ISIS’s “blood judge” killed in Nineveh

Nineveh – (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State executioner judge known for Nineveh locals as the “blood judge” was killed Thursday in an armed assault at the central area of the province, a local source told Alsumaria News.

“The ISIS summary court judge, a French national, was killed by armed attackers boarding a car at the eastern coast of the province,” said the source. “The judge was known among the people of Nineveh as the ‘blood judge’, having sentenced any violator of the group’s directives to beheading and deprivation of burial.” He assumed his post a year earlier after a shakeup of ranks in the province, he explained.

ISIS pit its fighters on alert to search for perpetrators, said the source.

Since it took over large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, ISIS has become notorious for beheadings of opponents and violators of its strict religious rules, proudly posting breathtaking movies of executions of civilians and foreign workers in the country on the internet.

Since Iraqi forces and US-led coalition troops launched a major campaign mid October to liberate the city of Mosul from ISIS, the group has sustained severe losses in personnel and equipment, with many of its prominent cadres reported dead or fleeing.