Posted on 05/09/2017 10:27:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
ISIS has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the US-based SITE monitoring website reported on Tuesday.
The Russian Defense Ministry and the FSB security service were not immediately available for comment.
The 12-minute Russian-language video, released on the day Russia celebrates the anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany with military parades, showed the man dressed in a black jump suit kneeling in a desert scene and urging other Russian agents to surrender.
"This idiot believed the promises of his state not to abandon him if he was captured," a narrator says in the recording, before a bearded man beheaded him with a knife.
The authenticity of the recording and the identity of the man could not immediately be verified, nor was it clear when the killing occurred.
Russian forces are backing Syrian President Bashar Assad in his war with rebels and militants seeking to oust him. The video showed scenes of what it described as the aftermath of Russian bombing raids in Syria.
The Russian defense ministry says about 30 Russian servicemen have been killed since the start of the Kremlin's operation there in September 2015.
Not just isis. This is islam.
Anyone who would put their butt in the air for allah is similarly a sadist or an outright idiot.
Apparently these ISIS twits don’t know about what the Russians did in Lebanon back in the 1980s when kidnappers decided to go after Russian targets.
Some people just never learn.
Exactly! What happened in Lebanon in the 1980s when some of their diplomats were kidnapped with one getting murdered is the perfect example.
I would assume that Pres. Trump has cut off soetoro's supply line. They can only be getting stuff from the gulf through Turkey.
They have no air force or navy, limited armor and artillery.
Supposedly there has only been about 30,000 and I would guess that many have been killed.
Subhuman savages.
Really bad idea. Russians take this very personally, and will immediately launch a murderous revenge retaliation. And it will be done in such a way as to leave a lasting impact on the offenders. That is, not a generic revenge, but one that will leave them shaking in their boots.
Expect it in the next few weeks, and it will be a nasty.
Putin is a coward. He will do nothing.
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