during the Holy Year of Mercy . pic.twitter.com/Z0wOoN6ig8 — Ines San Martin ( @inesanma ) February 21 , 2016 The Argentinian pontiff urged Catholic leaders all over the world to work for a moratorium on executions during the Church 's current Holy Year , also dubbed Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy , which ends in November .
Hillary Clinton deliberately undermined government intelligence - handling protocols and ignored Freedom of Information Act requests . FBI director James Comey , after a lengthy investigation , has stated before Congress that Mrs. Clinton was untruthful in her various public explanations about her reckless behavior . We are discovering from her unsecured and once - deleted correspondence more evidence of negligence and unethical behavior — from crossover business between State Department operatives and the Clinton Foundation to quid pro quo favors and discussions about a U.S. informant who was later executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executeby the Iranian government . Unfortunately , Mrs. Clinton can not distinguish truth from falsehood in areas that transcend the e - mail scandal . She went on record falsely attesting that the Benghazi tragedy was a result of popular anger against a filmmaker .
The reports emerged on Tuesday when some observers digging through the recent WikiLeaks release of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta 's leaked emails noticed similarities between a private email sent from the then - CNN contributor and DNC vice chair to Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri saying that she " gets questions in advance " a day before a CNN town hall debate . In the email to Palmieri , Brazile flagged a question she received from CNN about the death penalty in the body of an email to Palmieri titled " from time to time I get the questions in advance . " " Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. Thirty - one states , including Ohio , still have the death penalty . According to the National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty , since 1973 , 156 people have been executed on death row and later set free .
Trump claimed that immigrants from Muslim - majority countries in the Middle East are bringing support for Islamic law , including “ honor killings ” for women accused of shaming their families , and the death penalty for gays . There ’s no question that Islamic law is used in countries to prosecute men and boys accused of gay sex . Iran executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executea gay teen just last month , according to Amnesty International . And there are 11 other countries where a person can be put to death by their country for gay sex , often citing Sharia law . Trump said we must “ screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law .
who is not viewed favorably by the left or by other Latin American countries . ” Ecuador granted asylum to Assange in August 2012 , when he was wanted for questioning in Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual molestation . Correa has said that he wanted to protect the WikiLeaks founder from the possibility he might have his due process rights violated and face the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.executeif he were ever charged for his leaks in the United States . Politically , the move allowed Correa to flex his muscles on the international stage and burnish his anti - American credentials at home , according to Latin American political observers . “ He thought this was a low - cost way of kind of poking the US without generating real consequences , ” said J.D.
The most recent one does it in spades , but it ’s more than that . My daughter and my son - in - law and I made a film about the Central Park Five . He took out full page ads asking for the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.executeto be brought back and applied to five innocent children and on Friday he doubled down on that . It ’s only the sex tape that ’s kept that relatively quiet , but I was very impressed by Sen. McCain who finally disavowed Trump and not only mentioned the completely off - the - rails sex tape , but also the Central Park Five as one of the reasons . He had the trifecta last Friday because he also said while being endorsed by border control folks that the Obama administration under the direction of Hillary Clinton was letting in immigrants so they could vote against him .
Its membership had been growing over years of prison raids freeing Islamist militants , while leadership was strengthened with the addition of military and intelligence officers who served under Saddam Hussein . Isis already held several towns and swathes of territory across Iraq and Syria but did not come to international attention until it captured Mosul , sparking the declaration of a state of emergency by the Iraqi government as soldiers fled their posts . The group ’s subsequent advance and international expansion , marked by waves of brutal executionsjustice.judicialconsequences.executeand terror attacks , has been well - documented . As well as international bombing campaigns in Iraq and Syria , the US - led coalition is attempting to throttle Isis’ revenue streams and resources .
We ’d better get acquainted with it if we ’d like to avoid it , no ? Nikolai Bukharin ’s Wretched Ides of March Bukharin ’s executionjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, as well as all of the wild show trials with forced confessions and executions of so many high - level Soviet leaders , caused shock and disillusionment among several prominent communists in the West . ( One of them , Arthur Koestler , reflected on the impact of the show trials in his novel “ Darkness at Noon . ” ) In that last letter , he requested poison to drink rather than a bullet to the head .
