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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 491

beheadings

File: A picture of Samuel Paty during the "Samuel Paty" award ceremony, organized by the Association of History and Geography Teachers (APHG), at the Sorbonne university in Paris on October 19, 2024. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
November 4, 2024, 7:50 am
Trial set to begin over beheading of French teacher who showed Muhammad cartoons
Eight facing judge on terror charges; main focus of trial is father of Muslim pupil and founder of pro-Hamas group who spread information against Samuel Paty
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
Sgt. Adir Tahar who was killed near the Erez crossing on October 7, 2023. (IDF)
January 18, 2024, 11:40 am
Father of fallen soldier: Terrorist decapitated my son, tried to sell head for $10,000
David Tahar, whose son Adir was killed on Oct. 7, says captured terrorists revealed details enabling retrieval of missing head from Gaza; CNN shows separate decapitation video
By ToI Staff
File - El Shafee Elsheikh, one of the Islamic State Beatles,' speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria March 30, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)
April 14, 2022, 10:40 pm
Islamic State ‘Beatle’ convicted by US for beheading hostages
British national El Shafee Elsheikh found guilty of belonging to group known for cruelty to captives, including 4 Americans who were killed
By Matthew Barakat
Steven Sotloff next to his Islamic State captor, 'Jihadi John,' in a video released September 2, 2014. (Screen capture: SITE/Twitter)
October 2, 2021, 11:45 pm
US charges jihadist behind IS propaganda clips, including journalist beheadings
Canadian Mohammed Khalifa narrated videos as part of cell that filmed murders of James Foley and American-Israeli Steven Sotloff
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this photo dated Friday Feb. 19, 2021, made available by Medecins Sans Frontieres, showing an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff member measuring a child's upper arm circumference to check for malnutrition in Meluco, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Northern Mozambique's humanitarian crisis is quickly growing with more than 650 000 people displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in Cabo Delgado province according to a statement Tuesday March 16, 2021, from International aid groups. (AP Photo/MSF)
March 17, 2021, 4:00 am
Islamic extremists in Mozambique beheading kids as young as 11, aid groups say
US sending military specialists to train Mozambican army to battle Islamic State-allied group in conflict that has displaced nearly 670,000 people
By ANDREW MELDRUM
People gather with portraits of slain teacher Samuel Paty during a demonstration, on October 18, 2020, in Paris. (AP Photo/ Michel Euler)
October 25, 2020, 7:18 pm
France indicts Chechen-born refugee for ‘liking’ photo of murdered teacher
22-year-old charged with glorifying terrorism; several knives and other weapons found at his home, prosecutors say
By AFP
A poster reading "I am Samuel" and flowers outside the school where slain history teacher Samuel Paty worked, on October 17, 2020, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. (AP/Michel Euler)
October 22, 2020, 6:28 pm
France probes contact between Syria jihadist and suspect in teacher beheading
In search for accomplices, anti-terror investigators establish that Abdullah Anzorov spoke with Russian-speaker from Idlib, telling him he’d ‘avenged the Prophet’ after beheading
By Sylvie MALIGORNE and Jurgen HECKER
French lawmakers gather to pay homage to slain teacher Samuel Paty on October 20, 2020 on the steps of the National Assembly in Paris. (AP/Lewis Joly)
October 21, 2020, 7:21 pm
France dissolves Hamas-inspired group linked to teacher’s beheading
Government spokesman says Cheikh Yassine Collective ‘implicated’ in killing of Samuel Paty; Gaza-based terrorists distance themselves from grisly attack
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People attend the 'Marche Blanche' in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on October 20, 2020, in solidarity after a teacher was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
October 20, 2020, 11:17 pm
France to shut pro-Hamas group after murder; Macron vows action on Islamists
French authorities to close Paris mosque in clampdown on radical Islam following teacher’s grisly beheading; officials say killer was ‘in contact’ with one pupil’s dad
By AFP and ToI Staff
French police officers stand guard as adults and children gather in front of flowers displayed at the entrance of a middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30 kilometers northwest of Paris, on October 17, 2020, after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker who has been shot dead by policemen. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)
October 19, 2020, 8:58 pm
4 students detained after French teacher’s beheading
Police arrest a total of 15 people in raids on Islamist networks in Paris area; minister says there won’t be ‘a minute’s respite for enemies of the Republic’
By Alexandre Hielard and Clare BYRNE
An Islamic State flag lies in a tent encampment after US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters took control of Baghouz, Syria, on March 23, 2019. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
October 11, 2019, 6:43 am
Pressure mounts to repatriate and try IS foreign fighters
US forces said planning to assume control of several dozen captured fighters from Kurds to prevent their escape during Turkish assault
By Paul Handley
A Kurdish security officer, right, escorts Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, center, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, Friday, March 30, 2018. “The Beatles” terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 10, 2019, 4:36 am
US moves 2 British Islamic State members known as ‘Beatles’ from Syria
Two notorious terrorists, believed to be part of group that beheaded hostages, taken out of Syria amid fears they could escape as Turkey invades
By AP
Illustrative: A woman is seen kneeling on the ground ahead of her execution in Saudi Arabi as a swordsman dressed in white stands above her, January 17, 2015. (Screen Capture: YouTube)
April 23, 2019, 11:07 pm
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 prisoners, most of them Shiites, for alleged terrorism
Executions likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions; NGO says they were convicted after ‘sham trials’
By Aya Batrawy
An undated photo of Peter Kassig leaning against a truck at unknown location. (photo credit: AFP/Kassig Family handout)
December 3, 2018, 4:34 pm
Syria coalition says it killed IS leader linked to beheadings
Abu al-Umarayn was accused of involvement in November 2014 decapitation of Peter Kassig, a former US ranger who was doing volunteer humanitarian work when captured
By Rouba El Husseini
David Wright (2L) is depicted standing before Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell (L) with attorney Jessica Hedges (2R) and Nicholas Rovinski during a hearing in federal court in Boston, June 19, 2015. (Jane Flavell Collins via AP, File)
December 20, 2017, 2:50 am
Man sentenced to 28 years in IS-inspired plot to behead conservative blogger
David Wright was convicted of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism in plan to kill Pamela Geller
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
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