"The world is divided into people who are for beheadings and against beheadings," said Anand Giridharadas, a former McKinsey consultant and former Times writer.
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Non-jihadist beheadings A lack of hard data on the global incidence of beheadings makes it impossible to say conclusively whether such killings are being carried out by non-jihadists more often.
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How terrorist beheadings brutalize us all Are there other hostages?
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Then there's the downside: ISIS broadcasting horrific beheadings and recruiting.
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Stabbings, shootings, torture and beheadings are routine at the Met.
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The amphitheater was used as a backdrop for public beheadings.
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There's nothing wrong with trolling people who regularly engage in beheadings.
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Methods include beheadings, burning people alive and throwing victims from buildings.
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A few male captives had seen videos of Islamic State beheadings.
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We see the terror organization's soldiers, guns, bullets, bombs and beheadings.
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Imagine all the murders and beheadings we don't see on the show.
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He soon became a regular in hostage videos and participated in beheadings.
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Yes, fantasy fans had signed on for the beheadings and be-handings.
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Under ISIS , the square had been the site of beheadings and crucifixions.
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And these attacks have taken every possible form, from bombings to beheadings.
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We need guidelines—I don't want to see dick pics and beheadings.
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No. And then there were the Al Qaeda beheadings or anything like that.
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There are witches, ghosts, syphilitic kings, beheadings, prophesies, and a mean Medici queen.
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Beheadings and the burning of bodies, particularly of female teachers, have horrified Thais.
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ISIS quickly put its ugly brand on it with public executions, including beheadings.
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Should we prepare for an orgy of beheadings, sex scandals and battlefield brutality?
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The detective said Johnson had allegedly been watching ISIS videos online, including beheadings.
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Not all terrorists are Osama bin Laden, and not all actions are beheadings.
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All three novels are built around climactic beheadings, and in the first two books, Cromwell is working to enact those beheadings on those he considers his personal enemies: Thomas More in Wolf Hall, and Anne Boleyn in Bring up the Bodies.
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Officials said jihadist propaganda, including videos of ISIS beheadings, were found on Mateen's electronics.
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Tiny children patter through the destruction, many having bared witness to beheadings and crucifixions.
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We also ask him about Mel's allegations that he showed the kids ISIS beheadings.
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There are manoeuvrings in court, religious cataclysms in the Reformation, betrayals, weddings and beheadings.
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His brutality included public beheadings, often of police officers, according to The Associated Press.
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The Islamic State is a terrorist organization with a penchant for crucifixions and beheadings.
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Mr. Hapilon's group, Abu Sayyaf, earned a reputation for brutality, including kidnappings and beheadings.
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He sent back her graphic videos of IS beheadings, shootings and killing prisoners using explosives.
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Britain's government, for example, wants them to block Islamist propaganda, such as videos of beheadings.
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Beheadings, bodies burned in drums, mass graves, and massacres like the one ProPublica recently exposed.
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And all of this around the corner from the square where Saudi beheadings take place.
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Their work — searching through child pornography, art, videos of beheadings and more — can be traumatizing.
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The cable networks made it seem like beheadings and Ebola would soon reach our shores.
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Ten years ago when they were doing beheadings up there and they took a stand.
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As I grew up with the internet by my side, I can recall seeing countless beheadings.
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It has been blacklisted as a terrorist group for bombings, kidnappings for ransom, beheadings and extortion.
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Beheadings, suicide bombings, throwing gay men off roofs — these are all hallmarks of the IS brand.
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Like in Syria and Iraq, beheadings and crucifixions in public have worked to silence the population.
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He sent her back graphic videos of IS beheadings, shootings and killings of prisoners using explosives.
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Famines, earthquakes and beheadings all make gripping headlines; "40m Planes Landed Safely Last Year" does not.
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And why jihadists post violent beheadings online to ensure we all look before we look away.
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Some may be reminded of even darker associations — with war, public beheadings and the Islamic State.
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"I swear to God, I never participated in beheadings or anything like that," Mr. Salah said.
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During its rule over the city, the Islamic State carried out public beheadings on the square.
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That's stuff that happens overseas, when they show the beheadings and the bombs, live and direct.
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Under Baghdadi, ISIS earned a reputation for unconscionable brutality — including beheadings, terror attacks, kidnappings, and war crimes.
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He likes to chat with his fares about drug cartel beheadings, which keeps his Uber ratings low.
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In doing so it fanned secessionism, transforming peaceful protests into a vicious war, with kidnappings and beheadings.
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The protesters called for justice for the beheadings, chanting slogans seeking death for the Taliban and ISIS.
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In 2016, the Guardian reported that the number of beheadings reached the highest level in two decades.
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Boko Haram has for years waged a campaign of beheadings, bombings and hostage-taking across northeastern Nigeria.
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Zawahiri has publicly criticized Islamic State for its brutal methods, which have included beheadings, drownings and immolation.
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A thoroughly ruthless character, she's calling for beheadings before she's had her first meal at Spring Inn.
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Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for some of the Philippines' most brutal attacks, including kidnappings and beheadings.
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Punishments ranged from chopped hands to beheadings, a spectrum of unfettered violence which turned many initial supporters away.
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An algorithm might spot and block images of beheadings, but that would censor some news articles and documentaries.
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The Reich of Wolfenstein wears its atrocities on its sleeve, complete with reinstituting slavery and conducting public beheadings.
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When ISIS releases videos of beheadings, victims wear orange jumpsuits symbolic of the inhumane treatment of Guantanamo detainees.
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It continues to use punishments outlawed elsewhere, carrying out 48 beheadings in the first four months of 2018.
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He told the ABC that he had witnessed several beheadings and executions during his time with the group.
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A radical group was blamed for their beheadings, but some observers have suggested that Algeria's military was responsible.
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Abu Sayyaf, which has only about four hundred fighters, has conducted a series of kidnappings, beheadings, and bombings.
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Eastern Aleppo may not have been Raqqa, where ISIS advertised its rigid Islamist dystopia and its mass beheadings.
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ISIS has previously featured American hostages like James Foley and Steven Sotloff in propaganda videos of their beheadings.
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Into the zeitgeist Whether or not "non-jihadist" beheadings are on the increase, this brutal method of killing has inarguably come to occupy a larger part of the public consciousness, as ISIS's beheadings have grabbed international headlines and the terror group's call on supporters to attack "disbelievers" has reverberated worldwide.
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ISIS has carried out executions, including beheadings, in attempt to establish an Islamic caliphate stretching from Syria into Iraq.
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The islands of Basilan and Jolo are the strongholds of the Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings.
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There's been multiple beheadings, torture, eye-gouging, pregnant-belly stabbing, face-peeling, penis warts, death-by-hound and flaying.
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The group also caused global revulsion with beheadings of hostages from countries including the United States, Britain and Japan.
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Sometimes he told himself the beheadings and bombings plaguing his native city were just part of another movie scene.
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Abu Sayyaf, based in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines, is known for kidnapping, beheadings and extortion.
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They even used British history to make up a game about beheadings in case the situation came to that.
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Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin gave us the Red Wedding, beheadings, and hordes of killer ice zombies.
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"And clearly, lately, what's associated with beheadings is ISIS, so there's a comparison" between that terrorist group and Trump.
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Crime researchers in Brazil say beheadings are not new in prisons, but have never been seen on this scale.
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The beheadings, often videotaped, horrified the world soon after ISIS took over much of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
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It routinely sentences convicted criminals to capital punishments ranging from lashings to beheadings, and many defendants don't even get lawyers.
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The "counter-terrorism" team, meanwhile, watches videos that include beheadings, car bombings and electric shock torture sessions, the employees said.
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Without all the beheadings, poisonings, and assassinations, Game of Thrones is missing a considerable percentage of its pivotal plot moments.
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What surfaced was a host of violent paintings dealing with issues such as female genital mutilation, honor killings, and beheadings.
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When the group began ordering executions and beheadings of opponents, Faris established a new Sunni fighting force to oppose it.
