Jordan releases security footage of shooting of 3 US troops Video

Jordan releases security footage of shooting of 3 US troops Video

Jordan releases shocking security footage showing one of their soldiers killing three U.S. Army Green Berets – despite the Americans waving their hands in peace

Jordan’s military released security camera footage Monday of a shooting in which a Jordanian soldier killed three U.S. military trainers at an air base in the kingdom.

The video had previously been shown to the families of the U.S. Army Green Berets by U.S. law enforcement but had not been made public until Monday.

The soldiers were killed on November 4, when their convoy came under fire at the entrance to the al-Jafr base in southern Jordan.

A Jordanian military court sentenced the soldier, 1st Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha, to life in prison with hard labor last week.

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Jordan has released video showing the November 2016 shooting of three U.S. Army Green Berets by one of their soldiers, 1st Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha

The video shows a caravan of vehicles trying to get onto the al-Jafr base in Jordan, when gunfire starts somewhere off camera. In this frame, you can see how a bullet caused a window to crack in the rear truck

Two men are seen exiting the rear two trucks and then seeking shelter behind some nearby concrete barriers

At first, it appears that the soldiers are shooting back, but eventually they throw their hands up, indicating they are peaceful

After a few moments, the two soldiers decide to seek shelter at a different set of concrete barriers across the road

The second soldier is seen sprinting across the road to the second hiding place

At this point, the Jordanian soldier comes out, armed with his rifle, searching for the pair

The defendant had said he opened fire because he feared the base was coming under attack and that he had acted in line with open-fire regulations.

Jordan’s military said in a statement Monday that the soldier ‘had acted against orders and military instructions and had not acted in self-defense.’

The statement was posted by Hala Akhbar, a news site linked to the military that also released the security camera footage.

Jordan initially said the Americans triggered the shooting by disobeying entry rules, a claim that was later withdrawn.

The Jordanian soldier points his weapon into one of the trucks, finding no one

Eventually, he spots the two soldiers in their new hiding place and springs there, firing

The soldiers fire back as they are fired upon, as shown in the above surveillance footage

The Jordanian soldier and one of the others point their weapons at each other in the above grab from the surveillance footage

After a struggle, it appears that one of the soldiers has taken the Jordanian down, and he lifts his hands up in surrender as another Jordanian apperas

The victims of the shooting were Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Lewellen, 27, of Kirksville, Missouri; Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, 30, of Tucson, Arizona; and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Texas.

The 6-minute-long video was in line with descriptions previously given by the relatives of the American soldiers who had watched the footage.

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It shows the U.S. convoy coming under fire at the entrance to the base. The footage has no sound, but puffs of white-gray smoke indicate gunfire.

At one point, two figures, U.S. forces, are seen getting out of their vehicles to take cover. They raise their hands and wave from behind a barrier, but the shooting continues. Another figure, according to past descriptions the Jordanian, chases them and keeps shooting.

Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Lewellen, 27 (left); Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, 30 (center); and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27 (right) were the three killed in the incident

Last week, a Jordanian military court sentenced 1st Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha (left, behind bars) to life in prison with hard labor. Al-Tuwayha said he opened fire because he feared the base was under attack, but Jordanian officials said he had ‘acted against orders’

According to the descriptions of the relatives, Lewellen and McEnroe, who were in the first vehicle waiting at the gate, were the first to be hit by gunfire.

Moriarty and another soldier jumped out of the next two cars to take cover and returned fire with their pistols. They yelled that they were friendly forces, the relatives said.

The defendant kept shooting, they said. He was seriously wounded in the exchange.

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‘Kashmir is not Syria!’ Is the rise of hard-line, ISIS supporting jihadists in the Valley more myth than reality?

Through the narrow lanes of Srinagar the body of Sajad Gilkar, a slain Hizbul militant was being taken out for burial from his home on July 12.

The atmosphere looked tense with hundreds of people shouting slogans. It looked like a routine funeral procession until someone removed the green Pakistani flag from the body and later covered it with a black one.

It resembled the flag that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) uses globally.

The body of a dead Kashmiri covered in the flag of ISIS

Pictures of this incident have ever since become a talking point.

Many use it to suggest that this was a clear indicator of ISIS having made inroads into Kashmir. If true, this would certainly mean a monumental shift in Kashmir’s conflict.

But conflicts have a habit of throwing doubts at people and at times even make things look real only to be proven wrong, later.

So is the ‘ISIS in Kashmir’ story a reality or just a myth? Top security officials working in Kashmir, however, dismiss such terror theories as nothing but fables.

‘Kashmir is not Syria. An organisation like ISIS establishing a base in Kashmir and working the way it does in Iraq and Syria is just not possible. Let us not underestimate our grids’, said a top official.

Even in the case of Sajad Gilkar, officials have denied his linkage with any ISIS affiliated networks or groups so far.

‘In Downtown it is for the first time we have seen ISIS flags on a militant body. Earlier such flags were seen in protests. We have already started investigations but so far found nothing concrete’, said Munir Khan, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir.

