IS burns four Iraqi Shiite fighters alive

AFP, BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group strung up four Iraqi Shiite fighters with chains and burned them alive, according to footage posted online, the latest gruesome execution video from the jihadists.
The victims—identified as fighters in the pro-government Popular Mobilisation forces from southern Iraq—were suspended from a swingset by chains attached to their hands and feet, then set on fire.
IS, which overran large parts of Iraq last year and still controls much of the country’s west, said the murders were in revenge for the alleged burning of four men by pro-government forces.
“Now retribution has come, for today, we will attack them as they attacked us, and punish them as they punished us,” a masked militant says in the video, which was not dated and did not say where the burnings took place.

 

IS burns four Iraqi Shiite fighters alive

AFP, BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group strung up four Iraqi Shiite fighters with chains and burned them alive, according to footage posted online, the latest gruesome execution video from the jihadists. The victimsidentified as fighters in the pro-government Popular Mobilisation forces from southern Iraqwere suspended from a swingset by chains attached to their hands and feet, then set on fire. IS, which overran large parts of Iraq last year and still controls much of the countrys west, said the murders were in revenge for the alleged burning of four men by pro-government forces. Now retribution has come, for today, we will attack them as they attacked us, and punish them as they punished us, a masked militant says in the video, which was not dated and did not say where the burnings took place.