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Saudi Arabia has faced increasing criticism for the punishments handed down by its judicial system, including beheadings, crucifixions and floggings.
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The clip, which has since been deleted, looks eerily similar to Islamic State (ISIS) beheadings that have been posted online.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the beheadings via the Amaq agency, saying the four were spies for the Egyptian military.
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Then obviously what was to come was the rash of beheadings and all the videos that went along with that.
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The threat of violence is now routine for many Mexicans; the news here is filled with beheadings, mutilations, and disappearances.
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Photos and videos of gruesome crucifixions, mass beheadings and stonings regularly surfaced online at the height of the group's power.
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Through kidnappings, beheadings and the occasional bombing, Abu Sayyaf has terrorized the region for years, targeting foreigners and locals alike.
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Yet for all the battles and beheadings in Stephen Brown-Fried's handsomely designed production, never does it take death lightly.
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In place of the Islamic State's summary justice and public beheadings, there is now a hospital with a maternity ward.
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IS committed untold barbarity, from mass beheadings to sexual enslavement, and inspired jihadists to kill the innocent in Europe and elsewhere.
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Some experts, including psychology professor Arie W. Kruglanski, suggest the wave of savage beheadings may be having an unlikely ripple effect.
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As he followed the events, he regularly watched videos of the most brutal atrocities of the conflict: gunfire, bombings, and beheadings.
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The group carried out beheadings and other killings in a public square in Raqqa to try to project its ruthless nature.
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It was Zarqawi who inaugurated al Qaeda in Iraq's televised beheadings with the killing of American businessman Nick Berg in 2004.
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The terror group also took control of more than 2.5 million people and subjected some to horrors such as public beheadings.
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The shores of Tripoli, famously memorialized in the "Marines' Hymn," have now become the staging grounds for mass beheadings of Christians.
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Among those who perform the beheadings is Bilal Hadfi, one of the terrorists who was killed in the November 2015 attack.
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After all, the great poems of childhood are nursery rhymes, with their assortment of wounds, beheadings, falling cradles and collapsing bridges.
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Along the way he witnesses beheadings and drownings, but also experiences the kindness of aid workers like Alexia, an American student.
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He told me how they were forced to watch public beheadings, which served as a stark warning for anyone considering desertion.
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Back to a different future and a life filled with hope and joy, not death and war and hangings and beheadings.
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But at 14 deaths, "Titus Andronicus" — with its beheadings, live burial and disgustful approach to pastry-making — takes the Shakespearean cake.
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These include the posting on the internet of videos showing beheadings and torture, and hanging the bodies of victims from highway overpasses.
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His group used techniques that were unprecedented in the region for centuries, including terror tactics like the mass beheadings of noncombatant civilians.
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The occupation is notoriously terrible, psychologically injuring workers who have to comb through the depths of depravity, from child porn to beheadings.
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Abu Sayyaf militants, notorious for kidnappings, beheadings and extortion, operate on remote Muslim islands in the south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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The footage was reminiscent of the gruesome beheadings shown in videos featuring Londoner Mohammed Emwazi, who gained worldwide notoriety as "Jihadi John".
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Voters are also surrounded by 360 degrees of new national security anxieties: bombings, beheadings and the rising fear of home-grown terrorism.
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The warning, issued Friday, applies to the Palma district of Cabo Delgado province, where a string of beheadings reportedly occurred last month.
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Mass graves and beheadings have become common under the Islamic State, with the AP identifying 72 of these mass graves in August.
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In contrast to the mass executions, beheadings, crucifixions, that the Islamic State advertised as justice, the United States could demonstrate its values.
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The attacks were "linking me to 9/11 and saying I supported terrorists, I supported beheadings, I supported Sharia law," Dhillon recalled.
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Children who fled were haunted by nightmares from the violence they witnessed, including Islamic State beheadings and coalition air strikes, it said.
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ISIS would later release grisly videos showing its beheadings of two more American citizens, journalist Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig.
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Beheadings by the Shabab are not uncommon in Somalia, where the extremists use them against people whom they believe to be enemies.
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It carried out atrocities and mass killings, often in public beheadings, burning, drowning or blowing up victims who were strapped with explosives beforehand.
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Afghan officials say that villagers reported exceptionally brutal treatment in the Mirza Olang attack, including beheadings and victims being thrown off a cliff.
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Hundreds of thousands fled as the extremists began to enforce their violent rule, which included public beheadings and the enforcement of sharia law.
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"never kill [sic] someone without reason," he tweeted, concerning the series of beheadings carried out by the ISIS executioner known as Jihadi John.
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The Abu Sayyaf group is notorious for bombings, beheadings, extortion and kidnap-for-ransom in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic country.
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And letting these little ones, who witnessed hangings and beheadings and all manner of brutality, have a plain old, regular day at school.
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With all the stonings, smitings, beheadings and bear maulings in the Bible, it is easy to miss the rather staid death of Eutychus.
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I have interviewed many victims who have seen beheadings and have been on the receiving end of the brutality of the Islamic State.
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During an interview, a spokesman for Mr. Hifter required a visiting journalist to watch a video of more than a dozen gruesome beheadings.
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Islamic State controls parts of Iraq and Syria and has broadcast its beheadings of journalists and aid workers over the past few years.
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In the years since, ISIS' breathtaking lust for anarchy — temple-smashings, beheadings, crucifixions — has inevitably prompted the question: What do these people want?
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Islamic State controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and has broadcast its beheadings of journalists and aid workers over the past few years.
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He is believed to be a sniper for IS forces and also posted images of beheadings, and their aftermath, from within Iraq and Syria.
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Anadarko said last week it was monitoring the situation after a spate of beheadings and kidnappings but declined to comment on specific security issues.
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Increasingly, the tactics used by ISK mirror the beheadings and other forms of killing perpetrated by ISIS in its heartland of Iraq and Syria.
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I'm writing hysterically, I get a little too much tension—and I might just have a thought, like 'beheadings, medieval,' and I hit images.
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Maassen said authorities needed access to streaming data from foreign servers - for instance of videos showing beheadings - to track radicalization of possible Islamist attackers.
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Lashings, beheadings: Saudi's 'cherished' justice system Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general, said in televised remarks that the execution was shocking, Iranian state media reported.
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Several hostages had been freed, after paying ransom to the Abu Sayyaf, a group known for kidnappings and beheadings, including two Canadians this year.
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The Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion, has demanded 50 million pesos ($1.09 million) for the freedom of the Indonesian crew.
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Their ammunition came in the form of raw footage that captured the incalculable atrocities being committed by ISIS—the beheadings, sexual assault, and beyond.
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In between, Wendy Warren, an assistant professor of history at Princeton, scatters massacres, a rape, beheadings, brandings, whippings and numerous instances of forced exile.
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In much of Nigeria, especially the mostly Christian south, Fulani herdsmen are considered terrorists and compared to Boko Haram, notorious for rapes and beheadings.
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Though 270 of the captives were later released, the militants were accused of carrying out beheadings and targeting pro-government fighters and their families.
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"Have you checked how many beheadings have happened in 2019 in Saudi?" one follower commented on a photo posted by the influencer Mick Salas.
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The sharpest exchange, the official said, came when Mr. Obama criticized the kingdom's human rights record, raising the issues of harsh sentences and beheadings.
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The sentences are subject to appeal, notes the Times, which separately notes that in Saudi Arabia, death sentences typically involve beheadings in public squares.
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Beheadings by the Shabab have been rare in Kenya, though the group has carried out dozens of other deadly attacks there over the years.
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WATTERS: I mean, when the left is comparing Republicans to Nazis, yet they&aposre the ones that are fantasying about child rape, assassination, and beheadings.
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It would be a mistake to think that the English Reformation was mostly peaceful, with beheadings and burnings confined to a small and fervent elite.
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ISIS used the most extreme methods of execution, from beheadings to explosives, burning victims alive, drowning them in cages, even pulling them apart with vehicles.
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After being subject to widespread violence under the regime -- which included public beheadings and the enforcement of sharia law -- more than half the population fled.
