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Surveying resources in Iraq, Um Hanadi is one of the most feared figures by ISIS
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Pictures on the militia leader's Facebook page show her alongside heavily-armed fighters, who she has led in successful operations against ISIS
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Despite six assassination attempts, Um Hanadi said she is determined to defeat ISIS in her native Iraq
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[h=1]Palestinian asylum-seeker 'ran a £7MILLION smuggling ring and helped up to 100 Syrian migrants a DAY cross the border into Europe'[/h][h=2]
Jamal Owda, 27, who faces up to 20 years in prison, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today as he battles against being sent to jail in Greece.
He is said to have masterminded one of Europe’s largest people-smuggling gangs, helping Syrians to cross the European border daily for 16 months.
Owda allegedly used an asylum hostel near Sefton Park, Liverpool, as a base and had claimed asylum after entering Britain in the back of a lorry in 2014.
He was arrested in a dawn raid last December when police allegedly found £17,500 in cash hidden in a speaker in his room.
The authorities in Greece are seeking Owda’s extradition from London to Athens so that he can face trial for people trafficking – but he is fighting this.
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Owda allegedly used an asylum hostel (pictured) near Sefton Park, Liverpool, as a base and had claimed asylum after entering Britain in the back of a lorry in 2014
He is firstly charged with being involved in a 22-strong group which conspired to smuggle people into Europe between July 2014 and November 2015.
And Palestinian national Owda is also charged of ‘substantial involvement’ in a similar operation between March and May 2015.
But Owda, whose application for asylum has been rejected by the UK, claims that returning him to Greece would be a breach of his human rights.
He claims Greek prison conditions would breach Article 2, the right to life; and Article 3, no torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, of the Human Rights Act.
Today, the court was due to hear from an expert witness in Greece to elaborate on the conditions of Greek prisons, but internet trouble scuppered the link.
James Stansfeld, representing the Greek authorities, then requested an adjournment saying he had received new documents relating to the case.
Mr Stansfield told the court: ‘There have been discussions between the UK and Greece in relation to prison conditions.
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Discovery: Owda was arrested in a dawn raid last December when police allegedly found £17,500 in cash hidden in a speaker in his room
‘On September 12 a large number of documents from the Greek authorities were served.
‘There has been information by the Greeks that is relevant to Owda’s article 3 application.’
District Judge John Zani accepted the application and the matter was put back until October 10.
On that date the court is set to hear evidence from a psychiatrist and a psychologist to discuss Owda’s mental health.
Previously the court heard that if extradited, Owda could face 20 years behind bars in Greece.
Owda is fighting deportation on the grounds that Greek prison conditions would breach his human rights and that he is suffering post-traumatic stress after growing up in war-torn Gaza.
He had psychiatric treatment in his native Gaza between 2006 and 2008 where he was diagnosed with paranoia and hallucinations.
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Where he was arrested: Owda, whose application for asylum has been rejected by the UK, claims that returning him to Greece would be a breach of his human rights
The alleged smuggler also claimed that when he was arrested in Athens in June 2011, he was attacked and locked in a cell for 24 hours a day and fed ‘disgusting’ meals.
He previously said: ‘There were other prisoners who were beaten over there, there are millions of people badly treated over there, we were put together in the police station before being transferred to prison.
‘I have evidence, an Egyptian man helped me after I was hit. We were just marching in the corridors on the way to the cells when they hit me with a stick.
‘The worst verbal abuse was in the Greek language, it was the first time I have ever been arrested in Greece and was the only time I was hit.
‘There were no beds, only a mattress on the floor. They provided meals as such, but they were pretty basic and disgusting.’
After 14 days in jail Owda was released and given 30 days’ notice to leave Greece.
He then claimed asylum in Britain after arriving in the back of a lorry in May 2014 but that was refused and he is currently appealing that decision.
Owda vehemently denied the accusations of wrongdoing. ‘I challenge anyone on the face of the earth to come forward and prove these allegations,’ he said.
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[h=1]Palestinian asylum-seeker 'ran a £7MILLION smuggling ring and helped up to 100 Syrian migrants a DAY cross the border into Europe'[/h][h=2]
- Jamal Owda faces up to 20 years in jail for alleged smuggling operation
- Appeared at Westminster court today as he battles extradition to Greece
- Allegedly masterminded one of Europe’s largest people-smuggling gangs
- Owda, 27, is said to have used an asylum hostel in Liverpool as his base
Jamal Owda, 27, who faces up to 20 years in prison, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today as he battles against being sent to jail in Greece.
He is said to have masterminded one of Europe’s largest people-smuggling gangs, helping Syrians to cross the European border daily for 16 months.
Owda allegedly used an asylum hostel near Sefton Park, Liverpool, as a base and had claimed asylum after entering Britain in the back of a lorry in 2014.
He was arrested in a dawn raid last December when police allegedly found £17,500 in cash hidden in a speaker in his room.
The authorities in Greece are seeking Owda’s extradition from London to Athens so that he can face trial for people trafficking – but he is fighting this.
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Owda allegedly used an asylum hostel (pictured) near Sefton Park, Liverpool, as a base and had claimed asylum after entering Britain in the back of a lorry in 2014
He is firstly charged with being involved in a 22-strong group which conspired to smuggle people into Europe between July 2014 and November 2015.
And Palestinian national Owda is also charged of ‘substantial involvement’ in a similar operation between March and May 2015.
But Owda, whose application for asylum has been rejected by the UK, claims that returning him to Greece would be a breach of his human rights.
He claims Greek prison conditions would breach Article 2, the right to life; and Article 3, no torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, of the Human Rights Act.
Today, the court was due to hear from an expert witness in Greece to elaborate on the conditions of Greek prisons, but internet trouble scuppered the link.
James Stansfeld, representing the Greek authorities, then requested an adjournment saying he had received new documents relating to the case.
Mr Stansfield told the court: ‘There have been discussions between the UK and Greece in relation to prison conditions.
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Discovery: Owda was arrested in a dawn raid last December when police allegedly found £17,500 in cash hidden in a speaker in his room
‘On September 12 a large number of documents from the Greek authorities were served.
‘There has been information by the Greeks that is relevant to Owda’s article 3 application.’
District Judge John Zani accepted the application and the matter was put back until October 10.
On that date the court is set to hear evidence from a psychiatrist and a psychologist to discuss Owda’s mental health.
Previously the court heard that if extradited, Owda could face 20 years behind bars in Greece.
Owda is fighting deportation on the grounds that Greek prison conditions would breach his human rights and that he is suffering post-traumatic stress after growing up in war-torn Gaza.
He had psychiatric treatment in his native Gaza between 2006 and 2008 where he was diagnosed with paranoia and hallucinations.
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Where he was arrested: Owda, whose application for asylum has been rejected by the UK, claims that returning him to Greece would be a breach of his human rights
The alleged smuggler also claimed that when he was arrested in Athens in June 2011, he was attacked and locked in a cell for 24 hours a day and fed ‘disgusting’ meals.
