ISIS killed a 100 militants who tried to leave

By R. Siva Kumar - 22 Dec '14 10:00AM
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Some of the ISIS fighters are becoming the new victims of their own recruiting organization, according to rt.com. The 'military police' killed a 100 foreign fighters who tried to escape Raqqa in northern Syria, even as the anger among the militants mounts up, says a witness activist, in an interview to the The Financial Times.

The ISIS local fighters are "frustrated" for having done most of the work but not getting any perks, even as foreign fighters believing that they were joining "adventures" are tired out, according to rt.com. The activist had verified that a 100 of the foreign ISIS fighters who tried to flee the northern Syrian city of Raqqa have been executed.

The military police has been created by the ISIS to execute those who are not willing to continue serving the Islamic State. The IS fighters' work is documented by them.

So far, 400 members have been arrested, even as the IDs of the others have been printed. Many of the fighters are "discontented and frustrated" with the leaders as well as the IS. However, the hardcore ISIS remains the same. The report records that while foreign militants have often been the most active in major battles, the onus is on the local fighters.

"They feel they are the ones going to die in big numbers on the battlefield but they don't enjoy any of the foreigners' benefits - high salaries, a comfortable life, female slaves," the activist from Deir Ezzor said.

Moreover, the ISIS has fighters from various ethnic groups, and all of them are at loggerheads, according to the report. Most of the fighters form groups according to their race or national identity, which would support ISIS' claim to be "ridding Muslims of national borders," according the The Financial Times.

Currently, there are volunteers from about 74 countries who have become ISIS fighters. About 11,000 of them first went to Syria to join the militant groups during the civil war and 2,800 were from the West, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London (ICSR) estimated in 2013.

The maximum number of joiners hail from France, Germany and the UK. However, in September, the UK media said that five "disillusioned" Britons, three Frenchmen, two Germans and two Belgians were forced to give up their arms and were imprisoned by the militant commanders after they tried to escape.

In November, British PM David Cameron had said that ISIS jihadists are not permitted to come back to UK. Between 30 and 50 Britons want to return but face imprisonments, according to ICSR.

In September, France's parliament was rocked when they proposed a bill to fight terrorism. The Bill wanted to ban those who were planning the activities.

In the past few weeks, the Iraqi Kurds said that they had broken the IS siege of Iraq's Sinjar mountain during a two-day attack. About 8,000 peshmerga fighters and US-led airstrikes had been defeated. It "freed" hundreds of people from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority, who had been trapped on the mountain since August. At the same time, US Pentagon announced that the strikes had killed several ISIS leaders.

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