Posted on 08/28/2014 9:44:53 AM PDT by GonzoII
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have executed dozens of members of the Syrian army they captured after seizing an air base in the northeast of the country, a group monitoring the violence said on Thursday.
ISIL, a radical offshoot of al-Qaeda, stormed Tabqa air base on Sunday after days of clashes with the army and said it had captured and killed soldiers and officers in one of the fiercest confrontations yet between the two sides.
The capture of Tabqa, the Syrian army's last foothold in that area, and apparent killing of large numbers of its soldiers shows ISIL's grip on the north of the country. The group has also seized territory in eastern Syria and large areas of neighboring Iraq in recent months.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict using sources on the ground, said the soldiers who were executed had been trying to escape from the airport when they were captured by militant fighters of the ISIL.
A video posted online by ISIL supporters on Thursday appeared to show members of the group making scores of Syrian army captives walk and run through the desert in their underwear.
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Brutal dictators have their place in this flawed world.
The only one taken alive seems to be the traitor and deserter Bergdahl, who voluntarily turned himself over to the Taliban.
Forty FBI agents on the way!
Now there's an oxymoron for you.
Not only that, they’re John McCain’s friends, as seen by the pic of him posing with a bunch of “moderate” opposition to Assad. Gee, and maybe that’s why most of us dumb knuckle draggers here didn’t want the US to help the “moderate” opposition. Of course that was dumb because we all know how good the Mahdi’s humint is and how they can separate the grain kernels from the rat turds (sarc. Off).
He needs a reality check for sure.
Losing your head in America doesn’t literally mean losing your head.
Lies, all lies for deception. We need to see ACTUAL footage of them shooting them. Other than that, it’s a Nathan Bedford Forest trick of making you THINK they killed them.
How can a person so stupid stand upright?
At the very least, you’d think they would fight to the death. Surrender is not much of an option with these savages.
These soldiers choose to be complicit in their own murders much like many Europeans during WWII.
Whoever doesn’t fight to the death anyway?
This make Hillary and John McCain sooo happy. It was all about that bad old Assad!!
> Why would anyone surrender to ISIS?
>> Good point! I’d rather choose my own manner of death.
That’s because you are an American. American don’t surrender.
ISIS does not take prisoners — what will we do when we catch these bearded monsters alive?
Are we expanding facilities at Gitmo yet?
Better medical, kitchen and cafeteria facilities, fresh bedding and soccer stadium?
And please give them a “peaceful” edition of the Koran.
Americans don’t surrender? That will be news to the Great Surrender Generation of 1941 to 1953. At least 130,000 US POWS.
Nowadays there are very few.
The hero of Benghazi will not put terrorists in GITMO. He will have another country jail them and a year or two latter they will be released.
Waht was the quote by Barry regarding the future and slandering Islam?
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