He previously said: ‘There were other prisoners who were beaten over there, there are millions of people badly treated over there, we were put together in the police station before being transferred to prison.
‘I have evidence, an Egyptian man helped me after I was hit. We were just marching in the corridors on the way to the cells when they hit me with a stick.
‘The worst verbal abuse was in the Greek language, it was the first time I have ever been arrested in Greece and was the only time I was hit.
‘There were no beds, only a mattress on the floor. They provided meals as such, but they were pretty basic and disgusting.’
After 14 days in jail Owda was released and given 30 days’ notice to leave Greece.
He then claimed asylum in Britain after arriving in the back of a lorry in May 2014 but that was refused and he is currently appealing that decision.
Owda vehemently denied the accusations of wrongdoing. ‘I challenge anyone on the face of the earth to come forward and prove these allegations,’ he said.
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[h=2]Arabic-speaking man, 20, took selfies with 14-year-old girl in park 'before pushing her against a tree and sexually assaulting her' [/h]
Mohammed Alfrouh, 20, forced one of his victims against a tree in Leazes Park, Newcastle before groping her, the city's crown court has been told.
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[h=2]Bulgaria bans the burqa: Women no longer allowed to wear veils after nationalist party pushed for law change amid fears of Islamic terrorism [/h]
Bulgaria's parliament has approved a law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public amid increasing fears over acts of Islamic terrorism in the country.
[h=2]Decorated ex-Army lieutenant colonel, and doctor, 57, shot his wife and left her body in their bathtub then drove an hour to kill their college student son, 19, before turning gun on himself[/h]
UPDATED Nasir Siddique (left) shot his wife Zarqa in the head in the bathtub in their home in Bel Air, Maryland, on Wednesday afternoon then drove some 60 miles to shoot their 19-year-old son Farhad (seen right, with his mother) before killing himself. The 57-year-old retired from the US Army in 2010 after 30 years of service during which time he collected scores of awards. His daughter Laila (seen centre with the rest of the family) was studying at Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania at the time.
[h=1]Young Muslims who quit the faith 'live in fear of violent revenge': Support group says some have been warned they will be killed if they abandon their religion[/h]
By STEVE DOUGHTY, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 01:13, 4 October 2016 | UPDATED: 01:48, 4 October 2016
Young Muslims who abandon their faith face violent retaliation and abuse from their families, a support group said yesterday.
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain said those born into the religion are often frightened of speaking out – and those that do are in danger of attack.
It said one former Muslim said she was warned by her mother that she would be killed if she said she no longer believed in Allah.
The concern over the risk of reprisals against apostates – those who renounce their religion – was made public at a time of deepening scrutiny of the behaviour of some Islamic communities and institutions.
The risks to Muslims who abandon their religion were set out by former believers and campaigners in an ITV documentary to be broadcast on October 13.
Council of Ex-Muslims leader Maryam Namazie told the makers of the film, Exposure: Islam's Non-Believers: 'They see us trouble-makers, deviants, apostates and blasphemers. There is nothing, nothing, more intolerant than religion.'
One former Muslim, who identified herself only as Sadia, told the documentary makers: 'I remember saying to my mum, I don't believe in God any more. And her saying, 'you can't tell anybody else because they'll kill you, we are obliged to kill ex-Muslims'.
'And that it would put me at extreme risk if anybody else was to find out, so that conversation ended there.'
Young Muslims who renounce their faith are said by campaigners to risk discrimination, ostracism, psychological abuse and violence. Some are said to have suffered abuse by family members and to be in danger of suicide or self-harm.
Apostasy is frowned on in most Muslim countries and can be punished in some with the death sentence. The documentary makers allege that critics of Islam have been murdered in Bangladesh and that atheists in the country are under threat both from the government and from Islamist gangs. The Council of Ex-Muslims said that in Britain radical Islamist protesters try to shut down meetings or events.
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The inquiry was launched by Theresa May (pictured) when she was at the Home Office
Miss Namazie, an Iranian-born secularist activist, said: 'The internet and social media are doing to Islam what the printing press did in the past to Christianity, because it is one way in which masses of people can connect with each other and can hear ideas that are taboo and forbidden.'
A series of issues relating to some Islamic communities and institutions have come into the public domain in recent times.
One revolves around so-called honour killings, in which Muslim women have been murdered by their own families after marrying non-Muslims or others disapproved of by relatives.
The decision of an Islamic school to launch a court challenge against a critical inspectors' report – and the ruling of a judge that banned the school from being named – has led to a spotlight on the links between some schools and extremists.
A Government inquiry is under way into sharia councils, courts attached to mosques that adjudicate family disputes according to Islamic law among those who accept their authority. The inquiry was launched by Theresa May when she was at the Home Office. She said at the time that 'a number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions'.
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Council of Ex-Muslims leader Maryam Namazie said 'there is nothing more intolerant than religion'
- A support group said young Muslims who abandon their faith face abuse
- The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain said some are frightened to speak out
- One former Muslim was warned by her mother that she would be killed
By STEVE DOUGHTY, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 01:13, 4 October 2016 | UPDATED: 01:48, 4 October 2016
Young Muslims who abandon their faith face violent retaliation and abuse from their families, a support group said yesterday.
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain said those born into the religion are often frightened of speaking out – and those that do are in danger of attack.
It said one former Muslim said she was warned by her mother that she would be killed if she said she no longer believed in Allah.
The concern over the risk of reprisals against apostates – those who renounce their religion – was made public at a time of deepening scrutiny of the behaviour of some Islamic communities and institutions.
The risks to Muslims who abandon their religion were set out by former believers and campaigners in an ITV documentary to be broadcast on October 13.
Council of Ex-Muslims leader Maryam Namazie told the makers of the film, Exposure: Islam's Non-Believers: 'They see us trouble-makers, deviants, apostates and blasphemers. There is nothing, nothing, more intolerant than religion.'
One former Muslim, who identified herself only as Sadia, told the documentary makers: 'I remember saying to my mum, I don't believe in God any more. And her saying, 'you can't tell anybody else because they'll kill you, we are obliged to kill ex-Muslims'.
'And that it would put me at extreme risk if anybody else was to find out, so that conversation ended there.'
Young Muslims who renounce their faith are said by campaigners to risk discrimination, ostracism, psychological abuse and violence. Some are said to have suffered abuse by family members and to be in danger of suicide or self-harm.
Apostasy is frowned on in most Muslim countries and can be punished in some with the death sentence. The documentary makers allege that critics of Islam have been murdered in Bangladesh and that atheists in the country are under threat both from the government and from Islamist gangs. The Council of Ex-Muslims said that in Britain radical Islamist protesters try to shut down meetings or events.
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The inquiry was launched by Theresa May (pictured) when she was at the Home Office
Miss Namazie, an Iranian-born secularist activist, said: 'The internet and social media are doing to Islam what the printing press did in the past to Christianity, because it is one way in which masses of people can connect with each other and can hear ideas that are taboo and forbidden.'
