This was one lucky guy, as well as being very smart for playing dead.
Escaping Death in Northern Iraq: Surviving an ISIS Massacre (Warning: Video contains graphic content)
Sep 4th 2014 11:53AM306 Comments
By TIM ARANGO / The New York Times
DIWANIYA, Iraq - Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shiite, was captured with hundreds of other soldiers by Sunni militants in June and taken to the grounds of a palace complex in Tikrit where Saddam Hussein once lived.
The militants, with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, separated the men by sect. The Sunnis were allowed to repent for their service to the government. The Shiites were marked for death, and lined up in groups.
Mr. Kadhim was No. 4 in his line.
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Escaping Death in Northern Iraq: Surviving an ISIS Massacre (Warning: Video contains graphic content)
Sep 4th 2014 11:53AM306 Comments
By TIM ARANGO / The New York Times
DIWANIYA, Iraq - Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shiite, was captured with hundreds of other soldiers by Sunni militants in June and taken to the grounds of a palace complex in Tikrit where Saddam Hussein once lived.
The militants, with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, separated the men by sect. The Sunnis were allowed to repent for their service to the government. The Shiites were marked for death, and lined up in groups.
Mr. Kadhim was No. 4 in his line.
Continue reading at:
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/09/04/escaping-death-in-northern-iraq-surviving-