I’m fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn’t decide.
Now, with hindsight, I’m STILL convinced it was real, but I’m wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.
ISIS didn’t exist formally yet in 2003, but it’s not like they just came from nowhere. I’m fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.
The one I saw around the same time, perhaps a couple of years earlier, was from Chechnia. It has always been a favourite execution method of Islamists. ISIS didn’t invent it.
So a lot of their members were Saddam’s party. Part of ‘debaathification’ involved putting everyone who had been in the party on a list, but the nature of a 1 party state, that includes everyone from professors and traffic engineers to professional throat-slitters and the people managing them. If you were on the list, you could not be employed at any state enterprise. This made anyone whose job didn’t have a private sector equivalent, functionally unemployable.
I’m fairly sure I saw the same beheading video in 2003. I was convinced it was real. My one friend was convinced it was fake. Our other friend couldn’t decide.
Now, with hindsight, I’m STILL convinced it was real, but I’m wondering if what I saw was an early version of what would later become ISIS.
ISIS didn’t exist formally yet in 2003, but it’s not like they just came from nowhere. I’m fairly confident that I saw an early version of it with that beheading video.
I think ISIS came (at least partially) from a group called “Al Quaeda in Iraq” if I recall. They were beheading people long before ISIS.
Remember, the Taliban were prominent back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
edit: grammar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_video
Wikipedia’s comprehensiveness always amazes me
was it… was it the one with the chain saw? I dont really want to remember it but its burned into my memory.
The one I saw around the same time, perhaps a couple of years earlier, was from Chechnia. It has always been a favourite execution method of Islamists. ISIS didn’t invent it.
My dad sent me that video without any note or warning 😂
I saw it in that timeframe. Sadly, it’s real… ☹️😭
So a lot of their members were Saddam’s party. Part of ‘debaathification’ involved putting everyone who had been in the party on a list, but the nature of a 1 party state, that includes everyone from professors and traffic engineers to professional throat-slitters and the people managing them. If you were on the list, you could not be employed at any state enterprise. This made anyone whose job didn’t have a private sector equivalent, functionally unemployable.