A series of issues relating to some Islamic communities and institutions have come into the public domain in recent times.
One revolves around so-called honour killings, in which Muslim women have been murdered by their own families after marrying non-Muslims or others disapproved of by relatives.
The decision of an Islamic school to launch a court challenge against a critical inspectors' report – and the ruling of a judge that banned the school from being named – has led to a spotlight on the links between some schools and extremists.
A Government inquiry is under way into sharia councils, courts attached to mosques that adjudicate family disputes according to Islamic law among those who accept their authority. The inquiry was launched by Theresa May when she was at the Home Office. She said at the time that 'a number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions'.
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Council of Ex-Muslims leader Maryam Namazie said 'there is nothing more intolerant than religion'
[h=1]Taunted until he murdered his sister: Man admits 'honour killing' because his sibling, 18, married a Christian man[/h]
PUBLISHED: 21:49, 3 October 2016 | UPDATED: 01:29, 4 October 2016
A Pakistani man has admitted murdering his sister in an 'honour killing' because she married a Christian man.
Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, shot Tasleem, 18, in the head at home in August after he discovered his Muslim sister had defied the family and married a Christian.
He had been taunted by co-workers who had seen Tasleem in their neighbourhood with the man.
Rajhu, who is from a poor neighbourhood on the northern edge of Lahore, is being held by police.
He said he had demanded that his sister swear on the Quran that she would never marry the man.
He said: 'I told her I would have no face to show at the mill, to show to my neighbors, so don't do it. Don't do it. But she wouldn't listen.
'I could not let it go. It was all I could think about. I had to kill her. There was no choice. There was no yelling, no shouting. I just shot her dead.'
Ali Raza, a co-worker at the mill, said the taunting of Rajhu about his sister had gone on for months.
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Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, killed Tasleem after he discovered his Muslim sister had defied the family and married a Christian
He said: 'He used to tell us, "If you don't stop, I will kill myself. Stop!" The guys here told him, "It would be better to kill your sister".'
Raza said Rajhu told them he had bought a pistol and one day in August stopped coming to work.
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Tasleem, 18, was shot in the head at home by her brother Mubeen on August 14
However, Tasleem's father Mohammed Naseer Rajhu puts the blame on his daughter.
He said: 'My family is destroyed. Everything is destroyed only because of this shameful girl. Even after death I am destroyed because of her.'
The number of 'honour killings' in Pakistan has increased over the past few years.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 1,184 people were killed in 2015, compared to 869 in 2013.
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Rajhu, who is from a poor neighborhood on the edge of Lahore, is being held by police
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He had been taunted by co-workers at the mill (pictured) who had seen Tasleem with the man
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- Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, shot Tasleem in the head at home
- He discovered his Muslim sister had defied family and married a Christian
- Rajhu had been taunted by co-workers who had seen his sister with man
PUBLISHED: 21:49, 3 October 2016 | UPDATED: 01:29, 4 October 2016
A Pakistani man has admitted murdering his sister in an 'honour killing' because she married a Christian man.
Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, shot Tasleem, 18, in the head at home in August after he discovered his Muslim sister had defied the family and married a Christian.
He had been taunted by co-workers who had seen Tasleem in their neighbourhood with the man.
Rajhu, who is from a poor neighbourhood on the northern edge of Lahore, is being held by police.
He said he had demanded that his sister swear on the Quran that she would never marry the man.
He said: 'I told her I would have no face to show at the mill, to show to my neighbors, so don't do it. Don't do it. But she wouldn't listen.
'I could not let it go. It was all I could think about. I had to kill her. There was no choice. There was no yelling, no shouting. I just shot her dead.'
Ali Raza, a co-worker at the mill, said the taunting of Rajhu about his sister had gone on for months.
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Mubeen Rajhu, 24, from Lahore, killed Tasleem after he discovered his Muslim sister had defied the family and married a Christian
He said: 'He used to tell us, "If you don't stop, I will kill myself. Stop!" The guys here told him, "It would be better to kill your sister".'
Raza said Rajhu told them he had bought a pistol and one day in August stopped coming to work.
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Tasleem, 18, was shot in the head at home by her brother Mubeen on August 14
However, Tasleem's father Mohammed Naseer Rajhu puts the blame on his daughter.
He said: 'My family is destroyed. Everything is destroyed only because of this shameful girl. Even after death I am destroyed because of her.'
The number of 'honour killings' in Pakistan has increased over the past few years.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 1,184 people were killed in 2015, compared to 869 in 2013.
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Rajhu, who is from a poor neighborhood on the edge of Lahore, is being held by police
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He had been taunted by co-workers at the mill (pictured) who had seen Tasleem with the man
[h=1]Brother is tortured and forced to listen to his sister, 17, being gang-raped after being kidnapped by Pakistani Muslim gang and refusing to convert from Christianity[/h]
PUBLISHED: 21:18, 6 October 2016 | UPDATED: 21:37, 6 October 2016
A brother has been tortured and forced to listen to his 17-year-old sister being gang-raped after they were kidnapped by a Muslim gang in Pakistan after refusing to convert from Christianity.
The British Pakistani Christian Association say they have been assisting the family in Kasur in the east of the country following their ordeal.
According to the charity, the Muslim gang targeted the family home, which was a mud house in a small village, knowing that they were Christian and threatened them with guns, sticks and metal poles.
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A brother has been tortured and forced to listen to his 17-year-old sister being gang-raped after they were kidnapped by a Muslim gang in Pakistan after refusing to convert from Christianity. Pictured are Christians in Pakistan
The gang told them to convert to Islam or die but the family refused and said they were staying resolute to Christianity.
The men then tied up and blindfolded all but two of the family 20-year-old Arif and 17-year-old Jameela and took them to a n unknown building.
There, Arif was tortured and then had to listen as his sister was gang raped in a separate room.
The next morning he managed to escape and return to his family, who had escaped their shackles.
But his sister Jameela was left behind and she remains missing.
According to the charity, local police have refused to investigate the case and the family are deeply traumatised.
Wilson Chowdry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association said: 'We will now begin the arduous task of helping them rebuild their lives in an atmosphere of safety.
'However, the captured daughter Jameela may well never be found and her malicious kidnap is causing great anguish and despair.
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The scene of a killin of a Christian couple in Kasur in 2014. Christians make up about four per cent of Pakistan's population and tend to keep a low profile in a country
'That Muslim despots can kidnap Christian girls with such impunity is a blight on Pakistan's international reputation.'
Christians make up about four per cent of Pakistan's population and tend to keep a low profile in a country where Sunni Muslim militants frequently bomb targets they see as heretical, including Christians, and Sufi and Shi'ite Muslims.
All of Pakistan's minorities feel that the state fails to protect them, and even tolerates violence against them.
In 2014 a British man with a history of mental health illness, sentenced to death for blasphemy earlier this year, was shot by a prison guard in his cell.
Also that year, a Pakistani court upheld the death penalty against a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who is also accused of blasphemy, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.
