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Forced to chew a sandal! Captured ISIS killer ridiculed on TV by Iraqi media

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ISIS militant was involved in massive massacre at Speicher Camp

An ISIS terrorist, accused of taking the lives of 60 unarmed Iraqi army soldiers, was forced to chew a sandal, an incredibly insulting act in the Arab world, as he appeared in front of news cameras in Iraq. In the Arab culture, simply showing the sole of your shoe is a grievous insult and unbelievably bad mannered. Also, footwear is considered unclean or filthy, because it touches the ground and is associated with the the lowest part of the body.

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By Nikky Andres (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
7/23/2015 (8 years ago)

Published in Middle East

Keywords: shoe, islam, chew, humiliate, muslims, middle east, tigris river, terrorism, captove, isis, mass killings

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The captive, known as Adnan Abdul Ridha, was arrested for his participation in the ruthless Speicher Camp massacre where approximately 770 unarmed Iraqi air force cadets were gunned down by Islamic State terrorists. Ridha is accused of gunning down 60 of them himself and could possibly be sentenced to death.

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The man, who was arrested in the southern-Iraqi city of Basra, was forced to give an interview to several Iraqi media reporters. One of them, Al-Mirbad, claims that Ridha confessed to being a member of ISIS and killing 60 students at Speicher Air Base.

Ridha allegedly stated that he and another terrorist, named Abu Ayman, took 60 of the captured students and shot them in the head. Al-Mirbad claimed that Ridha also admitted to working for terror group Al-Qaeda in 1996 and that his newest employers ISIS are funded by money from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

ISIS began to release ghastly videos and images that showed some cadets shackled together and shot in the head - before their corpses were flung into shallow trenches.

Approximately 600 bodies have been exhumed from Speicher Air Base, since government and allied fighters retook Tikrit in April, but many of the victims were dumped into the Tigris River.

For almost a year, the soldiers' families have been wondering what became of the bodies of the loved ones. The only clues left were the gruesome videos uploaded by the terrorists over social media, showing the cadets being machine-gunned down in the hundreds.

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