...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
reallyMoslems....
" prison.
A Dusseldorf court has sentenced a German national to 10 years behind bars for murder on Friday. The man, named as Nils D.
...more fully Nils Donath, he joined ISIS in Syria in 2013, then was picked up by police immediately upon his return to Germany in 2015. They’ve been trying him for various kinds of bad behaviour ever since...
under German privacy laws, tortured a man to death at a prison run by the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) group in Manbij, Syria, in 2014.PROSECUTORS CALLED FOR LIFE SENTENCE
The now-31-year-old was a member of the "Lohberg Brigade", a group of Islamist turbans from the Dinslaken-Lohberg region, north of Dusseldorf. Members of the group had traveled to Syria in order to join the "IS".
Nils D. was guarding one of the terror group's prisons in Manbij, a city located near Syria's border with
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor.... According to the court, he took part in punishing a prisoner which resulted in the man's death.
He had initially been charged with the torture and murder of three prisoners, but was acquitted on two of those cases.
Prosecutor sought a life sentence for murder in conjunction with war crimes and being part of a terror group. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
the court took his into account the defendant's cooperation in solving other terror-related crimes.
Nils D. had already been sentenced to four and a half years for being an IS member in March 2016.
GERMAN NATIONALS GUILTY OF ATROCITIES
Hundreds of German nationals traveled to Syria to join the IS caliphate from 2014.
German prosecutors are working to hold German nationals accountable for crimes committed while the IS held sway in large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Last month, the Munich Higher Regional Court sentenced a German woman to 10 years imprisonment after hearing she stood idly by as a 5-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl was left to die of thirst in the sun.