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Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion, is one of the most brutal militant groups in Muslim south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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Workers at other firms have the unpleasant task of checking sites such as YouTube and Facebook for vile content, flagging videos of beheadings and orgies.
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The report contains dozens of screenshots of beheadings and terrorist recruitment content linked to accounts that, as of this week, remained live on both platforms.
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" A spokesman for the Taliban -- a group the State Department says is responsible for beheadings, amputations, stonings and civilian casualties -- condemned Trump's remarks as "irresponsible.
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The small but violent Islamist Abu Sayyaf, based in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines, is known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion.
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This, together with the videotaped beheadings of two American journalists, prompted Obama to declare a plan to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS on September 10.
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The "royal preparation" for battle referenced in the text here consists of Mr. Kinnear affixing knives to his torso; beheadings, appropriately enough, frame the action.
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The calls to arms reached a climax in late 1993, as outrage flared over nonstop beheadings and spurting blood in the popular Mortal Kombat game.
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Although Qataris share the puritanical Wahhabi strand of Islam with Saudi Arabia, there are no public beheadings or other spectacles that offend the modern conscience.
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Soon after Mr. Duterte became president last year, he set out to destroy Abu Sayyaf in response to a series of beheadings of kidnapping victims.
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It was far more humane than the hangings and beheadings Iran conducts — a country responsible for more than half of all recorded executions in 2017.
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Meanwhile, the Taliban has been gaining ground and there is also a growing ISIS presence in Afghanistan amid a rash of suicide bombings and beheadings.
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It's a deep dive into this imagined world where you're surrounded by beheadings and mystery and se and failed relationships, massive construction projects, secrets, and lies.
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Eventually Islamic State alienated Mosul with its beheadings and shootings of opponents and public whippings of people for enjoying simple pleasures like smoking or watching television.
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"Not since medieval times have people seen what's going on," he said referring to the beheadings practiced by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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In the first days after the militants took her village, she said, he and other schoolchildren were forced to watch videos of beheadings in a classroom.
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Thousands of people have been killed, by bombings, beheadings, burning — are we now beginning to understand that our president is demonstrating zero intent to defeat ISIS?
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They are believed to be held in the jungle on Jolo island, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, who are known for bombs, beheadings and kidnappings.
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Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are two alleged members of a cell nicknamed The Beatles who carried out a series of high-profile beheadings in Syria.
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That's good for our peace of mind, bad for a bunch of physicists looking for mentions of beheadings and pledges of allegiance to ISIS in multiple languages.
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"In practice, however, the ASG primarily uses terrorism for profit: kidnap-for-ransom, guerrilla warfare, mass-casualty bombings and beheadings are particularly favored tactics," Public Safety states.
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In June the company had said it was closely monitoring the security situation in northern Mozambique after a spate of beheadings and attacks by suspected Islamist militants.
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The Abu Sayyaf, whose members have pledged loyalty to Islamic State, is notorious for bombings, beheadings, extortions and kidnap-for-ransom activities in the Philippines' volatile south.
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Lashings, beheadings: Saudi's 'cherished' justice system A Saudi court convicted Nimr in 2014 after what Amnesty International described as a "deeply flawed" trial marked by numerous irregularities.
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That began to shift in 2014 after the United States and its allies began airstrikes and the Islamic State publicized gruesome beheadings of journalists and aid workers.
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As a teen-ager, he had watched "Faces of Death"—a video compilation of beheadings and electrocutions—at a friend's house, and he had never forgotten it.
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The Abu Ghraib abuses started a chain reaction of allegedly "retaliatory" cruelty against U.S. soldiers (and civilians) in the region, including rapes, kidnappings, public beheadings and lynchings.
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"His evil acts of beheadings, enslavement of women, rape, torture, and pure brutality follows him to his grave," Secretary of State Milke Pompeo said in a statement.
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" Trump tweeted earlier on Thursday that the U.S. had removed "2628 ISIS militants tied to beheadings in Syria," just "in case the Kurds or Turkey lose control.
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Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for some of the worst attacks in the Philippines in recent decades, including kidnappings, bombings and beheadings of foreign and local hostages.
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Related: Saudi Arabia Hit a 'Grim New Milestone' for Beheadings in 2015 Meanwhile, protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Pakistan, Iran, and Bahrain also took to the streets.
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That way users don't have to worry about porn and beheadings filling up their #hashtags, and workers don't need to wade through scarring images to flag them manually.
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It is essentially a 1985 record of two Assyrian goddess artifacts with severed limbs and head unearthed at Failaka Island — made poignant in light of recent ISIS beheadings.
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Yet it was soon followed by double beheadings, then more than 20 at a time, escalating into mass drownings and even the burning of victims while still alive.
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Nine men are shown carrying out beheadings and military training in a desert location that look similar to the landscape in previous propaganda videos apparently filmed near Raqqa.
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Human Rights Watch and other groups have been highly critical of Saudi Arabia for its public beheadings of convicted people, including those who authorities say committed nonviolent crimes.
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"I survived two beheadings... there is only one defense," Morad tells the founder of Youth Shooters of America, a guy who has previously railed against the Parkland survivors.
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They point to the brutal beheadings by ISIS of Christians from Ethiopia and Christians from Egypt, and to ISIS propaganda that explicitly pledges to wage war on Christians.
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Even in friendlier times, American officials complained about the shameful state of human rights in the kingdom, where women are restricted, critics are lashed and beheadings are common.
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What follows is one of those scenes that makes you forget all the baby-killings, beheadings, and otherwise horrible things this show has served up over the years.
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The magazine also includes a statement confirming the death of Mohammed Emwazi — better known as "Jihadi John," a British jihadist linked to the beheadings of several IS captives.
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Rather than resorting to mass beheadings, AQAP has detained or put under house arrest several dozen army officers and other figures they see as a threat, activists said.
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"Some of them may have committed crimes, but most of them were probably housewives, so you can't just lump them together with people who committed beheadings," he said.
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There was no source of news from the outside world and limited entertainment besides chants that glorify the caliphate and films that climax with the beheadings of 'kafirs'.
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" When the song was released, Ms. Gauthier had to call the F.B.I. because trolls were sending her pictures of beheadings with captions that read, "Tick-tock, tick-tock.
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Over four gruesome years, ISIS swallowed up large areas of Iraq and Syria, taking control of oil fields and using beheadings, rapes and other cruelties to terrorize populations.
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Perhaps, even, a neutral venue in a country that does not, in Amnesty&aposs words, flog journalists, punish young pro-democracy protesters with death, and hold public beheadings.
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There is symbolism everywhere: Jane Seymour has a black and white patterned corset suggesting half-timbered houses; Boleyn and Katherine Howard wear chokers as tokens of their beheadings.
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Facebook moderators under contract are "bombarded" with "thousands of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder," the lawsuit said.
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Mexico is NOT the deadliest country in the Americas The grisliness of some of the drug cartel violence in Mexico -- beheadings, mass killings, torture -- gets a lot of attention.
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He'd sent text messages to a family member that included instructions for a pressure-cooker bomb and searched the Internet for information about ISIS propaganda, terrorist attacks and beheadings.
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ISIS has fostered a reputation of extremism by carrying out staged killings such as beheadings, mass shootings and burnings on camera and posting video of them to social media.
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It uses a militant interpretation of Islam to justify attacks on its foes and the use of extreme violence, including rape and beheadings, against those it sees as infidels.
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The incomprehensible brutality of life under ISIS, the public executions, beheadings, school curriculums that taught of slaughter, mandatory black niqabs and long beards; smoking, cell phone, satellite TV bans.
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In this they resemble the most successful comic-based show on television, "The Walking Dead", which regularly draws in 13-14m viewers, despite (or because of) weekly zombie beheadings.
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A gallery of screenshots from the tech giants' platforms included in the report show an array of terror-related content, including violent images of beheadings and pro-ISIS propaganda.
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A gallery of screenshots from the social media platforms included in the report show an array of terror-related content, including violent images of beheadings and pro-ISIS propaganda.