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- Muslim gang targeted the family home of a Christian family in Pakistan
- They kidnapped a brother and a sister after they refused to covert to Islam
- The brother Arif was then tortured and the sister Jameela was gang raped
- Arif managed to escape and return to his family but Jameela is still missing
PUBLISHED: 21:18, 6 October 2016 | UPDATED: 21:37, 6 October 2016
A brother has been tortured and forced to listen to his 17-year-old sister being gang-raped after they were kidnapped by a Muslim gang in Pakistan after refusing to convert from Christianity.
The British Pakistani Christian Association say they have been assisting the family in Kasur in the east of the country following their ordeal.
According to the charity, the Muslim gang targeted the family home, which was a mud house in a small village, knowing that they were Christian and threatened them with guns, sticks and metal poles.
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A brother has been tortured and forced to listen to his 17-year-old sister being gang-raped after they were kidnapped by a Muslim gang in Pakistan after refusing to convert from Christianity. Pictured are Christians in Pakistan
The gang told them to convert to Islam or die but the family refused and said they were staying resolute to Christianity.
The men then tied up and blindfolded all but two of the family 20-year-old Arif and 17-year-old Jameela and took them to a n unknown building.
There, Arif was tortured and then had to listen as his sister was gang raped in a separate room.
The next morning he managed to escape and return to his family, who had escaped their shackles.
But his sister Jameela was left behind and she remains missing.
According to the charity, local police have refused to investigate the case and the family are deeply traumatised.
Wilson Chowdry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association said: 'We will now begin the arduous task of helping them rebuild their lives in an atmosphere of safety.
'However, the captured daughter Jameela may well never be found and her malicious kidnap is causing great anguish and despair.
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The scene of a killin of a Christian couple in Kasur in 2014. Christians make up about four per cent of Pakistan's population and tend to keep a low profile in a country
'That Muslim despots can kidnap Christian girls with such impunity is a blight on Pakistan's international reputation.'
Christians make up about four per cent of Pakistan's population and tend to keep a low profile in a country where Sunni Muslim militants frequently bomb targets they see as heretical, including Christians, and Sufi and Shi'ite Muslims.
All of Pakistan's minorities feel that the state fails to protect them, and even tolerates violence against them.
In 2014 a British man with a history of mental health illness, sentenced to death for blasphemy earlier this year, was shot by a prison guard in his cell.
Also that year, a Pakistani court upheld the death penalty against a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who is also accused of blasphemy, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.
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[h=1]Muslim father rapes his daughter as punishment because she had become 'too Westernised' living in Norway[/h]
PUBLISHED: 11:00, 11 October 2016 | UPDATED: 12:59, 11 October 2016
A Muslim man in Norway has been detained for raping his daughter as a punishment after she became 'too Western'.
The man, in his 40s has been charged with rape and incest after he attacked his daughter in their family home in the city of Fredrikstad.
Police prosecutors have said the daughter told officers she was raped by her father as a punishment for living a Western lifestyle.
Both the father and daughter are of a non-European background.
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The woman, who is in her 20s and lives in Norway, was punished by her father for not living an Islamic lifestyle (file picture)
Police lawyer Anette Sogn told Fredrikstad24: 'They had been arguing prior to the rape.
'The father has been angry because his daughter did not follow his (Islamic) way of life, she explained in questioning.'
Following the attack, the daughter, who is in her 20s, ran out of the house and told a passing postman what had happened, who then went to the police.
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The father attacked his daughter at their home in the Norwegian city of Fredrikstad
The father has reportedly claimed that he does not understand why he has been charged with the crimes and said he was shocked by police DNA results.
The man has acknowledged that he sat on the victim’s bed, and tried to explain the police DNA findings with indirect contact.
If convicted, the man is likely to face a tough punishment in the courts, due to the gravity of the attack upon the victim in her own home.
The victim is receiving psychiatric help following the ordeal.
Read more:
- The man, in his 40s has been charged with rape and incest after he attacked his daughter in their family home
- The daughter ran out of the house in the city of Fredrikstad and told a passing postman who called the police
- The daughter told police she had been punished by her father for living a Western lifestyle
PUBLISHED: 11:00, 11 October 2016 | UPDATED: 12:59, 11 October 2016
A Muslim man in Norway has been detained for raping his daughter as a punishment after she became 'too Western'.
The man, in his 40s has been charged with rape and incest after he attacked his daughter in their family home in the city of Fredrikstad.
Police prosecutors have said the daughter told officers she was raped by her father as a punishment for living a Western lifestyle.
Both the father and daughter are of a non-European background.
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The woman, who is in her 20s and lives in Norway, was punished by her father for not living an Islamic lifestyle (file picture)
Police lawyer Anette Sogn told Fredrikstad24: 'They had been arguing prior to the rape.
'The father has been angry because his daughter did not follow his (Islamic) way of life, she explained in questioning.'
Following the attack, the daughter, who is in her 20s, ran out of the house and told a passing postman what had happened, who then went to the police.
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The father attacked his daughter at their home in the Norwegian city of Fredrikstad
The father has reportedly claimed that he does not understand why he has been charged with the crimes and said he was shocked by police DNA results.
The man has acknowledged that he sat on the victim’s bed, and tried to explain the police DNA findings with indirect contact.
If convicted, the man is likely to face a tough punishment in the courts, due to the gravity of the attack upon the victim in her own home.
The victim is receiving psychiatric help following the ordeal.
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[h=2]'All white girls are good for is sex. They're just sl*gs': Eight members of 'openly racist' violent Asian sex gang raped and 'sexually degraded' three teenage girls in Rotherham[/h]
NEW Rotherham sex gang ringleader Sageer Hussain openly boasted that he was racist and told his distraught 13-year-old white victim: 'All white girls are good for is sex and they are just sl*gs.'
[h=1]'All white girls are good for is sex. They're just sl*gs': Eight members of 'openly racist' violent Asian sex gang raped and 'sexually degraded' three teenage girls in Rotherham[/h]By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 16:27, 17 October 2016 | UPDATED: 16:34, 17 October 2016
Eight members of an Asian sex gang in Rotherham were today convicted of sexually exploiting teenage girls after making them suffer ‘degrading and violent’ acts.
Sageer Hussain, 30, openly boasted that he was racist and told his distraught 13-year-old white victim: ‘All white girls are good for is sex and they are just sl*gs.’
Sageer was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault and his elder brother Basharat, 40, of indecent assault against the same girl at Sheffield Crown Court.
Brothers: Sageer Hussain (left), 30, was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault and his elder brother Basharat (right), 40, of one indecent assault against the same 13-year-old girl
Six other members of the gang were also found guilty of a further ten charges of sexually abusing the three girls – and face jail when sentenced next month.
Sageer’s victim - who is now 27 - told police, their MP and the then home secretary David Blunkett that she had been repeatedly raped by Sageer.
But the allegations were dropped after men threatened to burn down the family home and gang-rape her mother.
The clothes she was wearing when she was raped by Sageer were lost by South Yorkshire Police days later and the force later gave the girl £140 compensation.