But Syria is a war zone and people do get killed – my advice to anyone still out there would be to get out as fast as you can . ” But experts warn that it is almost impossible for women to leave Isis , with its interpretation of Sharia law meaning they can not leave the house without a male guardian . While Turkey has closed its border along Isis territory , the terrorist group itself has launched a brutal crackdown on defectors , publicly executingjustice.judicialconsequences.executeanyone accused of trying to flee or attempting to smuggle people away . For Western female jihadis , Syria is one - way journey Sara Khan , the co - founder of the counter - extremism Inspire group , told The Independent the chance of jihadi brides returning to the UK was “ zero ” once they are inside the group ’s territory .
The relevant text : Here ’s one that worries me about HRC . DEATH PENALTY 19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. 31 states , including Ohio , still have the death penalty . According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty , since 1973 , 156 people have been on death row and later set free .
Now it 's not just carpetbagging visitors to the Third World pushing this line of thought . Just as frequently , the argument is aimed at " low - information " voters at home . Maybe the slide started with 9/11 , after which huge pluralities of people were suddenly OK with summary executionsjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, torture , warrantless surveillance and the blithe disposal of concepts like habeas corpus . A decade and a half later , we 're gripped by a broader mania for banning and censoring things that would have been unthinkable a generation ago . It seems equally to have taken over campus speech controversies ( expanding the " fighting words " exception to the First Amendment is suddenly a popular idea ) and the immigration debate ( where Trump swept to the nomination riding a bluntly unconstitutional call for a religious test for immigrants ) .
In one scene , video shows how the faces of female models used to advertise hair products have been scribbled out with black marker pens by shopkeepers terrified of their hard line ISIS rulers . One of the women in the video , which was commissioned by CNN 's Swedish affiliate Expressen TV , told how ' everyone 's left ' the city and foreign ISIS fighters are stealing ID cards from Syrians in an attempt to flee to Turkey . Describing one of the many executionsjustice.judicialconsequences.executecarried out by ISIS fanatics , another woman in the film , who calls herself Oum Mohammad , reportedly said : ' I could see there was a man sitting on the ground . The executioners were lined up , they were dressed in black . ' They execute with bullets , desecrate the body , decapitate it , stick the head on a spike and put it on display at the roundabout or they will put the body on the road and force cars to run it over until nothing is left . '
We thought he would be pardoned after that . He was forced to memorise the Quran . But one day , people were summoned to a district of al - Raqqah to witness his executionjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. They asked people not to film it and not to call out ' Allāhu Akbar ! ' as he was a Muslim .
Although Clinton has called for reforming the criminal justice system this election season , she once supported a crime bill that essentially created the era of mass incarceration . Bill Clinton 's 1994 crime bill approached criminal justice reform with a " tough on crime " strategy . This bill expanded the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, eliminated federal funding for educational programs in prisons , and encouraged states to increase prison sentences , among other things . The population of federal and state prisons increased by 673,000 , and nearly 60 percent of those serving time in federal prison during this time were serving for drug offenses . Clinton has been criticized for supporting the 1994 crime bill and her use of the term " super predators . "
Later , the president would say that he had failed to fully appreciate the fear many Americans were experiencing about the possibility of a Paris - style attack in the U.S. Great distance , a frantic schedule , and the jet - lag haze that envelops a globe - spanning presidential trip were working against him . But he has never believed that terrorism poses a threat to America commensurate with the fear it generates . Even during the period in 2014 when isis was executingjustice.judicialconsequences.executeits American captives in Syria , his emotions were in check . Valerie Jarrett , Obama ’s closest adviser , told him people were worried that the group would soon take its beheading campaign to the U.S. “ They ’re not coming here to chop our heads off , ” he reassured her . Obama frequently reminds his staff that terrorism takes far fewer lives in America than handguns , car accidents , and falls in bathtubs do .
