Sick and twisted
by digby
A former hostage held in Syria by ISIS extremists for more than six months has described mock executions and other forms of psychological torture against him and other captives.
Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa wrote in The Sunday Times that militant Mohammed Emwazi played a lead role in the mock executions.
Emwazi, a Londoner nicknamed “Jihadi John,” is believed to have played a central role in a series of beheading videos.
Espinosa, who works for Spain’s El Mundo newspaper and was on assignment when he was abducted in September 2013, characterized Emwazi as a bloodthirsty psychopath who enjoyed threatening him and other Western hostages.
There are horrible details but I’m not going to relate them here. Mock execution always plays a big part in a psychological torture regime. And it’s always awful.