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ISIS Releases Video Showing ‘Russian Officer Beheaded in Syria’
Al Arabiya ^

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: isis; johnmccain; obamalegacy; syria; tussia
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1 posted on 05/09/2017 10:27:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Dumb move !

ML/NJ

2 posted on 05/09/2017 10:29:01 AM PDT by ml/nj
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And that’s why you should keep one bullet for yourself as ISIS comes in the door.


3 posted on 05/09/2017 10:30:45 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Very bad move the Russians will find out who their families are and will torture them to death.


4 posted on 05/09/2017 10:32:13 AM PDT by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: nickcarraway

When fighting ISIS, I have just one piece of advice and it comes from Kipling, just replace Afghanistan with Syria.... same/same

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.


5 posted on 05/09/2017 10:32:50 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: DarthVader
"Very bad move the Russians will find out who their families are and will torture them to death."

This is ISIS, chances are they aren't even from Syria. Could be Chechyns, Iraqis, Americans, Europeans, who knows...
6 posted on 05/09/2017 10:35:00 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: ml/nj

Probably not. Russia is only in Syria because Iran ordered them to save Assad. They don’t have wherewithal to go after ISIS, other than what’s required to complete the Ayatollah’s ,mission.


7 posted on 05/09/2017 10:36:25 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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There should be hell to pay!


8 posted on 05/09/2017 10:37:40 AM PDT by jch10 (Don't go along to get along!)
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To: ml/nj

Unlike Western nations, Rooskies to not mess around when it comes to incidents like this. There will many extended families wiped from existence and the debut of the Czarina of all bombs coming to Syria.


9 posted on 05/09/2017 10:38:04 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan is a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: nickcarraway

But all these people who want the US to overthrow Assad say Assad is soft on ISIS...

How can ISIS be so ungrateful to Assad and the Russians? /sarc


10 posted on 05/09/2017 10:38:40 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: nickcarraway

Different culture.

To celebrate or at least accept diversity we must not be judgement about be-headings or female (child) genital mutilation.

We can learn a lot from them.

All cultures are equal.....?????

Lecture on evils of Christianity from Obama in 3-2-1


11 posted on 05/09/2017 10:40:36 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Trump "Mexico will pay for the Wall! Mark my words")
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Cause ISIS is 10 feet tall. Can anyone point to a time they have ever fought against an actual military and done well? Their fame has been rolling into town in Toyota trucks and being brutal to unarmed victims, and occasionally capturing some hapless pilot of do-gooder who wants to work in their midst.

They have shown a marked level of cowardice on the rare times when an organized military deploys against them. Making evacuation agreements and leaving in a convoy.
Anyone remember when they pulled up with thousands a few miles from a Marine base with 300 grunts. We were all hearing how it was going to be a Khe Sanh, etc.
They never seemed to get around to attacking two companies of Marines.

Time to demystify these islamofarts.


12 posted on 05/09/2017 10:41:47 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

it does not matter the Russian Intel forces will get them.


13 posted on 05/09/2017 10:48:04 AM PDT by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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“Probably not. Russia is only in Syria because Iran ordered them to save Assad. They don’t have wherewithal to go after ISIS,”

The grand tradition of thinking Russia is a paper tiger. Lots have made that error. Like us, they can bring tremendous power to bear when pissed off. They cannot deploy well worldwide, but they are more dangerous than you imagine over in their own backyard. And have a mentality of enduring hardships to support that. Don’t kid yourself.
And the one thing they truly despise is an outright insult or being belittled. They have an absolute complex over that.
If this video is real, there will be very real consequences. And they aren’t hung up like us on who is to blame like its an episode of CSI. They will put the brutal family hurt on someone else who does know who it is.


14 posted on 05/09/2017 10:53:22 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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“it does not matter the Russian Intel forces will get them.”

They have a long history of knowing how to apply brutal pressure to those they want to send a message too.


15 posted on 05/09/2017 11:04:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: slapshot

That’s right, Russian ROE’s don’t include rubber bullets and grief counseling.


16 posted on 05/09/2017 11:10:09 AM PDT by Fireone (No more Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons, or Obamas....ever!)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

“And that’s why you should keep one bullet for yourself as ISIS comes in the door.”

As did Ryan Lock, February 2017....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/briton-who-died-in-syria-shot-himself-to-avoid-becoming-isis-hostage


17 posted on 05/09/2017 11:12:26 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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"Can anyone point to a time they have ever fought against an actual military and done well?"

Hasn't happened. They have only done well against civilians and ill trained Iraqi forces, not the current Iraqi forces which seem to be much better. That doesn't mean that ISIS can't pick off the occasional Russian or American (I hope not!) military personnel on a convoy or something. Perhaps a downed pilot. That's why my advice is, don't be taken alive, go down fighting. I'd rather do that than be a prisoner, You know you'll end up on a video getting your head cut off.
18 posted on 05/09/2017 11:14:08 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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19 posted on 05/09/2017 11:26:38 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: DesertRhino

I’m pretty sure that all the ragheads are aware of the old saying, “PICK A FIGHT WITH THE BEST, DIE LIKE THE REST”.


20 posted on 05/09/2017 11:56:43 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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