“Our hand will reach you wherever you are”
An anti-Islamic State activist and filmmaker has been shot dead by assassins in broad daylight in Turkey.
Naji Jerf, 38, was shot with a silenced pistol in downtown Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, Turkish media reported.
Mr Jerf was the film director for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group of journalists who risk their lives daily to report on IS abuses.
So he was slaughtered (silently) for reporting on slaughter. Of course he was.
It is the second murder of a member of the group in as many weeks, after Ahmad Mohammed al-Mousawas killed in Syria.
Mr Jerf was a vocal critic of the so-called Islamic State. He directed two recent documentaries about the group – one about the killing of Syrian activists in Aleppo, the other about the work of RBSS.
No wonder they slaughtered him.
This is not the first time IS has murdered a member of RBSS on Turkish soil. In October, Ibrahim Abdul Qader was beheaded in the southern city of Urfa.
Another journalist, Fares Hamadi, was killed in the same attack. IS subsequently published a video warning: “You will not be safe from the knife of the Islamic State. Our hand will reach you wherever you are.”
They can do it, and we know they can do it, and they know we know they can do it.
This is what mafias do.
But of course, its all REALLY about oil, and Cheney, and Israel. And their sincerely held religious beliefs being offended. Just as Joyce Carol Oates, Glen Greenwald, Karen Armstrong etc.
Isn’t it amazing that Daesh can carry out its murders on turkish soil with impunity. It’s almost as if the Erdowan regime was conniving. But that can’t be true can it? Any more than those lying rumours about the US government providing arms, equipment and cash to Daesh (and al Nusra). Lies I tell you – all lies.