A
15-year-old prisoner accused of having fought for ISIS has described how
the terrorists murder women who show their skin and drug young men to
convince them to carry out suicide attacks.
A
group of accused men are being held in northern Syria after being
captured earlier this year by Kurdish troops battling to force the
jihadists out of the area.
While
many of the prisoners deny being involved, teenager Kareem Mufleh
readily admits his links to ISIS - claiming he had been threatened with
beheading if they did not join the terror group.
Mufleh
was eventually captured by Kurdish fighters in June, during a firefight
in which he was shot three times in the stomach, leaving massive scars.
Experience: In order to ensure their
largely reluctant recruits give their all in battle, ISIS makes them
take the anti-anxiety drug Zolam to make militants willing suicide
bombers, 15-year-old Kareem Mufleh claimed
Claims: Accused fighter Kareem
Mufleh (standing) described how Islamic State terrorists murder women
who show their skin and are known to drug young men in order to convince
them to carry out suicide bomb attacks
The
men accused of being Islamic State fighters were interviewed in the
basement of their prison in northern Syria by Holly Williams, a
correspondent for CBS News.
Among
those interviewed was 15-year-old Kareem Mufleh, who openly tells of
having fought for ISIS - something none of the other men in the jail
admit to. His face was covered throughout the interview, presumably so
ISIS fighters wouldn't recognise him.
In
order to ensure their largely reluctant recruits give their all in
battle, ISIS makes them take the anti-anxiety drug Zolam to make the
fighters' willing suicide bombers, Mufleh claimed.
'That drug makes you lose your mind... If they give you a suicide belt and tell you to blow yourself up, you'll do it,' he said.
Accused: A group of accused men are
being held in northern Syria after being captured earlier this year by
Kurdish troops battling to force the jihadists out of the area
Injury: 15-year-old Kareem Mufleh
revealed three large wounds on his stomach which he claims were received
while fighting the Kurdish troops who would eventually take him captive
Describing
the horrors of his time in ISIS' ranks, Mufleh says: 'I even saw them
kill a woman because her wedding dress showed her neck and bare arms.'
He
also revealed three large wounds on his stomach which he claims were
received while fighting the Kurdish troops who would eventually take him
captive.
Mufleh's
story is a long way from the myth ISIS likes to propagate, that its
followers are pious men and women drawn to the group's hardline
interpretation of Islam.
The
reality in many cases is that ISIS' reputation for bloody violence is
the only thing encouraging new recruits from within the many towns and
villages the terror group has seized in recent months.
This morning a terror expert described how ISIS grooms Western fighters in much the same way as paedophiles do with children.
Fear: The men accused of being Islamic
State fighters were interviewed in the basement of their prison in
northern Syria by Holly Williams (left), a correspondent for CBS News
Suleiman Mohammed is accused of plotting to detonate a car bomb on behalf of the Islamic State terror group
Militant: ISIS grooms new recruits online in much the same way as paedophiles do with children
Professor
Greg Barton, from Australia's Monash University's Global Terrorism
Research Centre, told AAP that recruiters lure targets by making friends
through social media, like many sexual predators.
'Somebody
might strike up a friendship in an online chat forum and present
themselves in a different fashion - to try to get them into their web...
By the time they actually meet the people they're speaking with, they
may be in too deep to know better.'
While
that approach may work with naive Western recruits, the reality is that
for many of those already living under ISIS' bloody oppression, it is
only the fear that the group's leadership will murder either them or
their loved ones, that encourages militants to take up arms for the
Islamic State.
ISIS RELEASES SICKENING VIDEO CLIP SHOWING SYRIAN WOMAN BEING STONED TO DEATH BY GROUP OF MEN - INCLUDING HER OWN FATHER
Islamic
State militants fighting in Syria and Iraq have released a sickening
video of a young woman being stoned to death by a group of men -
including her own father.
The
shocking footage is understood to have been filmed in the city of Hama
and shows a bearded cleric ranting at the woman in Arabic and accusing
her adultery while she pleads for her life.
The
woman turns to her father and begs his forgiveness but he coldly
rejects her, saying he would rather please God. He then turns to the men
to give the signal for his daughter's murder to begin.
Terror: The bearded ISIS militant
orders the woman to be 'content and happy' that she is about to be
stoned to death because, he says, her death has been ordered by God. Her
father (left) stands next to the extremist
Minutes
later, as the men rain rocks down upon the helpless woman, her father
steps forward with a large stone and the video fades to black.
It
is believed he had been granted the barbaric 'honour' of being allowed
end the life of the daughter he felt had betrayed both him and her
religion.
The
sickening five-minute video emerged on ISIS-affiliated social media
pages this morning. It is not clear when the footage was actually shot
and has not been independently verified.
The
exact accusations against the woman remain sketchy, although the cleric
who appears at the start of mobile phone-filmed clip accuses her of
committing adultery.
Shocking: As the militants rain down
rocks on the defenseless woman, her father (left) steps forward and
picks up the largest rock before using it to strike and kill his
daughter
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