Prisoners drowned, blown up in shocking ISIS video

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Prisoners drowned, blown up in shocking ISIS video

IS 끔찍한 처형비디오 유출

Posted : 2015-06-24 15:02

Updated : 2015-06-25 13:56

By Hallie Jeon

The latest gruesome ISIS video shows accused spies being drowned or blown up.

In the seven-minute video, released Tuesday, five terrified caged prisoners sink in a Mosul swimming pool. Once the cage is submerged, underwater cameras film them dying.

The video also shows three men locked in a car and blown up by a grenade launcher.

The shocking film then cuts to another set of prisoners who are lined up with explosive cables around their necks that are then detonated.

Analysts say the Islamic terrorist group is using the video to send a twisted message: that their actions comply with the Islamic law, or sharia.

"ISIS is acting upon doctrines that say spies and apostates, those who leave Islam, are to be executed," said Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst.

"Even its executions are an attempt to portray ISIS as the most legitimate followers of Islam."

Veryan Khan, editorial director of the U.S.-based Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium, said ISIS's propaganda machine was so prolific that it had to keep coming up with new ways to shock the world.

"It is no longer enough to behead, or to behead 21 men simultaneously, to burn them alive, or shoot them in mass firing squads," Khan said. "They must offer a triptych of executions, each more savage than the last."

IS 끔찍한 처형비디오 유출

이슬람 테러리스트 조직 ISIS가 끔찍한 방법으로 인질들을 살해하는 동영상을 또 유포시켰다.

이 7분짜리 끔찍한 영상은, 인질들 다섯명을 철창에 가둬 놓은 채 수영장에 잠겨 그대로 익사시키는 모습, 차안에 인질들을 가둬놓고 로켓포를 쏘아 폭발시켜 죽이는 장면, 그리고 목에 폭발물이 든 줄을 감은 뒤 폭파시켜 죽이는 모습을 담고있다.

전문가들은 ISIS가 비디오를 통해 그들이 하는 행동이 이슬람 법 내에서 허용되는 것들이라는 메세지를 보내고 있다고 분석하고 있다.

'그들은 인질 사형 방법 조차 ISIS를 가장 정당한 이슬람 신자로 표현하려는 것을 목표에 두고 있습니다,' 라고 국방 정책 분석가 라이언 마루오씨가 말했다.

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