She had a cut lip and bruised thighs and bottom but forensic samples taken from the victim at the time were not retained because the rape allegation was dropped.
Tapes of Sageer’s 2003 police interview were also apparently destroyed.
Files belonging to the youth support group Risky Business compiled at the time of her complaint were also lost as well as phones seized during the police probe.
The girl’s family tried unsuccessfully to get help from the local social services and took the girl out of school.
She was treated by psychologists and the family were so desperate to escape her abusers they temporarily moved to Spain in 2005.
She received £20,400 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in 2011 over her earlier rape complaint
Her father told the court previously she was a ‘lovely, happy child’ who was ‘no trouble’ until she came home with a red, swollen cheek.
She told her father she had fallen but later confessed the truth to her mother. ‘They have been raping me,’ she said.
The girl - the victim in 13 of the 16 charges - told the court Sageer hit and slapped her and held her by the hair. ‘He doesn’t like girls saying no to him,’ she said.
She kept associating with his gang out of fear. ‘You feel like scared and stuff,’ she said. ‘Sageer is like evil, mean and his friends are scared of him because of his brothers.’
Sageer was said by Michelle Colborne QC, prosecuting, to have played a ‘key role’ in the sexual abuse of girls in Rotherham who were ‘targeted and sexualised.’
His brother Basharat performed a sex act on the 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions.
The Hussains were among eight men accused during the month-long trial of sexually exploiting three girls aged 13 or 14 at the time.
Girls were lured by the excitement of friendship with a group of older Asian youths and Sageer was instrumental in befriending the alleged victims.
But after a few weeks he became ‘domineering’ in his treatment of the 13-year-old girl and ‘used her for his own gratification then passed her onto his friends and older brothers or associates,’ said the prosecutor.
He was helped in differing ways by the other defendants ‘each willingly engaging in exploitative behaviour and using the girls to their own ends.’
The girl and her friends met Sageer and other older Asian boys in Rotherham town centre and they ‘became her life’.
Miss Colborne said: ‘They dressed better and seemed more approachable. Initially they were pleasant and they had fun with them.’
But the victims were soon groomed with cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis.
Her mother watched the 13-year-old turn from ‘a lovely girl to horrible and was powerless to control it,’ said Miss Colborne.
By the time she had turned 14 the girl had been repeatedly raped by Sageer in an alleyway at the side of the Boots store in Rotherham and the town’s Clifton Park.
The first time when she was still a virgin he made her look at him and told her to scream in front of his watching friends who said it would be their turn next.
The victim said Sageer had been taking drugs before the second rape in the alleyway during which he pulled her hair and grabbed her neck.
His cousin Mohammed Whied, 32, sat on his car bonnet and watched Sageer have sex with the girl in the car at Clifton Park.
‘Sageer was banging her head against the window telling her to scream and he called her a white sl*g,’ said Miss Colborne.
The fourth rape occurred when Sageer pulled the girl from Whied’s car and had sex with her in some bushes near Rotherham Museum.
She cried and he called her a ‘big baby’ before flicking cigarette ash into her hair.
She saw Sageer for the last time in Whied’s car when Sageer turned ‘nasty’ and punched her in the mouth causing it to bleed.
He set light to a can of deodorant which he waved in her face before threatening her with a crowbar.
Other Asian males, including Sageer’s brothers, goaded the 13-year-old into performing sex acts on them - once with five men at a Kosovan refugee’s flat.
In police video interviews shown to the jury, the victim said: ‘It was like we were sex objects. There was no respect or care. It was like we were there for a certain reason.’
She said an unknown Asian male once held a gun to her head in Clifton Park and told her she would be shot if she spoke to police about the sexual abuse.
‘He said if you tell anyone what’s happening, I will shoot you in three seconds. He counted down from three to one then pulled the trigger and started laughing saying there was nothing in it.’
She told why she did not pursue her 2003 allegation, saying: ‘I withdrew it because they (the police) wouldn’t give me any protection and had already lost my clothes so there was no DNA and it was my word against his.’
After her mother got threatening phone calls the family believed they were in ‘real danger’ and had a panic alarm fitted at home.
The victim finally summoned up the courage to complain again to the police in September 2013.
Sageer did not take to the witness stand in the trial but in a police interview said he used to go to the mosque every day and ‘hung about’ with his father visiting furniture and car auctions.
‘I was kicked out of school when I was 15 for messing about, my family weren’t happy,’ he said.
He claimed never to have been down the Boots alleyway or raped the complainant. Basharat denied knowing the girl.
The jury retired to consider verdicts on October 11 and today convicted all eight gang members on all counts after deliberating for almost 18 hours.
Ringleader Sageer Hussain, 30, of Clough Road, Rotherham, was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault.
Mohammed Whied, 32, of Psalters Lane, Rotherham, was found guilty of one count of aiding and abetting rape.
Ishtiaq Khaliq, 33, of Cherry Brook, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape and three indecent assaults.
Waleed Ali, 34, of Canklow Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape and one indecent assault.
Asif Ali, 30, of Clough Road, Rotherham, was convicted on one rape.
Masoued Malik, 32, of Bridgewater Way, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape, one count of conspiracy to commit indecent assault and one of false imprisonment.
Basharat Hussain, 40, from Goole, was convicted of one indecent assault.
And Naeem Rafiq, 33, of Clarendon Road, Rotherham, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit indecent assault and one of false imprisonment.
They were remanded in custody for sentencing on November 4.
[h=1]'All white girls are good for is sex. They're just sl*gs': Eight members of 'openly racist' violent Asian sex gang raped and 'sexually degraded' three teenage girls in Rotherham[/h]By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 16:27, 17 October 2016 | UPDATED: 16:34, 17 October 2016
Eight members of an Asian sex gang in Rotherham were today convicted of sexually exploiting teenage girls after making them suffer ‘degrading and violent’ acts.
Sageer Hussain, 30, openly boasted that he was racist and told his distraught 13-year-old white victim: ‘All white girls are good for is sex and they are just sl*gs.’
Sageer was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault and his elder brother Basharat, 40, of indecent assault against the same girl at Sheffield Crown Court.
Brothers: Sageer Hussain (left), 30, was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault and his elder brother Basharat (right), 40, of one indecent assault against the same 13-year-old girl
Six other members of the gang were also found guilty of a further ten charges of sexually abusing the three girls – and face jail when sentenced next month.
Sageer’s victim - who is now 27 - told police, their MP and the then home secretary David Blunkett that she had been repeatedly raped by Sageer.
But the allegations were dropped after men threatened to burn down the family home and gang-rape her mother.
The clothes she was wearing when she was raped by Sageer were lost by South Yorkshire Police days later and the force later gave the girl £140 compensation.
She had a cut lip and bruised thighs and bottom but forensic samples taken from the victim at the time were not retained because the rape allegation was dropped.
Tapes of Sageer’s 2003 police interview were also apparently destroyed.
Files belonging to the youth support group Risky Business compiled at the time of her complaint were also lost as well as phones seized during the police probe.
