nationalpost:Syrian rebels ask for ‘understanding and forgiveness’ after accidentally decapitating w
nationalpost:Syrian rebels ask for ‘understanding and forgiveness’ after accidentally decapitating wrong man, putting severed head on displayMilitant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to Al-Qaeda have asked for “understanding and forgiveness” for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man’s head.In a public appearance filmed and posted online, members of Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, one brandishing a knife, held up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo. They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for President Bashar Al-Assad.But the head was recognised from the video as belonging to a member of Ahrar Al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist rebel group that often fights alongside ISIS though it does not share its Al-Qaeda ideology. -- source link