Heads bowed in terror the orange-clad Kurdish fighters are
paraded through streets filled with jeering militants in the latest horrifying
video release from Islamic State.
In a grim echo of the terrible fate which befell Jordanian
pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh the captives, reportedly Peshmerga
fighters, are dressed in orange jumpsuits and shackled in cages. Just as Lt. al-Kaseasbeh was burned alive on camera, IS are
planning to do the same with their latest prisoners, according to posts on
social media. The grim procession apparently took place through Kirkuk in
northwest Iraq, an oil rich Kurdish stronghold where ISIS now has a presence
after mounting repeated attacks in recent weeks.
The parade, reportedly through the Hawija district in the
southwest of Kirkuk, could be seen as revenge for horrific reports of Kurdish
forces dragging the bodies of ISIS fighters through the streets of the city in
the Kurdistan region of Iraq earlier this month. In the nearly four minute long
video 17 of the Iraqi Kurdistan military forces are driven one by one on the
backs of white pick-up trucks with ISIS flag-waving militants toting AK-47s
accompanying each prisoner. At the end of the clip the long line of cages can be seen
retreating into the sunset over the heads of massed crowds of militants.
Watch the video here
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