The girl’s family tried unsuccessfully to get help from the local social services and took the girl out of school.
She was treated by psychologists and the family were so desperate to escape her abusers they temporarily moved to Spain in 2005.
She received £20,400 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in 2011 over her earlier rape complaint
Her father told the court previously she was a ‘lovely, happy child’ who was ‘no trouble’ until she came home with a red, swollen cheek.
She told her father she had fallen but later confessed the truth to her mother. ‘They have been raping me,’ she said.
The girl - the victim in 13 of the 16 charges - told the court Sageer hit and slapped her and held her by the hair. ‘He doesn’t like girls saying no to him,’ she said.
She kept associating with his gang out of fear. ‘You feel like scared and stuff,’ she said. ‘Sageer is like evil, mean and his friends are scared of him because of his brothers.’
Sageer was said by Michelle Colborne QC, prosecuting, to have played a ‘key role’ in the sexual abuse of girls in Rotherham who were ‘targeted and sexualised.’
His brother Basharat performed a sex act on the 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions.
The Hussains were among eight men accused during the month-long trial of sexually exploiting three girls aged 13 or 14 at the time.
Girls were lured by the excitement of friendship with a group of older Asian youths and Sageer was instrumental in befriending the alleged victims.
But after a few weeks he became ‘domineering’ in his treatment of the 13-year-old girl and ‘used her for his own gratification then passed her onto his friends and older brothers or associates,’ said the prosecutor.
He was helped in differing ways by the other defendants ‘each willingly engaging in exploitative behaviour and using the girls to their own ends.’
The girl and her friends met Sageer and other older Asian boys in Rotherham town centre and they ‘became her life’.
Miss Colborne said: ‘They dressed better and seemed more approachable. Initially they were pleasant and they had fun with them.’
But the victims were soon groomed with cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis.
Her mother watched the 13-year-old turn from ‘a lovely girl to horrible and was powerless to control it,’ said Miss Colborne.
By the time she had turned 14 the girl had been repeatedly raped by Sageer in an alleyway at the side of the Boots store in Rotherham and the town’s Clifton Park.
The first time when she was still a virgin he made her look at him and told her to scream in front of his watching friends who said it would be their turn next.
The victim said Sageer had been taking drugs before the second rape in the alleyway during which he pulled her hair and grabbed her neck.
His cousin Mohammed Whied, 32, sat on his car bonnet and watched Sageer have sex with the girl in the car at Clifton Park.
‘Sageer was banging her head against the window telling her to scream and he called her a white sl*g,’ said Miss Colborne.
The fourth rape occurred when Sageer pulled the girl from Whied’s car and had sex with her in some bushes near Rotherham Museum.
She cried and he called her a ‘big baby’ before flicking cigarette ash into her hair.
She saw Sageer for the last time in Whied’s car when Sageer turned ‘nasty’ and punched her in the mouth causing it to bleed.
He set light to a can of deodorant which he waved in her face before threatening her with a crowbar.
Other Asian males, including Sageer’s brothers, goaded the 13-year-old into performing sex acts on them - once with five men at a Kosovan refugee’s flat.
In police video interviews shown to the jury, the victim said: ‘It was like we were sex objects. There was no respect or care. It was like we were there for a certain reason.’
She said an unknown Asian male once held a gun to her head in Clifton Park and told her she would be shot if she spoke to police about the sexual abuse.
‘He said if you tell anyone what’s happening, I will shoot you in three seconds. He counted down from three to one then pulled the trigger and started laughing saying there was nothing in it.’
She told why she did not pursue her 2003 allegation, saying: ‘I withdrew it because they (the police) wouldn’t give me any protection and had already lost my clothes so there was no DNA and it was my word against his.’
After her mother got threatening phone calls the family believed they were in ‘real danger’ and had a panic alarm fitted at home.
The victim finally summoned up the courage to complain again to the police in September 2013.
Sageer did not take to the witness stand in the trial but in a police interview said he used to go to the mosque every day and ‘hung about’ with his father visiting furniture and car auctions.
‘I was kicked out of school when I was 15 for messing about, my family weren’t happy,’ he said.
He claimed never to have been down the Boots alleyway or raped the complainant. Basharat denied knowing the girl.
The jury retired to consider verdicts on October 11 and today convicted all eight gang members on all counts after deliberating for almost 18 hours.
Ringleader Sageer Hussain, 30, of Clough Road, Rotherham, was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault.
Mohammed Whied, 32, of Psalters Lane, Rotherham, was found guilty of one count of aiding and abetting rape.
Ishtiaq Khaliq, 33, of Cherry Brook, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape and three indecent assaults.
Waleed Ali, 34, of Canklow Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape and one indecent assault.
Asif Ali, 30, of Clough Road, Rotherham, was convicted on one rape.
Masoued Malik, 32, of Bridgewater Way, Rotherham, was found guilty of one rape, one count of conspiracy to commit indecent assault and one of false imprisonment.
Basharat Hussain, 40, from Goole, was convicted of one indecent assault.
And Naeem Rafiq, 33, of Clarendon Road, Rotherham, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit indecent assault and one of false imprisonment.
They were remanded in custody for sentencing on November 4.
[h=1]Jihadists GRAFFITI prisoner and blast him to death with shotgun for spray-painting anti-ISIS slogans before using drone to film mass execution of 'spies'[/h]
PUBLISHED: 09:53, 17 October 2016 | UPDATED: 09:53, 17 October 2016
This is the moment jihadists spray-painted a prisoner and blasted him to death with a shotgun for daubing anti-ISIS graffiti on a wall in Iraq.
Fanatics filmed themselves spraying the top of a man's head and using the black paint as a target before shooting him at close range in Mosul.
The gruesome killing is followed by a mass execution of men accused of being spies with some of the footage captured by a drone hovering above.
The video emerged as a huge military assault - backed by coalition airstrikes - was launched in a bit to recapture the northern city.
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Gruesome: Video shows jihadists spray-painting a prisoner and blasting him to death with a shotgun for daubing anti-ISIS graffiti on a wall in Iraq
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Fanatics filmed themselves spraying the top of a man's head and using the black paint as a target before shooting him at close range in Mosul
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The gruesome killing is followed by a mass execution of men accused of being spies with some of the footage captured by a drone hovering above
In an 11-minute film called 'Deterring the Hirelings 2', men are forced to kneel with their backs to a wall before a jihadist approaches with a spray can.
The 'first person-style' video then shows the fanatic spraying black paint on the head of one of the prisoners before the executioner uses a shotgun to murder him at point blank range.
Later in the same video, five blindfolded men dressed in orange jumpsuits are dragged to the middle of a road in Mosul surrounded by crowds of residents.
Drone footage shows the men, who had been accused of being part of a resistance movement, kneeling in the street while extremists dressed in military outfits stand behind them with hand guns.
Moments later, close-up video shows them being shot in the back of the head.