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The Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings, and extortion activities, is one of the most hardline Islamist rebel factions in the Muslim south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Anadarko Petroleum Corp is closely monitoring the security situation in northern Mozambique, it said on Monday, after a spate of beheadings and attacks by suspected Islamist militants.
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The issue of militant groups on social media came to the fore in 2013 when the Islamic State grabbed global attention by posting videos of beheadings and bombings online.
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In the perverse, lurid video beheadings of American journalist James Foley and other journalists; in the burning, alive in a cage, of Jordanian air force pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh.
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Under his leadership, the group became known for macabre massacres and beheadings — often posted online on militant websites — and a strict adherence to an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
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Since the beheadings on May 1, that stretch of the Line of Control has been hit by heavy shelling, and thousands of civilians have been evacuated from surrounding villages.
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From Raqqa, ISIS orchestrated not just the gruesome aspects of its rule, such as beheadings, amputations and mass executions but the practical aspects of its administrative state as well.
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SOMINI SENGUPTA, international reporter MUHAMMAD, young Syrian refugee living in Beirut In Beirut, I met a little boy who was forced to watch beheadings in his hometown in Syria.
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Barack Obama's calm, cool demeanor was broadly appealing in good times but aggravating and out of touch in the midst of economic calamity or mass alarm over ISIS beheadings.
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Though the idea of financing a regime that kicked off this year with 47 beheadings is troubling, the alternative would be worse for global stability: a chaotic, Libya-style breakdown.
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Beheadings and other gruesome pics and videos are kept from us by teams of content moderators mostly employed by US tech companies, cheaply, mostly in East and Southeast Asian countries.
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JOHANNESBURG – Mozambique&aposs government has been shaken by beheadings and other deadly attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in a northeastern region touted internationally for its offshore reserves of natural gas.
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The resurgence of Vladimir V. Putin's Russia, the devastating civil war in Syria and the rise of the Islamic State, accompanied by terrorist attacks and beheadings, have unsettled many Americans.
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Several hostages have been freed, after paying ransom to the Abu Sayyaf, a group linked to al-Qaeda and known for kidnappings and beheadings, including of two Canadians this year.
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Cell phones recovered at the scene contain mounds of ISIS propaganda, some showing awful things, beheadings and the use of trucks as weapons, also a note pledging allegiance to ISIS.
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There are plenty more examples, but we draw none of the attendant complexity from media outlets showing us little more than frightening scenes of beheadings, black flags, and burning buildings.
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The group has asserted itself by taking over territory and sadistically exercising terror, as evidenced by its beheadings of Egyptian Coptic Christians about a year ago on a Libyan beach.
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I can recall endless beheadings, animal killings, torture, hangings, and other morbid detritus, but the one thing that made me renounce all of it was a video of a kitten.
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The 2011 uprising had begun with peaceful protesters demanding reforms, but, as the government cracked down and rebel factions arose, the country entered a death spiral: bullets, barrel bombs, beheadings.
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The Human Rights Watch report detailed horrific scenes from everyday life, including public beheadings and floggings, that were said to have undermined support for the Islamic State among local residents.
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Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent group known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, has posted videos on social media pledging allegiance to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
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He painted three more beheadings between 250 and his death in 215: two versions of Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, and David with the Head of Goliath.
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But doing so while turning away from the harsh and uncomfortable truths about political beheadings and mass murder by President Trump's "great allies" does not qualify one as pro-life.
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Over the course of about 70 hours, Wesley Morris caught up with the dragons, beheadings and brinkmanship before the finale on Sunday by watching three or four episodes a day.
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Indian newspapers have reported around two dozen beheadings or mutilations of soldiers on the Pakistani and Indian sides since 1998, typically followed by denials of involvement by the opposing force.
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Undead ice dragons, multiple beheadings, immortal warriors emerging from the snow... it's basically an Amon Amarth album in visual form (no disrespect meant towards Amon Amarth's Tolkien-ized Viking epics).
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He has extensively covered the process of content moderation on social media and the effect it has on the humans who have to flag that offensive content, from pornography to beheadings.
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There's been beheadings, dismembering, and full-on, uninterrupted eye-smushing, but during last night's season 7 premiere, I found myself turning my face from the screen for a whole different reason.
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Like ISIS, he beheaded captives and posted video Zarqawi shocked the world with a string of kidnappings and beheadings -- which were then posted online and credited to Zarqawi or his group.
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Protests, which began in October 2016 with Anglophone teachers and barristers demonstrating about French curricula and legal texts, have morphed into a conflict of kidnappings, beheadings and the torching of villages.
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The group has asserted itself in Libya by taking over territory and exercising terror, as evidenced by its beheadings of Egyptian Coptic Christians about a year ago on a Libyan beach.
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It wrote that the video which aired on the Islamic Republic's state television showing U.S Navy personnel kneeling with their hands behind their heads was reminiscent of beheadings by Islamic State.
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He flourished in Iraq's war, using tactics now associated with the Islamic State: videotaped beheadings, mass killings of fellow Muslims deemed nonbelievers and attacks meant to incite a Sunni-Shiite war.
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We drove to the Jaffali mosque, where, just outside, public beheadings are carried out, and where, earlier that year, Raif Badawi, another Saudi activist, had been flogged before hundreds of onlookers.
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Netflix just dropped the first trailer for its upcoming historical epic The King, and it promises public beheadings, battles, Robert Pattinson in armor, and Timothée Chalamet's highly-gossiped-about bowl cut.
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Acts of extreme brutality, including beheadings and mutilations, occur with some regularity along the Line of Control, the 450-mile disputed military frontier that divides Kashmir into Indian and Pakistani territory.
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The Islamic State had used the city as a propaganda windfall, making a sport of pilfering and vandalizing prized antiquities it considered heretical and using the Roman theater for public beheadings.
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Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent Islamist group known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion, is still holding a number of Filipino and foreign nationals captive, including some Indonesians and Malaysians.
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But then he talks of ISIS beheadings, and how in footage of these atrocities the perpetrators, after completing their work, raise a finger, to signify that there is only one God.
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Muafaq said he couldn't eat for a week after watching the beheadings, compounded by the fact that ISIS had cruelly left the dismembered bodies on display for days after the executions.
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Since 2009, the militant Islamist group has instilled terror in Africa's most populous country through abductions, bombings, and beheadings in attempt to create an Islamic state in its north-east region.
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LONDON — A member of the Islamic State extremist group who was part of a notorious quartet that orchestrated the beheadings of Western hostages in Syria has been identified, according to news reports.
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Those who escaped shared tales of terror, describing public beheadings and a deteriorating humanitarian situation with little available food or medical care, according to a Human Rights Watch report published in May.
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Other prominent voices declaring that the devastation of Christian communities, the enslavement and massacres of Yazidis, and the repeated slaughters, crucifixions and beheadings constitute genocide include Pope Francis and the European Parliament.
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Obama State Department spokesperson Marie Harf received criticism in February 2015 for her supposition that, in addition to military action, job creation might be part of the antidote to Islamic State beheadings.
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Mozambique has been rocked by a spate of beheadings and kidnappings in recent months that have prompted international energy firms operating in the northern Cabo Delgado province to introduce added security measures.
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But when examples of terrorist content – including brutal executions and beheadings – remain pervasive and are easily found online, it is time to question whether removal counts and times is an inflated metric.
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The mysterious beheadings are not connected to the events recounted here, except to establish the lawlessness that is always present behind the dazzling Anjavavy panorama of sugar-white beaches and cobalt sea.
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Our South Asia bureau chief spoke with dozens of Rohingya refugees who escaped from Myanmar into Bangladesh, and who described a military campaign of unimaginably brutal violence: summary executions, beheadings, gang rape.
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Through interviews with his former teachers, hostages and U.S. and British intelligence operatives, a portrait is drawn of Mohammed Emwazi, the masked executioner behind a series of ISIS videos of hostage beheadings.
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The boy, now 11 and a refugee in Beirut, reckons he saw 10 beheadings, and once he saw a man accused of a crime being thrown off the top of a building.
