Locals say they were forbidden from listening to music and forced to fast and pray. One man, who owns a grocery shop on the town’s main road, spent two nights in jail for smoking a nargila. Bread prices skyrocketed, and fuel became scarce. Residents tried to avoid confrontation. “It’s a black-and-white world for them. You can become their enemy very fast,” the grocer said. One day this summer, at the intersection outside the grocer’s shop, the jihadis trotted out two dazed-looking men — one young, the other maybe in his fifties — and presented them as agents of the Syrian army. The accused might have been sedated; they put up little resistance as the jihadis cut off their heads. The grocer stood and gawked. Another man recounted vomiting on the street.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 01:43:41 +0000
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