An ISIS fighter pleaded with his Kurdish captors to kill him, so he could make a 'religious ceremony' in heaven at 4pm.
The jihadi was taken prisoner by the Peshmerga, near Mosul, in northern Iraq, on the day of the Muslim festival of Isra and Mi'iraj. The celebration marks the night when Allah took Muhammed on a journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and then to heaven. The prisoner said the commemoration even in heaven was starting at 4pm.
A lieutenant-colonel in Peshmerga, Salim al-Surji, told Clarion Project: 'While I was bandaging his wound I asked him where he was from and he said he's from
Samarra (a city in Iraq) and that he came to fight here with 50 other armed men.
'They were supposed to commit suicide using their suicide belts because today is the anniversary of the Isra and Mi'iraj celebration. He told me "all of us must be in heaven by 4pm, kill me".'
The ISIS fighter branded the Peshmerga chief an 'ifidel' while he was held captive, after a battle in which many Kurdish fighters were killed.
Al-Surji added: 'His explosive belt had not detonated and he was hurt in his ankle due to the explosion of one of his comrades. He was unable to walk. He told me "you are infidels, kill me".'
Despite the abuse, the al-Surji said he bandaged up the man's injured ankle. - mailonline
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