{"id":8817,"date":"2014-05-01T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2014-05-01T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:55:54","slug":"jihadists-execute-seven-in-syria-two-by-crucifixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/jihadists-execute-seven-in-syria-two-by-crucifixion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jihadists execute seven in Syria, two by crucifixion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">BEIRUT: The jihadist Islamic State of\u00a0<a class=\"entityAnchor\" style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">Iraq<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a class=\"entityAnchor\" style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">Levant<\/a>\u00a0announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern\u00a0<a class=\"entityAnchor\" style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">Syria<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">ISIL, which has been disavowed even by Al-Qaeda, said it held the seven responsible for a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in the Euphrates Valley city of Raqa, which it rules with an iron fist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Ten days ago, attackers on a motorbike threw a grenade at an ISIL fighter at the Naim roundabout. A Muslim civilian had his leg blown off and a child was killed,&#8221; the group said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Our fighters immediately set up a roadblock and succeeded in capturing them. They were then able to detain other members of the cell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Britain-based\u00a0<a class=\"entityAnchor\" style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">Syrian Observatory<\/a>\u00a0for Human Rights posted a photograph of the two prisoners being crucified at the roundabout with passer-by walking past apparently unfazed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">One of them, blindfolded and with his head spattered with blood, had a banner wrapped round his body proclaiming: &#8220;This man fought against Muslims and threw a grenade in this place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The monitoring group said they were not the first crucifixions by ISIL. On April 16, its fighters executed a man for theft from a Muslim in the same way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">ISIL&#8217;s exactions caused a backlash against them from rival rebel groups, including Al-Qaeda&#8217;s official\u00a0<a class=\"entityAnchor\" style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">Syria<\/a>\u00a0affiliate Al-Nusra Front, who joined forces against its fighters from the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">ISIL has now been forced out of much of northern Syria but its fighters remain entrenched in Raqa &#8212; the only provincial capital entirely outside Syrian government control &#8212; and much of its surrounding province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The group also carried out three executions in the Raqa provincial town of Tal Abyad, on the Turkish border, and two more in the town of Saluq, the Observatory said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2014\/Apr-29\/254868-jihadists-execute-seven-in-syria-two-by-crucifixion.ashx#axzz30OY2S23y\">The Daily Star\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: The jihadist Islamic State of\u00a0Iraq\u00a0and the\u00a0Levant\u00a0announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern\u00a0Syria\u00a0on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion. ISIL, which has been disavowed even by Al-Qaeda, said it held the seven responsible for a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in the Euphrates Valley city of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[633,575,634,349,1424,22,163],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-execute","tag-human-rights","tag-jihadist","tag-middle-east-2","tag-syria","tag-takfiri","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8819,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions\/8819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}