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by A_D_E_P_T 330 days ago
Right. To add to this, it's said that ISIS was particularly infamous for staging mock executions of high-propaganda-value prisoners.

For instance, they'd take a prisoner out, film the prologue to an execution video, unsheathe a knife or rack a shotgun, and then... they wouldn't perform the execution itself. "It's just for show," they'd tell their target, as they return him to his cell. Then, one day, after calmly filming yet another prologue, they'd swiftly and gruesomely execute their prisoner, who had been lulled into a certain docility and wasn't expecting them to actually go through with it.

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They are also notorious for drugging them.