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Syrian rebels accidentally decapitate the wrong man, ask for public for ‘understanding and forgivene
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| | November 15, 2013
| Richard Spencer,
Posted on 01/19/2014 12:15:22 PM PST by dennisw
Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to Al-Qaeda have asked for understanding and forgiveness for cutting off and putting on display the wrong mans head.
In a public appearance filmed and posted online, members of Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, one brandishing a knife, held up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo. They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for President Bashar Al-Assad.
But the head was recognised from the video as belonging to a member of Ahrar Al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist rebel group that often fights alongside ISIS though it does not share its Al-Qaeda ideology.
After inquiries, an ISIS spokesman admitted he was Mohammed Fares, an Ahrar commander reported missing some days ago. This could not be independently confirmed, but in an earlier video of a speech by Mr Fares he bears a close resemblance to the severed head in the later video. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which monitors deaths in the Syrian conflict, and several activists on social media, said that ISIS misunderstood comments that the man made referring to the Imams Ali and Hussein, the founding fathers of Shiism.
The ISIS spokesman, Omar Al-Qahtani, made reference to a story in which Mohammed said Allah would forgive a man who killed a believer in error. He said that Mr Fares had been injured and, thinking he had been captured by members of the Shia militia against which he was fighting, asked them to kill him in terms misunderstood by the ISIS members when in fact he meant taking him to hospital.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedasyria; apology; beheading; codepinkmia; democratscandals; friendsofjohnkerry; friendsofobama; iran; iraq; islamicimperialism; islamist; islamonazism; lebanon; muslimworld; obamaforeignpolicy; obamascandals; redcrossmia; sunni; syria; warcrimes; waronterror; whywefight
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:15:22 PM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
ruh-roh Sucks to be the decapitated jihadi
2
posted on
01/19/2014 12:16:30 PM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: dennisw
And that is why you should never cut off someone’s head.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:17:10 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: dennisw
ISIS spokesman: We’re sorry. Our bad.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:18:30 PM PST
by
servo1969
To: dennisw
These barbarians are beyond belief, cognition or even humor. Just....shiite.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:21:01 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: servo1969
Defenistration happens.
A simple mistake anyone could have made.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:21:24 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: dennisw
I wonder if this voodoo religion actually proposes a punishment for cutting off the wrong guy’s head . . .
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:22:52 PM PST
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: tet68
A simple mistake anyone could have made.
Apparently the rebel thought he was captured by the regime forces, so he started saying things only a regime loyalist would say.
To: tet68
Remember kids, “KILL ME!” is NOT how you ask to go to
hospital.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:23:52 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: dennisw
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:24:36 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: dennisw
I hope people realize that NO ONE in this country has to worry ONE iota about the middle east. This behavior is typical. They screw each other so much and so badly that all we Americans have to do is stand by and watch the chaos.
I lived in Saudi Arabia five years and my American friends used to "worry" about me. It didn't take us long to figure out that WE were the safe ones. The ones in trouble were the local yokels...that was their home and they had NO escape.
To: andyk
“Sorry” doesn’t quite cut it for the poor victim ...
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:26:46 PM PST
by
mikrofon
("What Has Been Cleaved Cannot Be Uncleaved.")
To: JohnBrowdie
It looks like it offers mulligans if it was an error in (urgggh) “good faith.”
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:27:12 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Oops, only 71 virgins for them.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:28:41 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: cloudmountain
Your story sounds odd, compared with what you have claimed in the past, that Muslims are broad minded. (Though relative prosperity might tone down their religious fervor, granted.)
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:28:51 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: tet68
So 72 mulligans until a joyless eternity? ;-)
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:29:22 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: dennisw
Man, I couldn’t begin to tell you how many times this has happened to me. Embarrassing as hell, but you get over it.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:29:44 PM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: dennisw
Did they rape and stone his family when they complained?
Pray America is Waking
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:30:27 PM PST
by
bray
(http://www.braylog.com/id47.html)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I kind of figure it’s one girl who’s a virgin
71 times, after that she turns into your mother in law.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:31:39 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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