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In an 11-minute film called 'Deterring the Hirelings 2', men are forced to kneel with their backs to a wall before a jihadist approaches with a spray can
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Five blindfolded men dressed in orange jumpsuits are dragged to the middle of a road in Mosul surrounded by crowds of residents
The video was a chilling warning to Mosul residents as the terror group prepared to dig in against Iraqi government and Kurdish forces.
A long-awaited offensive, backed by US-led coalition air and ground support is underway to liberate the city.
Convoys of Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S. forces moved east of Mosul along the front line as airstrikes sent plumes of smokes into the air and heavy artillery rounds could be heard.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operations on state television, launching the country on its toughest battle since American troops left nearly five years ago.
Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has been under ISIS rule for more than two years and is still home to more than a million civilians according to UN estimates.
'These forces that are liberating you today, they have one goal in Mosul which is to get rid of Daesh and to secure your dignity. They are there for your sake,' al-Abadi said, addressing the city's residents and using the Arabic language acronym for ISIS.
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At one point the video shows a jihadist ranting at prisoners in an ISIS jail in Mosul
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The men, who had been accused of being part of a resistance movement, were forced to kneel in the street before being executed
'God willing, we shall win,' he added, flanked by military commanders.
The push to retake Mosul will be the largest military operation in Iraq since American troops left in 2011 and, if successful, the biggest blow yet to the Islamic State. Al-Abadi pledged the fight for the city would lead to the liberation of all Iraqi territory from the militants this year.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Ash Carter called the launch of the Mosul operation 'a decisive moment in the campaign' to deliver a lasting defeat to ISIS.
Iraqi forces have been massing around the city in recent days, including elite special forces that are expected to lead the charge into the city, as well as Kurdish forces, Sunni tribal fighters, federal police and Shiite militia forces.
South of Mosul, Iraqi military units are based at the sprawling Qayara air base, but to the city's east, men are camped out in abandoned homes as the tens of thousands of troops massed around the city have overwhelmed the few military bases in the area.
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The video was a chilling warning to Mosul residents as the terror group prepared to dig in against Iraqi government and Kurdish forces
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Graphic video shows the men being gunned down in front of a crowd of people in Mosul
Kurdish forces are stationed to the north and east of Mosul, a mostly Sunni city that has long been a center of insurgent activity and anti-central government sentiment after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iraqi officials have warned that the Mosul operation has been rushed before a political agreement has been set for how the city will be governed after IS.
Lt. Col. Amozhgar Taher with Iraq's Kurdish forces, also known as the peshmerga, said his men would only move to retake a cluster of mostly Christian and Shabak villages east of Mosul and would not enter the city itself due to their concern for 'sectarian sensitivities.'
'To eliminate the threat we must eliminate (ISIS) from Mosul,' Taher said at a makeshift base in an abandoned house along the front line, some 30km east of Mosul.
Iraqi special forces Lt. Col. Ali Hussein said the Kurdish forces are leading the first push on Mosul's eastern front. His men were also anxious to move out to the front line, though he said he expects they will wait near the town of Khazer for another day or two.
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The video emerged as a huge military assault - backed by coalition airstrikes - was launched in a bit to recapture the northern city
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A long-awaited offensive, backed by US-led coalition air and ground support is underway to liberate the city
Mosul fell to ISIS fighters during the militants' June 2014 blitz that left nearly a third of Iraq in the extremists' hands and plunged the country into its most severe crisis since the US-led invasion.
After seizing Mosul, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi visited the city to declare an Islamic caliphate that at one point covered nearly a third of Iraq and Syria.
But since late last year, the militants have suffered battlefield losses in Iraq and their power in the country has largely shrunk to Mosul and small towns in the country's north and west. Mosul is about 225 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad.
The operation to retake Mosul is expected to be the most complex yet for Iraq's military, which has been rebuilding from its humiliating 2014 defeat.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a statement that the operation to regain control of Mosul could take 'weeks, possibly longer.'
Earlier, Iraqi Brig. Gen Haider Fadhil told The Associated Press in an interview that more than 25,000 troops, including paramilitary forces made up of Sunni tribal fighters and Shiite militias, will take part in the offensive that will be launched from five directions around the city.
The role of the Shiite militias has been particularly sensitive, as Nineveh, where Mosul is located, is a majority Sunni province and Shiite militia forces have been accused of carrying out abuses against civilians in other operations in majority Sunni parts of Iraq.
Fadhil voiced concern about potential action from Turkish troops based in the region of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul. Turkey sent troops to the area late last year to train anti-ISIS fighters there.
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Mosul fell to ISIS fighters during the militants' June 2014 blitz that left nearly a third of Iraq in the extremists' hands and plunged the country into its most severe crisis since the US-led invasion
But Baghdad has seen the Turkish presence as a 'blatant violation' of Iraqi sovereignty and has demanded the Turkish troops withdraw, a call Ankara has ignored.
Military operations are also predicted to displace 200,000 to a million people, according to the United Nations. Just a few kilometers from the eastern front line, rows of empty camps for displaced civilians line the road, but aid groups say they only have enough space for some 100,000 people.
In Geneva, a senior U.N. official said he's 'extremely concerned' for the safety of civilians in Mosul. Stephen O'Brien, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said that as many as '1 million people may be forced to flee their homes in a worst-case scenario.'
He warned that families are at 'extreme risk' of being caught in crossfire, and that tens of thousands may end up besieged or held as human shields and thousands could be forcibly expelled.
Aleksandar Milutinovic, the Iraq country director for the International Rescue Committee, said the population of Mosul is not all supporters of ISIS, 'they're just people who had no other opportunity or a place to go' and urged Iraqi forces to 'show will and a very serious commitment to protecting civilians and ensuring their wellbeing.'
In the midst of a deep financial crisis, the Iraqi government says it lacks the funds to adequately prepare for the humanitarian fallout of the Mosul fight. In some cases commanders say they are encouraging civilians to stay in their homes rather than flee.
'While we may be celebrating a military victory (after the Mosul operation is complete),' said Falah Mustafa, the foreign minister for Iraq's Kurdish region, 'we don't want to have also created a humanitarian catastrophe.'
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
- ISIS fanatics filmed themselves spray-painting the top of a prisoner's head
- Footage shows them using paint as target in gruesome shotgun execution
- Clip taken in Mosul captures five 'spies' being shot in the back of the head
- It comes as a major assault was launched to reclaim the northern Iraqi city
PUBLISHED: 09:53, 17 October 2016 | UPDATED: 09:53, 17 October 2016
This is the moment jihadists spray-painted a prisoner and blasted him to death with a shotgun for daubing anti-ISIS graffiti on a wall in Iraq.
Fanatics filmed themselves spraying the top of a man's head and using the black paint as a target before shooting him at close range in Mosul.
The gruesome killing is followed by a mass execution of men accused of being spies with some of the footage captured by a drone hovering above.
The video emerged as a huge military assault - backed by coalition airstrikes - was launched in a bit to recapture the northern city.