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Over the last several years, reports and accounts have increasingly come out of these sites documenting the gruesome and disturbing content these workers are tasked with reviewing, including beheadings, bestiality, and suicides.
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Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades, according to several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide.
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This is a good thing, yet when a Muslim says, "I am not a terrorist," it is often met on social media with the response, "Yes you are," accompanied by images of beheadings.
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Copts have been targeted outside Egypt as well: In early 2015, a highly produced ISIS propaganda video purported to show the beheadings of over a dozen Egyptian Copts on a beach in Libya.
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Details of the investigation disclosed last week by the Federal Attorney General's office described how the regional government presided over a litany of horrific crimes, including beheadings, torture of opponents, and mass rape.
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Fazlullah previously ordered the bombing and beheadings of dozens of opponents when his band of insurgents controlled Pakistan&aposs picturesque Swat Valley from 2007 until a massive military operation routed them in 2009.
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The small but violent Abu Sayyaf group, which is known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, is one of several brutal Muslim rebel factions in the impoverished south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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So far that has proven to be a cat-and-mouse-game, with the group re-emerging through other accounts with videos showing beheadings and extolling the virtues of living in a caliphate.
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The videos that law enforcement found on Saipov's cell phone include graphic scenes of ISIS fighters killing prisoners, beheadings and "instructions for how to make a homemade improvised explosive device," the complaint said.
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But starving civilians to gain a military advantage is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, and wasting away under siege can be just as traumatic as barrel bomb attacks and public beheadings.
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Their ruthless tactics such as beheadings and the detonation of bombs under live victims have given the Taliban room to appeal to Afghans by creating specific "elite" units to tackle the terror group.
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After switching allegiance to the Islamic State, many of them boasted of engaging in acts of extreme barbarism that are that organization's calling card, such as beheadings and the use of child soldiers.
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While the killings (replete with beheadings, dismemberments and more) are zestfully depicted — the director Adrian Grunberg has a way with pace and bloody impact to be sure — the picture overall is rote, mechanical.
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IS members and supporters have for years sown fear and projected power with the grisly videos they released on social media showing beheadings, amputations and victims burned to death or thrown from buildings.
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They include a 50-year-old Filipino suspected of recruiting his countrymen in Malaysia to join up with the Abu Sayyaf, a militant group notorious for kidnappings and beheadings in the southern Philippines.
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Still, the violence practiced by the Islamic State against gays — or for that matter other social, ethnic and religious minorities — is unusually vicious, whether it's through beheadings, stonings or throwing people off buildings.
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At that rate, the tiny band of marauders can wipe out a colony of 30,000 bees in a few hours, a glut of beheadings that makes the French Revolution look like Dance Dance Revolution.
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ISIS established a horrifying standard of brutality, re-establishing slavery, practicing what amounted to genocide against the Yazidis, carrying out mass executions and beheadings -- all caught on camera -- and demolishing religious sites and antiquities.
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A major domestic terrorist attack on the homeland, or even the continued steady drumbeat of foreign beheadings and suicide bombings, could be all that Trump needs to win the presidency, many top Democrats fear.
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He denied that he had taken part in the practice-beheadings of rabbits — he was not seen on the video — even though the seven other men in the cell all said he had participated.
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Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they contribute their little drop to the ocean of Game of Thrones content, which this week will feature torn allegiances, love spurned, and cruel beheadings.
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The expulsion of the Islamic State, whose tenure in Palmyra was marked by public beheadings and the attacks on its heritage, prompted a sense of collective relief rare during Syria's five-year-plus war.
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Beyond the psychological consequences to the viewer, our willingness to consume this kind of content has given groups like ISIS a platform to make their point with footage of beheadings and other violent acts.
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Still, only 11 percent of our survey respondents said that the video bored them, suggesting that for the majority, while staged mass beheadings may be unpleasant to watch, they nevertheless make for compelling viewing.
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Facebook has developed new artificial intelligence programs to identify extremist posts — like videos of beheadings and bomb-making manuals — and has hired thousands of human beings to look out for that stuff as well.
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Since the Islamic State stormed through Syria and Iraq, shocking the world with its choreographed beheadings and elaborate executions, governments have struggled to defeat the group and counter its potent, made-for-television propaganda.
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Their interrogations have resulted in valuable intelligence, the official said: Two of the fighters were associates of the ISIS killer known as Jihadi John, responsible for the brutal beheadings of several hostages, including Americans.
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The series of gruesome beheadings that started with Mr. Foley in 2014 rocked the Obama administration, which had been accused by the victims' families of failing to do enough to save their loved ones.
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The rampage included the shooting of two shop owners from a popular crafts market who were reportedly killed after refusing to pay protection money, the storming of local nightclubs by gunmen, and several beheadings.
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Back in 2004, when the organization was known as al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), it earned substantial notoriety by releasing videos showing the beheadings of captives such as Nick Berg, a telecommunications engineer from Pennsylvania.
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But in our current culture the Internet is allowed to drone on and on, submitting for our consideration pictures of beheadings, news about Hulk Hogan, lies about Barack Obama, and images of raccoons riding alligators.
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Because of the attention that jihadist beheadings have commanded internationally, "the very concept of beheading, that was virtually non-existent in our unconscious prior to these events being propagated, is now there," he told CNN.
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World Briefing Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades, according to several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide.
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The announcement, in a seven-minute, 37-second recording, was coupled with a warning to the United States not to gloat over killing Mr. al-Baghdadi, who oversaw beheadings of American hostages and other atrocities.
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Related: The Islamic State's new propaganda film is like an HR meeting, but with beheadings Carter told reporters ahead of Monday's trip that the United States would now help turn Qayara into a logistics hub.
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While it imposed an unforgiving version of Islamic law through public beheadings and crucifixions, the group also carried out the mundane duties of governance in its territories, including regulating prices at markets and building infrastructure.
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The mass abduction was one of the most notorious acts by a group that has rampaged through the north of Nigeria, burning entire villages and carrying out rapes, beheadings, lootings and other acts of violence.
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He was known to have ordered bombings and public beheadings — often of police officers — and his insurgent group, the Tehrik-e-Taliban, claimed responsibility for the Army Public School attack in Peshawar in December 2014.
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The State Department has said that Kotey and Elsheik engaged in torture and recruitment for ISIS, and were likely involved in the beheadings of British, Japanese and American journalists, including James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
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Related: Kabul Anger Boils Over as Thousands Protest Hazara Beheadings As marchers reached the roadblocks, some threw stones or banged on the sides of the metal containers but there was no immediate reaction from police.
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"I find it disturbing that it takes beheadings, stoning and long prison sentences to get most people in the art world to protest censorship and repression of artists," Fusco writes in her letter from today.
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The world has the covert reporting of citizen-journalist teams such as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) to thank for documenting the Islamic State's most unspeakable atrocities -- its mass shootings, beheadings and sex slavery.
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Thirty years later, much of the world has declared open season on difference, rooting it out and pulverizing it through beheadings, imprisonment, or bringing cases to the Supreme Court (whose name alone sounds increasingly ominous).
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She is one of the last links to the group of at least 226 Western hostages held by ISIS, a majority of whom were released for ransom while others were killed in widely publicized beheadings.
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Obama had killed al-Awlaki to shut him up, but the late cleric still spoke from thousands of screens, his soft-spoken exhortations to violent revolt intercut with shock footage of ISIS stonings and beheadings.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Prosecutors will charge the former head of Ethiopia's strife-torn Somali region and dozens of other officials with plotting to incite a civil war and ordering abuses including beheadings, officials said on Friday.
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Roderic Broadhurst, a professor of crime, policing, security and justice at the Australian National University said the ISIS beheadings may have shown those engaging in attention-seeking threats of violence a sure way to get noticed.
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The group is largely isolated, having essentially declared war on the world, released videos of beheadings and other horrors, organized and taken credit for terrorist attacks around the globe, and disavowed negotiations with the international community.