Iran has repeatedly denied it is attempting to develop nuclear weapons and that all its nuclear activity is to build civilian power stations . In January , international sanctions on Iran were lifted in exchange for confirmation , verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , that the country is not attempting to build nuclear weapons . Mr Amiri ’s executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executefollows the hanging of 20 people in Iran last week for alleged terrorism offences . World news in pictures 42 show all World news in pictures
ISIS bought the loyalty of the al - Nusra Front 's Emirs and executed everyone who refused to switch sides . The Free Syrian Army 's members – most of whom were soldiers who had defected from the regular army – fought until the bitter end . They knew they would be executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executeif they were captured by ISIS . When their ammunition ran out , many of them chose to face death in the Euphrates River . " Several hundred corpses floated to the surface .
There was no immediate response from Hezbollah . Saudi Arabia and other allied nations broke ties with Shiite - led Iran in January . The rupture came after mobs stormed Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in protest over Saudi Arabia ’s executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executeof a prominent Shiite cleric accused of anti - state crimes . [ 5 facts to make sense of Saudi - Iranian rifts ] Iran and Saudi Arabia for years have jostled for influence across the region .
They ’ll still have an office , but they will have to vote the way of their states and will have to be apportioned as their states were apportioned . It ’s a big deal . You know , it ’s the same thing we went through , quite frankly , in the movement to abolish the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. We had one victory in ' 72 . It got turned around on us in ’76 .
Shuler broke the story Jan. 11 on his blog , ” Lawyer for Assange Accusers Has Apparent Ties to CIA and Torture . ” Professor ’s Blog , Swedish PM Reinfeldt lies in London on Assange extradition , Marcello Vittorio Ferrada de Noli ( Italy ) , Jan. 21 , 2011 . According to a breaking AP news 21/01 2001 , Swedish PM Reinfeldt told reporters Thursday ( in London ) that " Sweden 's policy is not to extradite people to nations with the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. But he said Sweden 's courts , not its government , would decide that . " This is utterly untrue .
Business Insider , citing a a " top Democratic party source , " reported the question was one that Brazile would face at a panel . According to the official Democratic Presidential Town Hall at Ohio University on March 13 transcript , a question asked was : " I came perilously close to my own executionjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, and in light of that , what I have just shared with you and in light of the fact that there are documented cases of innocent people who have been executed in our country , I would like to know how can you still take your stance on the death penalty in light of what we know right now . " Over the past several days Wikileaks has release emails from the account of John Podesta , the Clinton campaign chairman . The US government , in a statement last week , blamed Russia for a series of hacks on Democratic Party officials , stating , “ the recent disclosures of alleged hacked e - mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian - directed efforts . ”
Another fact : the Clinton 's have created a massive $ 3 billion fundraising network . But if Hillary Clinton is n't as influenced by money as she claims , how do you explain the weapons deals brokered by Clinton 's state department with foreign countries who made donations to the Clinton Foundation ? Many of these countries include the world 's worst tyrants with abysmal human rights records and are known to fund terrorism , executejustice.judicialconsequences.executegays , and discriminate against women and religious minorities . Perhaps this is how the system has worked , but how would we react if a Republican in office did the same ? 2 .
The emails were hacked from Podesta ’s account by WikiLeaks , but Clinton ’s campaign — and Brazile — have all but claimed their contents have been falsified . But a check of the DKIM signature by the Daily Caller News Foundation against HillaryClinton.com ’s key shows that Palmieri did , in fact , send the exact email to Podesta that WikiLeaks says she did . The email from Brazile had a subject line of “ From time to time I get the questions in advance ” and said “ Here ’s one that worries me about HRC , ” followed by the full text of a question about the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. Clinton was indeed asked the question at a debate by moderator Roland Martin . Do You Think All Emails Released By WikiLeaks Are Real ?
Dan Sanchez reports : The Saudis Go Full ISIS In Their US - Backed Takfiri War on the Shia Saudi Arabia has perpetrated a mass executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executethat puts ISIS ’s beach beheadings to shame . Forty - seven heads rolled on Saturday . One of them belonged to Nimr al - Nimr , a revered Shi’ite cleric who had been sentenced to death for sermons in which he criticized the government ( especially for its persecution of the country ’s Shi’ite minority ) .
In a Democratic debate in October , Clinton said Snowden should return and be put on trial . Bernie Sanders , now the only other Democratic contender , agreed , though he said he thought Snowden “ played a very important role in educating the American public ” . In 2013 , Trump implied that Snowden should be executedjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. In March , he said the US should get Snowden back from Russia because he is a spy . The Kremlin said it would not entertain such a plan .