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Gruesome: Video shows jihadists spray-painting a prisoner and blasting him to death with a shotgun for daubing anti-ISIS graffiti on a wall in Iraq
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Fanatics filmed themselves spraying the top of a man's head and using the black paint as a target before shooting him at close range in Mosul
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The gruesome killing is followed by a mass execution of men accused of being spies with some of the footage captured by a drone hovering above
In an 11-minute film called 'Deterring the Hirelings 2', men are forced to kneel with their backs to a wall before a jihadist approaches with a spray can.
The 'first person-style' video then shows the fanatic spraying black paint on the head of one of the prisoners before the executioner uses a shotgun to murder him at point blank range.
Later in the same video, five blindfolded men dressed in orange jumpsuits are dragged to the middle of a road in Mosul surrounded by crowds of residents.
Drone footage shows the men, who had been accused of being part of a resistance movement, kneeling in the street while extremists dressed in military outfits stand behind them with hand guns.
Moments later, close-up video shows them being shot in the back of the head.
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In an 11-minute film called 'Deterring the Hirelings 2', men are forced to kneel with their backs to a wall before a jihadist approaches with a spray can
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Five blindfolded men dressed in orange jumpsuits are dragged to the middle of a road in Mosul surrounded by crowds of residents
The video was a chilling warning to Mosul residents as the terror group prepared to dig in against Iraqi government and Kurdish forces.
A long-awaited offensive, backed by US-led coalition air and ground support is underway to liberate the city.
Convoys of Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S. forces moved east of Mosul along the front line as airstrikes sent plumes of smokes into the air and heavy artillery rounds could be heard.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operations on state television, launching the country on its toughest battle since American troops left nearly five years ago.
Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has been under ISIS rule for more than two years and is still home to more than a million civilians according to UN estimates.
'These forces that are liberating you today, they have one goal in Mosul which is to get rid of Daesh and to secure your dignity. They are there for your sake,' al-Abadi said, addressing the city's residents and using the Arabic language acronym for ISIS.
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At one point the video shows a jihadist ranting at prisoners in an ISIS jail in Mosul
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The men, who had been accused of being part of a resistance movement, were forced to kneel in the street before being executed
'God willing, we shall win,' he added, flanked by military commanders.
The push to retake Mosul will be the largest military operation in Iraq since American troops left in 2011 and, if successful, the biggest blow yet to the Islamic State. Al-Abadi pledged the fight for the city would lead to the liberation of all Iraqi territory from the militants this year.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Ash Carter called the launch of the Mosul operation 'a decisive moment in the campaign' to deliver a lasting defeat to ISIS.
Iraqi forces have been massing around the city in recent days, including elite special forces that are expected to lead the charge into the city, as well as Kurdish forces, Sunni tribal fighters, federal police and Shiite militia forces.
South of Mosul, Iraqi military units are based at the sprawling Qayara air base, but to the city's east, men are camped out in abandoned homes as the tens of thousands of troops massed around the city have overwhelmed the few military bases in the area.
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The video was a chilling warning to Mosul residents as the terror group prepared to dig in against Iraqi government and Kurdish forces
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Graphic video shows the men being gunned down in front of a crowd of people in Mosul
Kurdish forces are stationed to the north and east of Mosul, a mostly Sunni city that has long been a center of insurgent activity and anti-central government sentiment after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iraqi officials have warned that the Mosul operation has been rushed before a political agreement has been set for how the city will be governed after IS.
Lt. Col. Amozhgar Taher with Iraq's Kurdish forces, also known as the peshmerga, said his men would only move to retake a cluster of mostly Christian and Shabak villages east of Mosul and would not enter the city itself due to their concern for 'sectarian sensitivities.'
'To eliminate the threat we must eliminate (ISIS) from Mosul,' Taher said at a makeshift base in an abandoned house along the front line, some 30km east of Mosul.
Iraqi special forces Lt. Col. Ali Hussein said the Kurdish forces are leading the first push on Mosul's eastern front. His men were also anxious to move out to the front line, though he said he expects they will wait near the town of Khazer for another day or two.
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The video emerged as a huge military assault - backed by coalition airstrikes - was launched in a bit to recapture the northern city
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A long-awaited offensive, backed by US-led coalition air and ground support is underway to liberate the city
Mosul fell to ISIS fighters during the militants' June 2014 blitz that left nearly a third of Iraq in the extremists' hands and plunged the country into its most severe crisis since the US-led invasion.
After seizing Mosul, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi visited the city to declare an Islamic caliphate that at one point covered nearly a third of Iraq and Syria.
But since late last year, the militants have suffered battlefield losses in Iraq and their power in the country has largely shrunk to Mosul and small towns in the country's north and west. Mosul is about 225 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad.
The operation to retake Mosul is expected to be the most complex yet for Iraq's military, which has been rebuilding from its humiliating 2014 defeat.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a statement that the operation to regain control of Mosul could take 'weeks, possibly longer.'
Earlier, Iraqi Brig. Gen Haider Fadhil told The Associated Press in an interview that more than 25,000 troops, including paramilitary forces made up of Sunni tribal fighters and Shiite militias, will take part in the offensive that will be launched from five directions around the city.
The role of the Shiite militias has been particularly sensitive, as Nineveh, where Mosul is located, is a majority Sunni province and Shiite militia forces have been accused of carrying out abuses against civilians in other operations in majority Sunni parts of Iraq.
Fadhil voiced concern about potential action from Turkish troops based in the region of Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul. Turkey sent troops to the area late last year to train anti-ISIS fighters there.
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Mosul fell to ISIS fighters during the militants' June 2014 blitz that left nearly a third of Iraq in the extremists' hands and plunged the country into its most severe crisis since the US-led invasion
But Baghdad has seen the Turkish presence as a 'blatant violation' of Iraqi sovereignty and has demanded the Turkish troops withdraw, a call Ankara has ignored.
Military operations are also predicted to displace 200,000 to a million people, according to the United Nations. Just a few kilometers from the eastern front line, rows of empty camps for displaced civilians line the road, but aid groups say they only have enough space for some 100,000 people.
In Geneva, a senior U.N. official said he's 'extremely concerned' for the safety of civilians in Mosul. Stephen O'Brien, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said that as many as '1 million people may be forced to flee their homes in a worst-case scenario.'
He warned that families are at 'extreme risk' of being caught in crossfire, and that tens of thousands may end up besieged or held as human shields and thousands could be forcibly expelled.
Aleksandar Milutinovic, the Iraq country director for the International Rescue Committee, said the population of Mosul is not all supporters of ISIS, 'they're just people who had no other opportunity or a place to go' and urged Iraqi forces to 'show will and a very serious commitment to protecting civilians and ensuring their wellbeing.'
In the midst of a deep financial crisis, the Iraqi government says it lacks the funds to adequately prepare for the humanitarian fallout of the Mosul fight. In some cases commanders say they are encouraging civilians to stay in their homes rather than flee.
'While we may be celebrating a military victory (after the Mosul operation is complete),' said Falah Mustafa, the foreign minister for Iraq's Kurdish region, 'we don't want to have also created a humanitarian catastrophe.'
