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US-backed Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) reportedly killed the Islamic State executioner Talip Akkurt, known by his nom de guerre Abu Talha al Turki, who burned two Turkish soldiers alive in Syria in 2017. Al Turki was reported dead following a June 7 SDF attack in Deir Ezzor’s Hajin town. Since Feb. 2018, al Turki was on the Turkish police’s Blue List of wanted fugitives with a bounty of 1.5 million Turkish lira ($320,000) on his head. The Turkish government’s failure to track al Turki, and the SDF’s putative success in eliminating him, could be an awkward development for Ankara. Turkey...

The leader of the Muslim group who defended ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi has sparked further outrage after he refused to condemn the stoning women. Asim Qureshi, the director of Cage, was last night quizzed about extremist positions advocated by Muslim scholars - including female genital mutilation, domestic violence and stoning as a punishment for adultery. But Mr Qureshi, appearing on the BBC's This Week programme, failed to speak out against the practices - while also defending the right of Muslims to wage jihad. It comes after he defended the London-raised fanatic Emwazi - unmasked as the infamous fanatic 'Jihadi John'...

Iraq crisis: the bare faced ISIS executioner who spreads terror with his open killing • Shakir Wahiyib is a feared enforcer for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham who does not cover up his face in videos of his killings In an army full of masked, black-clad figures, he is the one man who is never shy to show his face. But for those unlucky enough to cross him, the face of Shakir Wahiyib, a feared enforcer for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, is often the last they will ever see. The star of a series of...

Following are excerpts from an interview with Hajj Abd Al-Nabi, the official executioner of Egypt, which was posted on the Internet on September 8, 2013. Hajj Abd Al-Nabi: I am the executioner of the Arab Republic of Egypt. I hold the rank of chief warrant officer in the police and the prison authority. I am Egypt's executioner, responsible for carrying out the death penalty. [...] I love people, and people love me, but when I am doing my job, I am carrying out the law of Allah. [...] When it comes to carrying out our my job, I am tough....

"We can understand why Obama is doing this," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about the president's 'kill list.' "Why they clearly leaked this to the press. They want obama to look tough, hawkish and part of that is what is happening around the world. You look at massacres in Syria, he is standing by. You look at negotiations with Iran over it nukes, they're going nowhere. There is a collapse in Baghdad. Look at the way that the Russians are treating the United States. Putin dissing Obama personally by not showing up at the G8 summit or the NATO summit...

A 73-year-old man shot dead five people around Yuma, Arizona, before turning a gun on himself, police said. Another victim was flown about 180 miles northeast to a Phoenix-area hospital after being seriously injured, Yuma Police Sgt. Clint Norred said in a joint press release with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office. According to Yuma police, an "elderly male" went into a business in the city limits and shot an adult male. Police Chief Jerry Geier later identified this victim as Jerrold Shelley, a local attorney. The four others were killed in greater Yuma County, where the other person was injured,...

Kansas Abortionist George Tiller was shot today as he was going to Church.

In 2007 there were 1,200 executions world wide, 552 of those were carried out in Muslim Countries in the Middle East. Being an executioner in those countries is a "honored position" Maybe that's why they take the time to educate their children. Just like many of us they like to take their kids to work: Once I took with me one of my children, who is not here right now. I had to chop off the hand of a thief, and I took him with me. I took Muhammad, who is younger than Faysal. After we returned, he went to...

>The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily Thursday, 5, June, 2003 (05, Rabi` al-Thani, 1424) Kingdom’s Leading Executioner Says: ‘I Lead a Normal Life’ Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News Staff —   JEDDAH, 5 June 2003 — Saudi Arabia’s leading executioner Muhammad Saad Al-Beshi will behead up to seven people in a day. “It doesn’t matter to me: Two, four, 10 — As long as I’m doing God’s will, it doesn’t matter how many people I execute,” he told Okaz newspaper in an interview. He started at a prison in Taif, where his job was to handcuff and blindfold the...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 – Saddam Hussein is getting something he didn't give his victims - a fair trial. Saddam's trial, which began in Baghdad today, is being held under the rule of law and is in accordance with international norms, U.S. State Department and National Security Council officials said on background here today. The Iraqi courts are handling the prosecution, Iraqi investigative judges are handling the evidence, and Saddam is being charged under laws passed by the Transitional National Assembly. Iraqi laws will be followed, officials said. However, both the prosecutors and defense lawyers are receiving outside help, as...

HER dusty file was one of hundreds of thousands of documents stacked in a house in a wealthy neighbourhood of Baghdad. Asma Rasheed married a pilot, lived comfortably in the presidential compound of Saddam Hussein and directed a microbiology programme that was not supposed to exist. Rasheed’s light blue folder has emerged from a huge archive seized by forces loyal to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, which opposed Saddam. The archive — a dark who’s who of Iraq — reveals the tiniest details of blandishments and humiliations by a paranoid regime that shared the Nazis’ obsession...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S.-led coalition troops arrested a man authorities identified as a suspected executioner for Saddam Hussein in a raid north of Baghdad, and four Iraqis were killed in suspicious blasts, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.</p> <p>The suspect and another man, described as a former general, were seized in an overnight raid in Ba'qubah, a town more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. The men's identities were not released.</p>

The more you look at James C. Kopp, the less he looks like a loner. Authorities say they have no proof that anyone joined Kopp in plotting the October 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian of Amherst, or that a wide conspiracy aided Kopp during his 21/2 years on the lam. Nevertheless, investigators and abortion rights advocates said Kopp had help, maybe before the shooting and certainly afterward. "There must have been a support network that moved him to Mexico to Heathrow to Manchester to Scotland to Ireland," and finally to France, where he was captured in March 2001,...

Will John Muhammad the racist, American-hater, be put on the fast track to the death chamber just like Timothy McVeigh the racist, American government-hater? Who wants to bet that he will NOT?