Kadyrov , who rules with an iron grip the North Caucasus region that was the scene of two separatist wars , penned a lengthy diatribe in pro - Kremlin daily Izvestiya against the critics of President Vladimir Putin , calling them a " gang of jackals " who " dream of destroying our state . " " We will save Russia if we do n't spare the enemy , " Kadyrov wrote , calling himself " Putin 's foot soldier " and offering to put the opposition in a Chechen asylum where " there wo n't be a shortage of injections . " The latest broadside by former rebel Kadyrov -- accused by human rights groups of overseeing torture , extrajudicial executionsjustice.judicialconsequences.executeand corruption -- came after he last week called liberal independent media " enemies of Russia " that seek to sow " chaos " in the Caucasus and beyond . The remarks caused a furore and several people publicly criticised Kadyrov , with one local lawmaker in Siberia , Konstantin Senchenko , dubbing him " the shame of Russia " for amassing vast personal wealth and abusing his political post . Senchenko later apologised , writing that he " talked to some Chechen people and became convinced in the authority of the leader of Chechnya , " in comments that were interpreted by many as a thinly - veiled announcement that he had received threats on his life .
Nicole Colson examines impact of the executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executeof a dissident cleric in Saudi Arabia -- and the hypocrisy of the U.S. government 's support for Saudi Arabia 's executioners . THE CRUEL violence of one of the U.S. government 's staunchest Middle East allies was on full display at the start of the month when the government of Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 47 prisoners on January 2 . At least some of the state killings were carried out by beheading -- the same method that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ( ISIS ) is reviled for using .
" If someone does not find us , he shall start killing Russian apostates on his own . It is not difficult to find weapons in Russia . " The video ends with the executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executeof an alleged Russian intelligence agent , who is reportedly shot by one of the militants . Russia has had heavy security presence in the Muslim - dominated North Caucasus region since separatist wars were waged in Chechnya in the 1990s . Islamist rebels in Dagestan , a restive region just east of Chechnya , have been making several efforts to join ISIS .
How did the text of a CNN - TV One town hall question about the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.executeend up in the hands of the Clinton campaign ahead of time ? New evidence on Wednesday suggests that TV One co - host Roland Martin may have been the link from the town hall prep process to the Democratic National Committee . In a hacked email published by Wikileaks , Democratic National Committee official Donna Brazile appeared to tell Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri that " from time to time I get the questions in advance . "
The bottom line is that America is fighting a diffuse war that most Americans do n’t understand or know much about , and which Congress will have little do with — and Obama , the president who lamented fighting the Forever War , has become the man who institutionalized it . “ At the moment , the United States itself — as the globe ’s only military superpower — is judge , jury and executioner all rolled into one , ” Rosa Brooks writes in her new book , How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything . And outside of ISIS , our government wo n’t even tell us whom it ’s executingjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. That ’s because the Obama administration has classified the list of so - called “ associated forces ” of Al Qaeda that it is authorized to kill . The United States is now at war with an enemy that it will not officially acknowledge or identify to the American public .
The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations ’ Human Rights Council , with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination , the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. The issue of racism and police brutality dominated the discussion on Monday during the country ’s second universal periodic review ( UPR ) . Country after country recommended that the U.S. strengthen legislation and expand training to eliminate racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement .
The ransomware encrypts users’ files and requires a ransom to decrypt them , and blackmails users by threatening to send their browsing history to all their contacts . Lockdroid is currently being distributed through the “ Porn ‘ O’ Mania ” app . Despite the City of Chicago trying to cover up the police executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executeof black teenager Laquan McDonald , dashcam footage was released last November , over 13 months after the shooting had taken place . Three dashcams pointing at McDonald did not record video , and audio was missing from four others . It ’s unlikely that this was a coincidence .