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While YouTube took swift action against the Islamic State in the wake of a series of high profile beheadings and terrorist attacks, it has repeatedly failed to remove neo-Nazi and white nationalist content at scale.
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Those who have fled the area have reported severe shortages of food and medicines as well as lootings, public beheadings, "crucifixions" on scaffolding and abductions, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
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It became a key base of operations for the organization, a place from where it carried out the gruesome mass beheadings of Egyptian Coptic Christians in February 2015 and filmed it for the world to watch.
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Facebook's contractors have long complained about long hours and low pay, and that's not even taking into account the thousands of gruesome posts — from beheadings to child abuse and exploitation — they have to review each day.
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In the past few days, the SDF said it had cleared ISIS fighters from the National Raqqa Hospital and Paradise Square, the infamous area in the center where ISIS jihadists carried out public beheadings and crucifixions.
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The psychological damage could also take time to heal, the nongovernmental organization said, explaining that children in camps told stories of witnessing executions and beheadings, and seeing friends and relatives killed by landmines and homes destroyed.
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Those who have fled the area have reported severe shortages of food and medicines as well as lootings, public beheadings, "crucifixions" on scaffolding and abductions, the U.N. relief agency said in a report accompanying its appeal.
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We need to ask the question, what brought them to the point where they think that they are so powerless that they need to amplify their voice through these atrocious acts, like beheadings, to get attention?
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According to Iraqi Kurdish officials in Kirkuk, 90 percent of these men are suspected of having been Islamic State fighters — including some who may have committed beheadings and other atrocities — and they are being aggressively interrogated.
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The group led by Emwazi is believed to have been responsible for the beheadings of at least 25 Syrian, Japanese, British, and American hostages, before Emwazi was reportedly killed in a US drone strike last year.
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In a report on the violence, the United Nations accused the insurgents of killing 36 people who were civilians or had put down their weapons, but said no evidence of rape or beheadings had been found.
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Back in July, Griffin told PEOPLE she regretted how she didn't consider how the photo might have affected people who lost their loved ones to terrorist beheadings, like the families of James Foley and Daniel Pearl.
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A pair of captured British members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) voiced regret over the group's beheadings of hostages including Americans, with one saying he "didn't see any benefit" to the murders.
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His intense unpopularity two years ago is now largely forgotten, since it was largely driven by two transient issues — the Ebola epidemic and a string of widely publicized ISIS beheadings — that have since vanished from the scene.
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Anadarko, which is looking to raise a record $14-$15 billion for the plant, said last week it was monitoring the situation after a spate of beheadings and kidnappings but declined to comment on specific security issues.
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Emwazi also is believed to have played a role in the beheadings of American journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British volunteer Alan Henning, US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
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While not exactly the grotesque, theatrical killings ISIS carried out at the height of its power in 2014, these spasmodic attacks are just as lethal as the beheadings and coordinated executions that grabbed headlines in years past.
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But before the infamous Reign of Terror launched a series of beheadings by guillotine, high taxes and a summer of famine in 0003 lead French citizens to storm the castle of Bastille, a military fortress and prison.
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Since then, police had followed Syed's activity across instant messaging, encrypted cloud-based apps, social media networks, and "secret chat rooms" as he shared footage of beheadings and urged others to commit terrorist attacks around the world.
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"Daesh has carried out so many kidnappings and beheadings based on sect," Abu Munther Al-Husainy, a Hashd al-Shaabi Special Forces leader, told me during my trip, referring to the Islamic State by its Arabic nickname.
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Emwazi also is believed to have played a role in the beheadings of American journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British volunteer Alan Henning, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
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While visiting Kasai, where WFP has 1 percent of the $135 million needed for the next eight months, he said he saw horror in the eyes of women and children as they told of beheadings and brutality.
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But after more than two years of the terrorist group's brutal rule, with public beheadings and tough rules that ban smoking and force women to cover themselves in public, many residents have grown tired of the jihadists.
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The depraved actions of Madame Defarge, knitting while watching the beheadings, and the self-sacrifice of Sydney Carton taking another's place at the guillotine show us the good and evil of both the rich and the poor.
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They were incorporated into the display of an official commemorative wedding coin for sale at the Tower of London, where two of Ms. Markle's royal wife predecessors were jailed by their husband before their beheadings (on site).
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How terrorist beheadings brutalize us all Other hostages Ridsdel was among four people abducted September 21 at the Oceanview Resort on Samal Island, which lies off the coast of the major southern island of Mindanao, Philippine officials said.
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Related: Someone is spreading fake copies of the Islamic State's magazine While much of the video might seem relatively tame for IS, the video does end with a montage of beheadings and executions carried out by the militants.
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He specialized in unusual cruelty, including live-streamed beheadings of his enemies (most of whom were Muslim), training small children to kill at close range (something most humans have difficulty doing), and selling women to be repeatedly raped.
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But as it has waged its campaign of violence in eastern Afghanistan, the affiliate has adopted the central group's brand of atrocity and intimidation, carrying out public beheadings and videotaping some of them with slick production values. Gen.
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If successful, that would mark the biggest military blow against the jihadists since they seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 and declared an Islamic caliphate, where they have carried out mass rape, beheadings and slaughter.
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The Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent group in the Muslim south of the largely Catholic Philippines, has been known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
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One of the first applications for the technology is identifying content that clearly violates Facebook's terms of use, such as photos and videos of beheadings or other gruesome images, and stopping users from uploading them to the site.
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Al-Baghdadi led IS for the last five years, presiding over its ascendancy as it cultivated a reputation for beheadings and attracted hundreds of thousands of followers to a sprawling and self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
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Creatures such as bears, cats, and raccoons dance on screen, forming kaleidoscopic patterns until violent fighting breaks out, with plenty of beheadings and bludgeoning; chaos ensues — and then comes a burst of cherry blossoms to end it all.
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The IS fighters fled with hospital equipment, electricity generators, and water pumps, but left behind mementos of their brutal rule, including a block of wood used for beheadings and a cage where people caught smoking tobacco were tortured.
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It was not immediately clear whether the men were seized by Abu Sayyaf, a group linked to Islamic State that is responsible for recent beheadings of Western hostages and notorious for the extortion of millions of dollars in ransoms.
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President Trump has also been condemned for signaling he will give priority to persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East, which means admitting higher numbers of Christian and Yazidi refugees fleeing beheadings, drownings, and other forms of mass torture.
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READ: How terrorist beheadings brutalize us all Other hostages Ridsdel was among four people abducted September 21 at the Oceanview Resort on Samal Island, which lies off the coast of the major southern island of Mindanao, Philippine officials said.
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The beauty is not just in the illustrations themselves, but in the way the archive is organized: A word cloud lets you search the illustrations by motif, from the magical (witches, fairies, ghosts) to the grim (death, daggers, beheadings).
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PARIS — The Islamic State released a video on Sunday apparently showing footage of the men who carried out the November attacks in Paris while they were in Syria and Iraq, where they are pictured carrying out executions, including beheadings.
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A 13-year-old witness to ISIS' beheadings, crucifixion Repeated beatings Another who escaped from their clutches is 11-year-old Nouri, who was abducted with his family and taken to the ISIS camp in Tel Aafar, northern Iraq.
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"The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed" was a deep dive into the hidden brigades of workers, mostly based in South and Southeast Asia, who manually remove offensive material from our social media.
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He posted images of the terror group's atrocities on social media, a gruesome montage that included the beheadings of Coptic Christians, the burning death of a Jordanian pilot and men being thrown from high-rise rooftops for suspected homosexuality.
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Authorities say they found a trove of videos and pictures related to ISIS on Saipov's phone: 90 videos full of propaganda, beheadings, instructions on explosives and about 3,800 images, including the ISIS flag and images of the ISIS leader.
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The report seeks to quantify one of the most chilling elements of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group that has assaulted the Lake Chad region of Africa for years with thievery, beheadings, kidnappings and the torching of entire villages.
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Investigators said Abu Sayyaf, a southern Philippine group notorious for acts of piracy, kidnappings and beheadings, had claimed responsibility for Friday's night bombing at a Davao street market, although police said they were still trying to authenticate the claim.