The only tangible link between ISIS and Kashmir has been found among youths who were attracted towards the ideology while outside the country. Over the years, only three such cases have come to light.

In August 2015, news emerged about a young Kashmiri named Adil Fayaz Wada from Srinagar’s upscale Jawahar Nagar locality who has allegedly joined ISIS from Australia.

He had been pursuing his MBA degree from Queensland University. After finishing his degree, Wada had told his family that he had got a job in Turkey, after failing to get one in Australia, Dubai and Qatar.

There has been no news about him ever since. In January 2016, another youngster, Sheikh Azhar ul Islam, from Preng village of Ganderbal district, was deported from the United Arab Emirates for being an alleged IS sympathiser, along with two other Indians.

This year Afshan Pervaz, 21, a resident of Khanyar, a downtown Srinagar locality, has been deported from Turkey for allegedly trying to join ISIS.

According to police, Pervaz had told his family that he wanted to go to Iran for higher studies, and had booked a seat on a flight to Tehran in March 23.

He went to Turkey from there. However, what bothers security forces more is the growing ideology of ‘hard-line Islam’ among the youngsters who are joining militant groups.

Recently a boy from North Kashmir had left his home to join the Zakir Musa group of militants. His parents and the police worked hard to bring him back just in the nick of time.

They had to take the help of a religious scholar to convince him to shun the path.

When the police spoke to him it seemed that he was fascinated by the ideas of Islamic supremacy that Zakir Musa has been professing.

ISIS professes ultra radical Salfist ideology and their system of Islamic governance is guided by that. They use brutal means to achieve the objective. Kashmir won’t accept that.
Police official in J&K

Musa made headlines with his audio message in which he threatened to chop off the heads of Hurriyat leaders if they came in his path and insisted that the struggle of Kashmir was just political.

Zakir also later announced his breakup from the parent group of Hizbul Mujahidin. He was even heard saying that he had no ties with ISIS or Al- Qaeda but he wasn’t against them.

Since then he and his group have been functioning as a separate entity mostly in the south of Kashmir.

To some people all this bear similarities to ISIS. However, there still is a sharp difference between ISIS and Kashmiri militancy.

‘ISIS professes ultra radical Salfist ideology and their system of Islamic governance is guided by that. They use brutal means to achieve the objective. Kashmir won’t accept that ‘, says a top police official in J&K.

So what explains for this growing trend of young boys getting lured towards Zakir Musa brand of Islam?

There are many factors to this and one among them is hopelessness. ‘Youngsters are losing faith in Hurriyat and to an extent even Pakistan. In these decades nothing has changed in Kashmir. Not an inch has been won by them. And now there seems to be little interest shown by political class in Delhi for any headway or talks.

‘This causes hopelessness and in such a state some are bound to find refuge in extreme thought process’, explains an important top functionary in the security team.

Another factor as per the experts could also be the sudden assertion of the ‘Hindu’ ideology in the rest of the country. Social media users in Kashmir do react sharply to every news item about cow vigilantism or any other such issue that comes up from the mainland.

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‘I ran out of tears’: Yazidi schoolgirl reveals how she was raped every day for six months by an ‘ugly beast’ of an ISIS jihadi when she was just fourteen

A Yazidi schoolgirl has revealed her horrifying story of how she was kidnapped and used as a sex slave by ISIS fighters when she was just 14.

Ekhlas was captured along with thousands of Yazidi women when ISIS jihadis swept through northern Iraq in 2014.

She tried to escape to Mount Sinjar, where 50,000 members of the long-persecuted sect had fled.

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But, talking to Victoria Derbyshire, she revealed how she was raped every day for six months by jihadis.

Now 16, Ekhlas said: ‘My life was beautiful but two hours changed my life. They came with their black flag. They killed our men and raped our girls.

‘They killed my father in front of my own eyes. I saw blood on their hands. All I heard was screaming and crying, everyone was starving, they weren’t feeding anyone.

‘I saw a man who was over 40 take a 10-year-old girl. The girl was screaming. I’ll never forget those screams.’

Ekhlas was chosen as a sex slave out 150 girls by a jihadi when he drew lots and kept for six months.

She said: ‘He was so ugly, like a beast, with his long hair. He smelt so bad. I was so frightened I couldn’t look at him.

‘Every day for six months he raped me. I tried to kill myself. How am I telling you this without crying? I tell you I ran out of tears.’

But Ekhlas managed to remain strong because she said, ‘my smile was my weapon’.

She managed to miraculously escape her abuser when he was out fighting and found her way to a refugee camp.

There she met Jacqueline Isaac, an American lawyer, and was resettled in Germany three months later.

Jacqueline said: ‘When I first met her, her head was down, all of their heads were down. There was no eye contact in the beginning.’

Ehklas is now receiving therapy at a psychiatric hospital for her trauma, but she says she wants to be a lawyer in the future.