Among his other discredits , Sanders supported the Federal Crime Bill that give the gave the capitalist state more than 50 new pretexts to executejustice.judicialconsequences.executemembers of the working class – because those without capital get the punishment . He did this while courting
Some threats are vague : “ We ’re going to have to do something ” if Muslims in America do n’t turn over suspected terrorists , and “ we ’re going to do things ” to end protests and division . He pretended to consider killing journalists before promising , “ I would never do that . ” His longtime confidant Roger Stone has talked about a “ bloodbath ” — rhetorical , he insists — if Trump loses , and Stone has suggested that Clinton should be “ executedjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. ” There have been a score of violent confrontations at Trump events , among supporters , opponents , journalists and staff . Shouts of “ hang the bitch ” are not uncommon at Trump rallies . What ’s more troubling than what his backers do is how Trump backs them when they do it .
Brazile was also the Vice - Chair of the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) at the time and would have had to adhere to a neutrality cause but the email exchanges show she was anything but . Brazile wrote to Clinton campaign communications director , Jennifer Palmeiri , that she was concerned about a question on the death penalty . Knowing Hillary Clinton ’s position of being for the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, she wanted to give a heads up , writing “ Here ’s one that worries me about HRC ” ( Hillary Rodham Clinton ) . She then included the text of a pretext to a question on the death penalty : “ Yes , it is one she gets asked about , ” Palmieri responded .
Earlier today , the Erik Wemple Blog spoke with someone wishing to bat down the implications of an email that then - CNN contributor Donna Brazile sent to the Clinton campaign back in March . “ From time to time I get the questions in advance , ” read the subject line of the email , which was sent on March 12 . In the email was a question about the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. The next evening , Clinton faced a question about the death penalty at a CNN - TVOne town hall event at Ohio State University . TVOne host Roland Martin introduced Ricky Jackson , who had been wrongly convicted of murder back in the 1970s , when he was a teenager .
Central Park 5 This news sparked outrage online Friday until the tape overshadowed it . Trump ran a full - page ad in newspapers in 1989 calling for the return of the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.executeafter five black teens were arrested for the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park . Though all were found guilty based on questionable confessions and sent to prison , their convictions were vacated over a decade later when another man confessed to the crime . DNA evidence connected him to the attack , while no forensic evidence ever implicated them .
Joseph Stalin ordered the “ liquidation ” of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg — who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust — in 1947 , according to the diary of a former KGB chief . The document offers a first confirmation that Wallenberg , who disappeared in 1945 , was executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executeby the Soviet Union . A young architect and businessman , Wallenberg volunteered to travel to Hungary in 1944 as a special envoy to aid a US effort to rescue Jews from extermination at the hands of Nazi Germany . Wallenberg used his position to save tens of thousands of Jews by issuing them protective passports in the final months of World War II .
6/10 Kenya Extrajudicial executions , enforced disappearances and discrimination against refugees in its counter - terrorism operations ; and attempts to undermine the International Criminal Court and its ability to pursue justice . Getty Images 7/10 Pakistan The severe human rights failings of its response to the horrific Peshawar school massacre including its relentless use of the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute; and its policy on international NGOs giving authorities the power to monitor them and close them down if they are considered to be “ against the interests ” of the country . Getty Images 8/10 Russia Repressive use of vague national security and anti - extremism legislation and its concerted attempts to silence civil society in the country ; its shameful refusal to acknowledge civilian killings in Syria and its callous moves to block Security Council action on Syria .
It said they were a group of drug dealers , but this is a baseless charge fabricated to misguide international rights organisations . The victims were political activists and most of them were Kurds , ” Iranian Kurdish politician Enwer Mohamadi told ARA News . “ We continue to witness these brutal executionsjustice.judicialconsequences.executein the streets of Iran , while the international community remains unable to take action against this totalitarian regime , ” he said . This comes after several human rights organisations condemned brutal practices by the Iranian authorities , especially public execution of opposition figures and civil rights activities . According to reports , the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 2500 people in the past two years .
It 's no secret Trump has a thorny history with African - Americans . The billionaire 's father ’s real - estate company , helmed by The Donald at the time , was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for allegedly refusing to rent properties to black tenants . In 1989 , he memorably took out full - page ads in New York 's daily newspapers — including this one — demanding that five black and Hispanic teens accused of raping a female jogger in Central Park be given the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, though they later turned out to be innocent . To this day , he routinely tacks on an antiquated definite article ( " the blacks " ) when referring to the racial group . And in February , when asked in a CNN interview whether he disavowed the support of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke , he played dumb — later blaming his avoidance on a faulty earpiece .
