Category: child executioner
Way of the Righteousness – Sayna
Forty-two minute video release from Islamic State Sinai which has a number of ‘stand out’ details.
The GoPro wearing fighter getting hit is one, (11.24)
The production is much the same as other Sinai releases but the one thing that sets this release apart are the audio errors in some of the multicamera edits. The firefights at a radio base with the hijacking of a tank, and also the roadblocks favouring the small mobile cells of fighters which dissolve back into the small villages and vast terrain. The attacks are not strategic or with any long term motivations, but a way of replenishing supplies, looting ammunition and taking prisoners for possible exchange or ransom showing the diversification of the fighter cells In one scene the old weapons the men carry are in contrast to the brand new webbing they have on. The video is a showcase for where the money went.
The video has a number of executions and begins with the slaughter of a goat.
Exploding car
Islamic State – North Baghdad October 2018
Nearly nineteen minute video released from North Baghdad made up of sections of video files shown in a postcard type storyboard up to recent times including VBIED attacks. Executions feature as most of the content of second half of the release showing the victims in military uniforms or in post of public office along with the building in rubble.
Note – bottom left hand corner of the frame below you can see the clip layer which is being used as audio.This is why “detach audio” exists. Very rare to see this error.
More – June 28, 2018 (iraqinews dot com)
Sit and Wait For Them At Every Place – Kirkuk
Eleven minute video which has some resemblance to the series “Harvest of the Soldiers” (tangentcode). The title is Quranic verse 9:5 (here) and is used in this context to align roadside bombs and night attacks on passing traffic as combative counter actions. Roadside explosives are shown being made and ultimately detonated, some successful others not.
The video contains a number of executions which are rough and amateurish and void of any district measure of impact aside from the brutality.
” when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”
Hot Donkey
The video shows vision (possibly) from a surveillance craft of two men committing an act of gross indecency on Donkeys. The video is taken by cell phone as the vision is played back on a VGA monitor. Certain time marks are seen as well as what may be IR or infrared.
Note : Some things can not be unseen.
Note – (sheep make a quick get away)
Flames of War – Three
Fifty five minute video Al Hayat released as a part three to the Flames Of War series. The English narration with its stylised nuances explains the history up to the present time of Islamic State.
The video with its slow motion RPG rocket firing is padded together with battle vision from previous releases, (for example the image below is seen in part three) together with production voice over audio and some off the shelf fire transitions add to the impact which the narrative attempts to impose.
The video ends with men digging a trench as English translations run over the lower third, the scene ends with their execution.
Flames of War – September 2014