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Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.
The brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad, 82, is the latest atrocity perpetrated by the jihadi group, which has captured a third of Syria and neighbouring Iraq and declared a “caliphate” on the territory it controls.
It has also highlighted Isis’s habit of looting and selling antiquities to fund its activities – as well as destroying them.
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A 2002 picture of Khaled al-Asaad in front of a rare sarcophagus from Palmyra depicting two priests dating from the first century. Photograph: Marc Deville/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
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/Why do I always think this reeks of Israeli involvement...
because you're muslim & indoctrinated (weekly) into thinking everything is the fault of either the jews or americans
so, not really your own fault
conspiracy theory is the ambassador was murdered because he knew about the weapons being supplied to isis from the white house
/Why do I always think this reeks of Israeli involvement...
The things they do happens no where else in the world on this scale.
What is the message behind it all??
/Why do I always think this reeks of Israeli involvement...
and a stupid one at that
Because you have a warped view that Israeli's are evil and responsible for all the trouble in the middle east.
They also have American spec vehicles.
Not common in that region.
Majority of their supplies is also indirectly American, left overs from Iraq. So either sold to ISIS or stolen, but if you follow the wars and the fraud and corruption involved chances are they were sold cheaply.
That would be correct, except the warped view part.
If you believe they innocent in any way you are delusional.
If you truly believe that Isreal is that evil shouldn't you be more afraid of bad mouthing them on a forum, Mossad has agents everywhere don't know...
Then post arbitrary links to suit their argument completely irrelevant to the topic and then derail the thread to closure until the next one.
because you're muslim & indoctrinated (weekly) into thinking everything is the fault of either the jews or americans
so, not really your own fault
Yup spot on, a raging Jew hater of note, not surprising is it?
Its amazing how they never take responsibility for their bloody mess, its always the Jews or the Americans.
Time these idiots wake the fk up and realise they are the problem,
But their involvement in this mess is evident.
The US went in to Libya at a drop of a hat, they left Syria. They destroyed Iraq which is directly attributed to this ISIS thing.
Nobody know what this ISIS thing is, not Assad, not the Saudis, not Iran... Not even the Palestinians.
They Syrian refugees are now suffering and being treated like dogs with no place to go. EU is now relooking their border controls.
Its a freakin mess, but is it really 100% squarely directed to ISIS? I think not.
I suppose you also know Israel claims the western part of Syria as theirs...
It's always Israel and the Jews isn't it ???