ISIS prisoners forced to re-enact alleged crimes and arrest process before beheading
The Islamic State forced five captive men charged of espionage to re-enact their alleged crimes up to their arrest before beheading them in a publicized execution video.
Heavy.com uploaded the recent execution and propaganda video of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group shortly after the militant group released it on June 28 on ISIS terrorist channels.
The video "Story of Slaughter" runs for 21 minutes and introduced the five men accused for spying against the terrorist group and for working with the New Syrian Army, the group that launched an attack on an ISIS-controlled town near the Iraqi border earlier that day.
The video captured the five men's re-enactment of their alleged crimes in a fashion that's reminiscent of a Western crime drama. The re-enactment led to their arrests by the militants and ultimately to their beheading after which the executioners stuck the decapitated heads on metal spikes.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) identified the five men as Asim Hammam al-Debs, Harith Ahmad Jalid, Muhannad Ahmad al-Mshawwah, Abdul Rahman Ahmad al-Ashaab and Mohannad Obaid Al-Hussein.
The watchdog also identified the town of Al-Bokamal in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor as the location for the public execution. The prisoners dressed in orange jumpsuits, hands tied behind their backs, and knelt in line on the dessert sand. The five executioners dressed in their signature all-black combat gear and balaclavas.
SOHR translated the unmasked lead executioner's threat addressed to Christians, "We tell you O Crusaders –that– we are coming inevitably God willing, and As for you, agents of the Crusaders and eyes of apostates, O you who are sitting –among– Muslims, we say to you that our bayonets are hungry for your blood -so- we will not leave an eye spying on Muslims without gouging it out , nor a head for one of your spies without tearing it out; –as a– victory for the religion of ALLAH and defending it (he mean defending the religion)."