2015: Khaled al-Asaad, Palmyra archaeologist

ExecutedToday.com ^ | August 18, 2020 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

Syrian archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad was beheaded by the Islamic State on this date in 2015 for refusing them the ancient artifacts of his native Palmyra.

Eighty-two years old — Palmyra was still a French colony at the time of this birth — Al-Asaad was involved in excavations around that city throughout his adult life. He became the custodian of the archaeological site in 1963 and held the post for 40 years.

When the Salafist militant army rolled up on his oasis city that spring.* he helped to evacuate the town’s museum and Daesh put him to torture to extract the whereabouts of the priceless cultural treasures he’d concealed from them. He made himself a hero to Syrians and antiquarians alike by denying his captors any satisfaction save his death — which was accomplished by a public beheading....

[DesertRhino]

Horrifying that we launched and funded that movement in our zeal to remove Assad. More Hillary and Obama crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

[robowombat]

This is a classic illustration of the blood of the innocent that is on the hands of all American federal tax payers as a result of the actions of Clinton in Serbia, G W Bush/Cheney in Iraq and partially Afghanistan and BHO/J McCain in Arab Spring and Hildabeast in Libya. US actions have been the direct cause of vastly more deaths than any Islamacist group or movement.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 8/18/2022, thanks CheshireTheCat.