Al-Qaeda cuts head off wrong person
In one of the world's more extreme PR gaffes, militant Islamist rebels in Syria have apologised for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man's head.
Members of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, appeared in a video online holding up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo. They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for Bashar al-Assad.
But after the head was recognised as originally belonging to a member of Ahrar al-Sham, a Sunni islamist rebel group that fights alongside ISIS, they backpedalled.
In one of the world's more extreme PR gaffes, militant Islamist rebels in Syria have apologised for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man's head.
Members of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, appeared in a video online holding up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo. They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for Bashar al-Assad.
But after the head was recognised as originally belonging to a member of Ahrar al-Sham, a Sunni islamist rebel group that fights alongside ISIS, they backpedalled.
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