August 28, 2014
Photos show gruesome Islamic State seizure of base
Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against the backdrop of an arid Syrian landscape, ...
Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded
At least four hostages held in Syria by the Islamic State, including an American journalist who was recently executed by the group, were waterboarded in the early part of their captivity, according to people familiar with the treatment of the kidnapped Westerners.
Where, one wonders, did they learn such shit?
Posted by b on August 28, 2014 at 08:18 PM | Permalink
School of the Americas?Oh, wait...
Posted by: citizen X | Aug 28, 2014 8:43:46 PM | 1
the usa doesn't like the direct competition whether it be in water-boarding, grabbing assets, shifting borders - you name it..isis is much like the usa without the veneer of diplomacy and pretty words..
Posted by: james | Aug 28, 2014 8:54:49 PM | 2
My theory is that they got their lessons in how to be a righteous jihadi from YouTube ... CNN this morning had a story about an ISIS Jihadi summer camp "" CNN Exclusive: A 13-year-old witness to ISIS' beheadings, crucifixion in Syria""
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/28/world/meast/syria-isis-atrocities-boy/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
This is a re-tread of several stories coming out of Pakistan 10 years ago ...
Oh, and numerous instances of photos being recycled -- most notoriously a beheaded child photo:
Others maintain that such claims are largely fiction and are just more of the usual exaggerated atrocity stories typically circulated as propaganda during wars to sway public opinion against one side (and in this case provide a prompt or justification for U.S. military intervention). For example, the picture of the decapitated girl shown above had been circulated two years earlier as an example of an atrocity committed by the Assad government in Syria when a helicopter gunship reportedly open fired on unarmed civilians.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/isis.asp#6f9VALHxtsFDZD5Q.99
Most crucifixions apparently are of corpses ... http://www.meforum.org/3833/syria-islamist-crucifixion
oh, and these things have been going on for months .... possibly longer ...
Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Aug 28, 2014 8:54:57 PM | 3
This is one big PR campaign. Orange jumpsuits - I think someone already mentioned in another thread as well - is such a "dog-whistle" for the American people. It brings up memories not just from Guantanamo (though that is very important) but also to common criminality.
Of course maybe its just a happy accident...
Posted by: guest77 | Aug 28, 2014 9:00:45 PM | 4
Sorry, but I'm just not going to look at gruesome photos but the NYT says they videotaped hours ...
NYT: ISIS Said to Kill 150 Syrian Captives in 2 Days, Videotaping the Horror.
Hours of video tape, but apparently they didn't release the executions (firing squad) just video of the dead bodies all in a row. The article actually discusses ISIS's use of the media. This incident is causing much protest by Assad supporters that the military is not doing enough -- enough to protect its own.
Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Aug 28, 2014 9:26:40 PM | 6
Oh, sorry to be serialing....
The NYT article says -- bafflingly -- that they (ISIS soldiers) too the captives on a long forced march half naked (very hot) while taunting them ... and exhausting them .. brought them back to camp locked them in rooms, then beat them and then brought them out and lined them up and shot them execution style ... anyone else wondering why they expended all that time and effort before just shooting them all? No torture (I guess they'd had their fill)
Yousef said the ISIS fighters made the soldiers run in the desert to tire them out, and then locked them in a room where they were beaten. “Then we took them out and shot them,” he said.
Are these guys really a bunch of hyperactive, out of control speed freaks?
Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Aug 28, 2014 9:39:19 PM | 7
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html
Just ask Senator John McCain (R) - AZ. I am sure he knows how to deactivate the runaway "beast" ISIL.
*As far as initial seed money for ISIL the msm might want to question former Viceroy to Iraq Paul Bremer.
Posted by: really | Aug 28, 2014 9:42:27 PM | 8
"Are these guys really a bunch of hyperactive, out of control speed freaks? "
There have always been rumors of heavy drug use by these "Islamists" (Irony noted). No idea if it is true of course.
Posted by: guest77 | Aug 28, 2014 10:34:17 PM | 9