpsuits, are seen pinned to the ground and kneeling in a field before masked ISIL holy warriors force them to the ground and behead them with small knives.

ISIL said the 12 rival holy warriors were captured following fierce festivities in Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus. Three of the men were identified as members of the foreign-sponsored murderous Moslems group, Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
, which has been fighting Syrian government forces, and a fourth from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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Posted by:Fred

#1  isil seem to be Baathists/ex saddam boys backed by Syrian regime fighting Saudi/gulf backed islamists in my eyes.

proxy war between Syria and gulf atm.
Posted by: paul   2015-06-26 08:00  

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