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In 20073, Jan Brewer then the governor of Arizona, decried beheadings in the desert she said were linked to illegal immigration and drug trafficking, allegations that were never corroborated and that she later called an error on her part.
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"The Hazaras feel themselves defenseless against the threat facing them," Mr. Royesh said, pointing to the recent beheadings in the southern province of Zabul of seven Shiite Hazaras, including a 9-year-old girl, by militants linked to the Islamic State.
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THEY ARE paid to spend their days watching filth: beheadings and chemical-weapons attacks, racist insults and neo-Nazi cartoons, teenagers encouraging each other to starve, people having sex with animals or with ex-lovers against whom they want revenge.
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Found in his carry-on bag was a computer storage drive containing graphic photos of Islamic State beheadings and a "hit list" of U.S. Defense Department employee names and addresses compiled by the extremist group, according to evidence presented at trial.
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Bannon is obviously not a mass murderer like Baghdadi, nor the head of a movement that has tried to exile or exterminate large parts of Iraq's Shiite, Christian, and Yazidi communities, often using beheadings and other forms of extreme violence.
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In an internal debate over the longstanding thorny legal issues surrounding terrorism prosecutions, the officials discussed whether to share evidence to prosecute the suspects, two members of the so-called Beatles whose gruesome hostage beheadings drew widespread attention five years ago.
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AQI emerged during the chaos of the Iraq War, in the mid-2000s, during which time it developed many of the brutal techniques we now associate with ISIS: videotaped beheadings, terror attacks against "soft" civilian targets, an ideology of sectarian ultraviolence.
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Originally an offshoot of al Qaeda, IS took large swathes of Iraq and Syria from 2014, imposing a reign of terror with public beheadings and attacks by supporters abroad - but it was eventually beaten back to the village of Baghouz.
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Given everything Iraqis and Syrians have lived through under ISIS subjugation — amputations, stonings, beheadings, forced displacement, manipulation, psychological trauma, war, and impoverishment — it is highly unlikely regional powers would sit idle and fail to resist the resurgence of the group.
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However, a U.S.-backed campaign against IS in Mosul offered Abadi a chance to emerge as a steely statesman capable of taking on a group that had terrorized a sprawling city with beheadings in public squares while staging deadly attacks in the West.
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The forced religious conversions, the orange suits prior to so many beheadings, all of which were openly displayed for the world to see — this was all that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — this is what he wanted, this is what he was proud of.
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Together, they watched videos of beheadings and executions, she said, researched travel to the Middle East to join the terrorist group and considered blowing up the stadium outside Phoenix during last year's Super Bowl, but could not get the explosives in time.
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The "shining wall on a hill" feel that has marked his speeches for the last few years was replaced by a dark and depressing depiction of beheadings and violent crime that allegedly result from illegal immigration -- not exactly an uplifting rallying cry.
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Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh traveled to Turkey in an effort to join Islamic State after he "immersed himself" in the group's violent propaganda, watching videos of beheadings and expressing approval on Facebook, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bini said in Brooklyn federal court.
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Previous instances of extreme violence involving cannibals, beheadings, amputations and, of course, zombie shenanigans, have failed to do ratings damage to "The Walking Dead," which has been the top show in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic since its third season.
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Although no group had claimed responsibility for either attack as of Sunday night, the beheadings in particular bore the hallmarks of Islamic State tactics and came just weeks after the group threatened to attack schools in the area in retaliation for military operations.
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The former moderator, Selena Scola, argues that Facebook failed to protect her and other contractors as they viewed distressing videos and photographs of rapes, suicides, beheadings and other killings, according to the complaint, filed on Friday in San Mateo County Superior Court.
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Like residents of other Sunni cities controlled by ISIS, they described public beheadings in the city square, people shot in the foot if caught with a cellphone, and beatings for such offenses as wearing dishdasha hems too low or beards too short.
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"In case the Kurds or Turkey lose control, the United States has already taken the 2 ISIS militants tied to beheadings in Syria, known as the Beetles, out of that country and into a secure location controlled by the U.S," he tweeted.
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Three months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims, and all who stood in his way.
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In the latest beheadings, on May 1, two Indian soldiers were part of a team patrolling between two posts when a Pakistani "border action team" — often a combination of militants and regular Pakistani forces — attacked and killed them, the Indian Army said.
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Three months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims and all who stood in his way.
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Three months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims and all who stood in his way.
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MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines angrily dressed down more than 200 police officers on national television on Tuesday, presenting them with a thorny ultimatum: Resign or be shipped off to a terrorist hotbed known for beheadings and attacks on police stations.
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The Facebook Files, a Guardian series based on a leaked copy of Facebook's guidelines for moderators, shows human workers crushed under the weight of rapid-fire decision-making over revenge porn, beheadings, hate speech, Holocaust denialism, and other things that violate Facebook's standards.
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British and American aid workers, Japanese and American journalists, Kurdish and Syrian soldiers, Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians and an alleged Russian spy were among those who followed in Foley's wake: their gruesome beheadings documented on camera and disseminated as propaganda to a global online audience.
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But rather than appealing to women with thoughtful words of contrition or an explanation of how he had changed, Trump again merely dismissed his 2005 comments about women as "locker room banter," before veering incoherently into a tangent about ISIS and beheadings around the world.
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In their post, Bickert and Fishman outlined several steps Facebook will take to fight what they called terrorist content, such as using artificial intelligence to stop people from uploading photos and videos — from propaganda to grisly beheadings — that have already been flagged and taken down.
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Mateen's electronic devices showed searches for jihadist propaganda, including videos of ISIS beheadings and of Anwar al-Awlaki, an influential American-born imam who worked as a spokesman for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and was killed in 2011, according to one official.
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They often glossed over questions about the group's many battlefield atrocities, and reports of their public beheadings, massacres of religious minorities, mass rape, and bartering of women — all of which came to global attention after the group's 2014 takeover of Mosul and northern Iraq.
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The news cycle also hasn't been Paul's friend, and not just on national security issues (where the drones/Edward Snowden/anti-Syria-intervention headlines of 2013 have given way to ISIS beheadings, lost territory in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a colossal Syrian refugee crisis).
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"Sharia authorizes such atrocities as murder of non-believers who won't convert, beheadings, and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to American — especially women," Trump said, reading off a prepared statement during a December 2015 televised rally defending his proposal for a Muslim ban.
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The group is believed to have killed the American journalists James Foley and Steven J. Sotloff, and their beheadings were captured on videos in which Mr. Emwazi was seen reading a statement criticizing President Obama and the American military operation against the Islamic State in Iraq.
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Justin Hastings, a senior lecturer in international relations and comparative politics at the University of Sydney, said that while ISIS beheadings "might inspire some people to prefer that particular way to kill people as opposed to others," he believed it would eventually fall out of favor.
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From arbitrary arrests of peaceful dissidents and widespread discrimination of women to hundreds of beheadings, and the prosecution of a war in neighboring Yemen that according to Human Rights Watch "included scores of unlawful airstrikes that have killed and wounded thousands of civilians," Saudi's record is abysmal.
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"It added that Saudi Arabia had a public-image problem because it was a society "where journalists face flogging for speaking negatively about the king, where children receive the death penalty for attending pro-democracy protests, and where public beheadings are a routine part of life.
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In case the Kurds or Turkey lose control, the United States has already taken the 2 ISIS militants tied to beheadings in Syria, known as the Beetles, out of that country and into a secure location controlled by the U.S. They are the worst of the worst!
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The Moro rebels, who signed a 1996 peace deal with the government, have helped negotiate the release of several hostages from Abu Sayyaf, a smaller but more violent group that was blacklisted by the United States as a terrorist organization for carrying out kidnappings, beheadings and bombings.
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We live in uncomfortable times: from economic stagnation at home to economic disintegration abroad, from disturbing scenes of death on our streets to demonic beheadings on our screens, from Syria to Iran, from Paris to San Bernardino, from Assad to Putin, from one environmental calamity to the next.
