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Syrian rival jihadi group, Jaysh al-Islam, execute ISIS fighters in brutal role reversal video

 

TERROR group ISIS have been given a taste of their own brutal medicine after a rival jihadist group in Syria released a brutal video showing the execution of 18 ISIS members.

 

The video, which runs for 19 minutes, shows members of Syrian rebel group Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam) dressed in orange and standing menacingly over captured ISIS fighters, chained together with ankle and hand shackles, and dressed in black.

 

The colours are a sick role reversal on the usual ISIS murder videos, which typically showcase ISIS fighters wearing black while their victims are dressed in orange.

 

The production mimics many aspects of the ISIS group’s own execution videos, with similar sound effects and visuals.

 

In the video, Jaysh al-Islam fighters say the ISIS fighters are being executed in part as revenge for the deaths of at least three of the rebel group’s members, who were beheaded by ISIS.

 

The rebel group also refers to a major battle it fought with ISIS in February. It accuses ISIS of being allied with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime against its fighters and those of other Islamist rebel groups.

 

The video includes starkly sectarian language, accusing ISIS of betraying Sunni Muslims and allying with Shiite Muslims and “Nusayris,” a derogatory terms for the Alawite sect to which Assad belongs.

 

http://www.news.com.au/world/syrian-rival-jihadi-group-jaysh-al-islam-execute-isis-fighters-in-bruta...

 

Can it get any worse? Will the West get blamed for the rise of Jaysh al-Islam?

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Syrian rival jihadi group, Jaysh al-Islam, execute ISIS fighters in brutal role reversal video

 

 

Can it get any worse? Will the West get blamed for the rise of Jaysh al-Islam?


I doubt it.  They are killing ISIS fighters for their own reasons.  The enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.

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it just shows why we should never, ever have got involved in the first place - it's like trying to kill a hydra.

 

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