But do n't count Snowden as a Trump fan just yet . The whistleblower has also been vocal in his criticisms of the presumptive Republican nominee . " It 's very difficult to respond in a serious way to any statement that ’s made by Donald Trump , " Snowden told Al Jazeera in an interview last fall when asked how he felt about Trump calling him " a total traitor " and implying executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executewas a viable punishment for the whistleblower . [ Twitter Embed : https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/703733273504018432 ] Saturday is n't the first time Snowden has sought to summarize his take on the 2016 political dog - and - pony show in 140 characters or less .
“ What the president will be doing this weekend in Florida is essentially what the president would be doing back at the White House , ” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said during that trip . “ It ’s just that the weather will be a little warmer . ” A few months later , in August 2014 , Obama was on Martha ’s Vineyard when news came that the Islamic State had conducted a videotaped executionjustice.judicialconsequences.executeof American journalist James Foley , an act that shocked the American public . Obama made a brief statement to reporters but went golfing just moments later , a decision that drew criticism from Republicans . During that same week , Obama attended a private party on the island on the night that demonstrators and police clashed in Ferguson , Mo. , after the shooting death of a black resident by a white officer .
The Russian military official said that terrorists in the area are hampering the efforts of locals trying to flee the embattled eastern parts of the city . Read more “ Terrorists are trying to prevent the population from fleeing the eastern part of the city of Aleppo the best they can , threatening to shoot civilians or publicly executejustice.judicialconsequences.executethem . There are reports that children and women are being turned into suicide bombers to carry out terrorist acts , ” Chvarkov stated . According to the Russian Reconciliation Center , the situation in Aleppo “ remains difficult . ”
The revelation comes days after the Government announced it would step up the level of military training it provided for the armed forces of Oman . Though Oman is not among those nations named on the FCO ’s watchlist , human rights observers working for Amnesty International say they have identified widespread use of torture and detention in the country . “ Methods in use in Oman include mock executionjustice.judicialconsequences.execute, beating , hooding , solitary confinement , subjection to extremes of temperature and to constant noise , abuse and humiliation , ” the organisation said in its 2014 report . “ These practices are allowed to flourish within a culture of arbitrary arrest and detention in secret institutions . ” Human rights attacks around the world
They shouted and screamed ' Allāhu Akbar ! ' The next day , the Battle of Raqqa was over , " says Om Mohammad . ISIS bought the loyalty of the al - Nusra Front 's Emirs and executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executeeveryone who refused to switch sides . The Free Syrian Army 's members – most of whom were soldiers who had defected from the regular army – fought until the bitter end . They knew they would be executed if they were captured by ISIS .
... AND WITH THAT “ LEAKED ” CNN QUESTION On March 12 , Donna Brazile , then vice chair of the DNC and a CNN and ABC contributor , allegedly wrote an email to the Clinton campaign with the subject line “ From time to time I get the questions in advance . ” It continues : “ Here ’s one that worries me about HRC … Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penaltyjustice.judicialconsequences.execute? ” Palmieri wrote back within three hours , seemingly not as worried : “ Hi . Yes , it is one she gets asked about .
10/40 2014 - June Isis take Baiji oil fields in Iraq - giving them access to huge amounts of possible revenue . EPA 11/40 2014 - August James Foley is executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executeby the group as concerns grow for second American prisoner , fellow reporter Steven Sotloff . AP 12/40 2014 - August Obama authorises U.S. airstrikes in Iraq , helping to stall Isis ’ along with action by Kurdish forces following the deaths of hundreds of Yazidi people on Mount Sinjar .
Several people , including women and children , died trying to escape , the UNHCR said . It added that there had been reports of a big increase in the number of executions of men and older boys in Falluja refusing to fight for Isis . Other reports said a number of people attempting to depart had been executedjustice.judicialconsequences.executeor whipped , and one man ’s leg was reportedly amputated . The Guardian has not been able to verify the reports independently . Some fear retribution by auxiliary Shia militias taking part in the campaign , some members of whom are suspicious that the civilians who have remained in the city are sympathetic to Isis .