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While Nasheed is a general term for Islamic acapella music promoting the religion, this particular song, "Naam Qatil", is one used by ISIS, along with other Jihadist movements in the Middle East, in many of their propaganda videos—including those that showcase the beheadings of the organisation's victims.
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He would benefit more from another spate of Islamic State beheadings than he would from a terrorist attack that required a major military response, and more from a continuing sense of immigration-driven instability in Europe than from, say, a real confrontation with Vladimir Putin over the Baltics.
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Abdul Amir al-Muhammadawi, a spokesman for an elite unit of Interior Ministry troops, said that the buildings retaken from the Islamic State included a courthouse where militants had carried out whippings, stonings and beheadings, as well as a building where militants had thrown people to their deaths.
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Related: The Islamic State's new propaganda film is like an HR meeting, but with beheadings Sirte, a city in Libya along that route, has been under IS' control since February 2015, though anti-IS rebels are now attempting to regain control of the group's last stronghold in the country.
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The path to Baghdadi's demise was full of frustrations for Western and Arab intelligence agencies, who have pored over clues to the whereabouts of a man who imposed a reign of terror across a large swathe of Syria and Iraq, ordering his men to carry out mass executions and beheadings.
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Over the next year as ISIS displayed its barbarity through beheadings and terrorist attacks and captured significant territory in Iraq and Syria, the number of Americans favoring the sending of ground troops rose only slightly – to 49% in a December 2015 poll (CNN/ORC Dec17-21), with the same percentage opposed.
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ETHIOPIA-POLITICS/(PIX) Ethiopia to start filing charges against former regional president, others for ordering human rights abuses, incitement On Friday, prosecutors will charge the former head of Ethiopia's strife-torn Somali region and dozens of other officials with plotting to incite a civil war and ordering abuses including beheadings.
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A founding member of the Islamic State, Mr. Adnani, a 39-year-old Syrian, was the group's chief spokesman and propagandist, running an operation that put out slickly produced videos of beheadings and massacres that shocked the world and sent a rush of recruits running to join the group in Syria.
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Related: Saudi Arabia Hit a 'Grim New Milestone' for Beheadings in 290 Riyadh's main regional rival Iran and its Shiite allies immediately reacted with vigorous condemnation of the execution of Nimr, and Saudi police raised security in a district where the sect is a majority in case of protests, residents said.
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Related: Saudi Arabia Hit a 'Grim New Milestone' for Beheadings in 213 Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signaling it would not tolerate attacks by either Sunni jihadists or minority Shiites seeking equality, but stirring sectarian anger across the region.
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In its early days, the Islamic State in Afghanistan distinguished itself from other terrorist organizations operating in Afghanistan, including Al Qaeda, by taking another cue from counterparts in Iraq and Syria: Its media arm distributed gruesome videos of beheadings and fighters forcing victims to sit on explosives before detonating them.
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READ: ISIS executes more Christians in Libya, video shows Psychological 'priming' Kruglanski, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, says the frequent, high-profile reports of ISIS beheadings could possibly psychologically prime people to be more inclined to emulate them, or threaten to, during moments of conflict or extreme stress.
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The black market for marijuana fuels violence around the world — not only can it lead to conflicts and violence within Canada, but the money from illegally produced and sold pot often went back to drug cartels that then used that money to carry out brutal violence, including murders, beheadings, kidnappings, and torture.
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The Saudis blithely assume abhorrence at their inhumane behavior — from beheadings to forcing teenage girls without head scarves back into a burning school to die, as the religious police did in Mecca in 2002, to the brazen murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist — can be lubricated away with oil and money.
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The black market for marijuana fuels violence around the world — not only can it lead to conflicts and violence within Canada, but the money from illegally produced and sold pot often goes back to drug cartels that then use that money to carry out brutal violence, including murders, beheadings, kidnappings, and torture.
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And the black market for marijuana fuels violence around the world — not only can it lead to conflicts and violence within Canada, but the money from illegally produced and sold pot often goes back to drug cartels that then use that money to carry out brutal violence, including murders, beheadings, kidnappings, and torture.
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According to new research published on Friday in Scientific Reports however, it's not all beheadings and no (fore)play when it comes to spider sex—in fact, one particular species has been shown to have a "rich sexual repertoire" which includes forcing the males to engage in oral sex up to 100 times during copulation.
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More from FT.com: Senatevotes to allow 9/11 Saudi suits Trumpand Republicans in fundraising deal Rajoyrisks EU showdown with tax-cut vow The ads were delivered to the website, which includes images of beheadings and hanged men, by intermediaries including Google's AdSense, the world's biggest online ad network, which take a cut of the revenues.
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In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Dr. Johnson and Miami colleagues searched for pro-Islamic State posts each day from mid-2014 until August 2015, mining mentions of beheadings and blood baths in multiple languages on Vkontakte, a Russia-based social media service that is the largest European equivalent to Facebook.
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Whether or not it will include more funding from Saudi Arabia will be interesting to see, particularly given the continuing backlash against the prince, whose efforts to soften his country's image have largely failed owing to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, continued beheadings in Saudi Arabia, and the kingdom's arrests of women's rights activists, among other things.
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When ISIS took Mosul in June 2014, it also took control of more than 2.5 million people, whom the group subjected to horrors -- public beheadings, throwing gay men to their deaths from the top of buildings and making prisoners out of men who did not grow beards and women who did not wear Islamic clothing, like burqas.
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But at a time when so many images associated with the Middle East have been so grim—from the haunting photographs of Alan Kurdi, the 33-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea a year ago, to ISIS' gruesome videos of beheadings—this snapshot of Arab youth culture offers a necessary change of pace.
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In doing so, the U.S. has largely sidelined al Qaeda and limited the growth of its affiliate in Yemen, once considered the greater threat to the U.S. But it's been unable to prevent the rise of ISIS, whose extravagant brutality has included videotaped beheadings, the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot and other bleak propaganda that inspire fear across the globe.
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Rick Manning Trump's personal, national and job security message hits to the heart of Americans who have seen their jobs threatened or lost, watched violence against the police seemingly accepted by our nation's leaders, and had their constitutional freedoms and beliefs come under nonstop attack over the past eight years, all the while terrorist attacks and beheadings seemingly are becoming the new normal.
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Three years ago in Wired, Adrian Chen wrote a great piece about the poor souls who work for these billion-dollar companies out of linoleum-tiled offices in the Philippines — far from the glittering campuses of Silicon Valley or the high-tech office towers in San Francisco — whose job it is to keep dick pics and beheadings from reaching the screen of your preferred internet consumption device.
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Women in Syria tended to showcase mundane details of their daily lives -- pictures of food and scenery, for example — "basically to show potential and interested recruits that life in Syria wasn't all about beheadings and war, that they could travel there and actually have a life like the one they had back home, but one that was also under Islamic law," Amaransingam told VICE News.
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Over several days last week, the jury listened to testimony on topics ranging from Mr. Pugh's Internet searches and the propaganda he viewed (which included scenes of beheadings and crucifixions under the Islamic State), to the type of clothing Mr. Pugh packed in his backpack ("all-terrain sandals," an F.B.I. agent testified about his footwear), as the prosecution made its case that Mr. Pugh was destined for Syria.
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It was at that mosque in June 2014 where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi strode to the top of a pulpit and declared himself the leader of a caliphate straddling the borders of Iraq and Syria, a vast territory where for three years Islamist extremists have governed with a strict form of Islamic law, held women as sex slaves, carried out public beheadings and plotted terrorist attacks against the West.
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And here's an email HBO sent me last week, helpfully suggesting that Game of Thrones fans should "make Succession your next binge" (I'm a big Succession fan, too, but so far it has featured zero dragons and beheadings, and if there was brief nudity I missed it.) More practically, HBO has already ramped up its output schedule — a decision made before AT&T officially purchased HBO last summer, but made with its new owner's appetite for more content in mind — which accounts for the couple dozen shows it has in production for this year and 2020.
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