Archive for month: November, 2015

The sickening mass execution video was posted online by an anti-ISIS activist based in Yemen and quickly started to draw condemnation from social media users shocked by the atrocities.

However the footage is believed to have filmed in late August 2014 and the victims are prisoners of war who were caught by ISIS after the jihadi group overran the Assad held Tabqa airbase in Syria.

Forced to lie side-by-side and with their faces in the dirt, the video shows about 200 Assad soldiers fighting in the Syrian Arab Army stretched out in a long line to the left and right.

Behind them, at least a dozen gunmen armed with assault rifles and handguns stand poised and ready to fire.

One militant then begins firing at point blank range – shooting each prisoner individually as he makes along the row of victims.

Others beside him also open fire, mostly using their machine guns, and the area is filled with dust, obscuring much of the bloodshed.

The video is believed to have been filmed close to Tabqa airbase after the strategic site was overrun by militants.

ISIS continues to control a swathe of territory, including Raqqa, the capital of the terrorists’ self-proclaimed caliphate.   

ISIS is known to have carried out mass executions of prisoners in the past. In one instance, 1,700 Iraqi military cadets were slaughtered in a mass killing that lasted an entire day and night.

Grisly footage of the killings – likely to rank among the group’s worst atrocities – showed executions on an industrial scale near Tikrit in Iraq.

Young men were filmed falling from trucks and pleading for their lives before being lay down in shallow graves and sprayed with bullets.

Others were shot individually and their bodies dumped into the Tigris River, while an excavator was required to shift vast piles of bodies as the executions continued into the night.

In addition to the mass killings, the terrorists have also attempted to invent new ways in which to murder people.

Public beheadings, dismemberment, and throwing people from tall buildings are a common occurrence within ISIS territory.

Other killings are held in areas of significance. After the jihadis overran the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, in May, they killed dozens inside its ancient Roman amphitheatre.

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The conference was attended by many remarkable figures, who are specialized in Human Rights, from around the world, such as Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Iran, France, Switzerland, Germany, America and some other countries.

A stately ceremony was performed, begun with reciting holy verses of the Noble Quran, followed by a speech delivered by His Eminence sheikh Abdul-Mehdi al-Karbala’e, Secretary-General of the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine, in which he said:

The conference of this year will be centered on a substantive issue concerning the Human Rights system. This conference is an initiative through which we can let the world know about the epistemic treasure that Ahlul-Bayat (A’) left for us and we can easily find that in the treatise of Human Rights which is written by Imam Ali al-Sajjad, son of Imam Hussain (A’).

He also said that the Human Rights system is fundamental to the societies to regulate the social system humanitarianly, economically, socially, and educationally; especially nowadays where we live the struggle for applying the Human Rights system. He added that the problem being confronted in terms of applying this system comes after defining the references on which the Human Rights system is based.

He said further that the noticeable tense political and social controversy along with the attempts of ascendency, control, and oppressing people made it urgent to codify and apply the Human Rights system which ensures providing food and accommodation; it is important for the social, economic, and psychological security of human beings, and therefore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was officially announced in 1948.

Remarkable figures also delivered speeches through which they expressed their gratitude for holding this conference, in addition to casting light upon taking the treatise of Rights of Imam al-Sejjad (A’) into consideration and it should be interpreted realistically.

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The Pentagon is about to get a $5 million fund to pay the families of civilians killed by 3,586 American airstrikes reportedly targeting Daesh terrorists in the Arab country.

This is while the US refuses to publicly acknowledge killing or wounding any civilians.

The $5 million sum, buried deep in the annual defense budget bill the House passed Thursday, is supposed to be used in Iraq when the US military harms a civilian or destroys their property.

However, no such fund exists for Syria, where because of the escalating conflict, it is more difficult to assess the damage caused by American bombs.

So far, the Pentagon has only acknowledged killing a few of Syrian civilians despite viable reports suggesting that the death toll in Iraq and Syria is well within the hundreds zone.

The fund for Iraq falls under a program that is actually intended for Afghanistan– dubbed the Commanders’ Emergency Response Program (CERP).

Under CERP, US commanders can approve up to $2,500 per person or damaged property, but higher-ups are allowed to sign bigger sums if needed.

This means the US could hand out up to 2,000 “condolence payments” to Iraqis over the next year.

The new annual defense policy bill authorizes $10 million to be spent on CERP in Afghanistan in the 2016 fiscal year.

US Congress is also allowing up to $5 million of that funding to be used for condolence payments in Iraq, should American “combat operations” lead to “damage, personal injury, or death.”

The Senate is expected to pass the bill this week, after which it will go to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.

As of November 3, the US has reportedly carried out 3,586 airstrikes in Iraq and 2,578 Syria.

More than one million Iraqis were killed as a result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in 2003. It is not yet clear if Washington is also willing to admit fault for those deaths as well.

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In a ceremony held at A’zam mosque of Qom on Sunday, the fortieth day after the funeral of clergymen passed away in Mina tragedy was commemorated.

The event was jointly organized by Iranian Leader’s Representative Office in Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs, Seminary Services Center, The Custodianship of Qom’s Holy Shrine, and the Governor General of Qom Province.

Many senior clerics attended the event among them were Grand Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani, Grand Ayatollah Shobeiri Zanjani, Ayatollah Bushehry, and Ayatollah Moghtadaei.

The unjust massacre of pilgrims in Mina will soon entangle the Al-Saud House, said Hosseini Khorasani one of the figures who gave speech in the ceremony.

He added that it is a pity that those who call themselves as the Custodians of Holy Shrines of Mecca and Medina dodged a simple extension of sympathy to Muslims of the world who suffered losses in Mina tragedy.

‘It is because of the hallucination of wealth and illusory power that Saudis feel unrestrained from principles of reason, humanity, and international etiquette,’ the cleric affirmed.

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