'I heard English accents... They asked for infidels'

Crucifixions, beheadings and life in Isil-held Syria as revealed by refugees fleeing the terror to Shona Murray in Beirut

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/i-heard-english-accents-they-asked-for-infidels-31049294.html

Shona Murray

Published 08/03/2015 | 02:3

Isil militants prepare to execute captured Iraqi soldiers held prisoner near Tikrit last year. Today the Iraqi army is pressing the terrorist group to regain possession of Saddam Hussein’s home town

'WE saw the slaughter with our bare eyes. We saw them beheading men in front of our eyes in the centre of our town.

"When we were escaping, there were heads on spikes on each route outside the city, just to remind us all of what can happen," says 39-year-old Umma Abed from Deir ez-Zor in Isil-held Syria.

Umma Abed and her four daughters and two sons fled Isil's control and managed to get to Lebanon late last year.
"They're not Syrians - I heard English accents; Tunisians. When they came first, they searched our house, and said 'do you have any infidels here?'

"I said no, we are just with God; we just want to live, and eat and save my children.
"My daughter fainted, she was so frightened; my son, Abed was crying".

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