She added: ‘You probably think I am as strong as a rock but I want you to know I am wounded inside. I have my pain and it’s like 100 deaths.’

Nearly 10,000 Yazidis were killed or captured when ISIS took over Mount Sinjar in the summer of 2014.

An estimated thirty per cent of that number were executed by gunshot, beheading or being burned alive.

The Yazidis are a predominantly ethnic Kurdish group, and have managed to keep their religion alive for centuries, which is rumoured to have been derived from Zoroastrianism.

This has given them the reputation in the Middle East for being ‘devil-worshipers’, and they were subject to 72 genocidal massacres during the 19th and 19th centuries alone.

Around fifteen per cent of the population in Iraq fled the country to seek asylum in Europe during the ISIS rampage.

The plight of the Yazidis, along with ISIS’ whirlwind advance through Iraq, brought international attention to the region.

Three years later the group has been forced from its last major Iraqi stronghold of Mosul by a combination of Iraqi ground forces and coalition airstrikes.

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Horrifying video shows 18 blindfolded ‘ISIS fighters’ in orange jumpsuits being shot in the head from point-blank range in mass execution in Libya

A shocking video has emerged showing 18 prisoners in orange jumpsuits getting shot in the back of the head from point-blank range in summary executions in Libya.

The men, understood to be ISIS fighters, are shown kneeling in four rows and facing away from their killers.

Executioners can be seen walking up slowly behind their targets before firing a spray of bullets from what look like semi-automatic assault rifles into the backs of their heads before another line of killers repeat the sequence.

It comes amid tensions between jihadists and Libyan forces in Benghazi after strongman Khalifa Haftar – a former soldier under the Gaddafi regime who has risen through the ranks to commander of the Libyan National Army – declared victory in the eastern city.

Executioners, thought to be from the Libyan National Army, take aim at their targets – supposedly ISIS fighters in the country

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The gruesome video, seen by MailOnline, shows all 18 men in orange jumpsuits falling to the floor after being shot, but it it not clear who is pulling the trigger and giving the orders.

It is claimed by the Libyan Express the commander of the eastern Saiqa Force of Operation Dignity Mahmoud Al-Werfalli conducted the massacre.

He was also said to have ordered the killings by the Libyan Observer, who reported he had been promoted by Haftar, leader of the Libyan National Army, for his alleged role in killing policemen in May.

It is understood those killed were ISIS fighters in Libya, according to Al Jazeera, who again claimed it was Al-Werfalli reading the charges before his proteges shoot the detainees dead.

In the video, a man can be seen reading from a piece of paper and men in military uniform can be seen walking up to their targets, taking one each, and unleashing a flurry of bullets on the command of their leader.

The kneeling men fall to the ground face-first, which doesn’t stop the gunmen from shooting.

Eventually, they turn on their heels and walk back together in a line before a new set of executioners walk forward and kill the next line of prisoners.

A man in an orange jumpsuit located in the second line appears to fall forward in an attempt to fool the executioners, but he is dragged back onto his knees and callously shot in the head in the second round of killings.

The sequence continues until all 18 men are dead.

The video is dated July 17, which means it would have come just days after the UN’s human rights spokeswoman Liz Throssell said called for the Libyan National Army (LNA) which controls the eastern part of the country to investigate summary executions of prisoners.

The UN’s human rights body and voiced concern at the fate of those still in their custody.

The LNA is pushing to expand its presence in central and southern Libya, where it has been vying for control with forces linked to the UN-backed government in Tripoli and other opponents.

LNA leader Khalifa Haftar has gained ground with Egyptian and Emirati support, and Western states say Haftar must be part of any solution to Libya’s conflict

UN human rights spokeswoman Liz Throssell said: ‘We are deeply concerned that, after recent fighting in Benghazi, people taken prisoner by members of the Libyan National Army, which effectively controls eastern Libya, may be at imminent risk of torture and even summary execution.

‘Reports have suggested the involvement of Special Forces, a unit aligned with the LNA, in torturing detainees and summarily executing at least 10 captured men.’

The Libyan National Army announced last March that it would conduct investigations into alleged war crimes but has not shared any information, Throssell said.

‘We urge the LNA to ensure there is a full, impartial investigation into these allegations,’ she said.

Throssell also called on the group to suspend Mahmoud al-Werfalli from his duties as a Special Forces field commander pending the conclusion of such an investigation.

A video circulating on social media in March allegedly showed al-Werfalli shooting dead three men who were kneeling and facing a wall with their hands tied behind their backs, Throssell said.

In June, two further videos appeared to show summary executions carried out by LNA fighters on his orders.

‘One of these videos, which emerged on 9 June, shows four men kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs who are shot dead as al-Werfalli watches,’ she said.

‘The latest video, which was posted on social media this month, seems to shows LNA fighters kicking and taunting prisoners, while al-Werfalli is apparently heard accusing two men who have their hands tied behind their backs of belonging to terrorist groups,’ she said.

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