Syria Rebel Beheaded In Error By Jihadists

A video reportedly posted online allegedly shows two fighters holding up a bearded man's head before a crowd in Aleppo.Al Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria have reportedly admitted beheading a rebel fighter by mistake.They apparently believed he was an Iraqi Shiite fighting alongside President Bashar al Assad's forces.A video posted on the internet on Wednesday allegedly showed two members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holding up a bearded man's head before a crowd in Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to launch a rocket towards forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood in central AleppoRebel fighters prepare to launch a rocket towards regime forces in AleppoThe UK-based watchdog's chief Rami Abdel Rahman said: "Some minutes after the video was posted, the man was identified as Mohammed Marroush, a fighter with rebel group Ahrar al Sham."ISIL later admitted the rebel had been killed by mistake and said it had arrested one of its men, a Tunisian, for decapitating him. He was referred to their Islamic court."The second man, also a foreign fighter and from the Gulf, has not been detained.The Islamist Ahrar al Sham is an ISIL ally.Inspectors at a Syria chemical weapons facilityA UN inspector at a Syria chemcial weapons facility in OctoberThe fighter had been wounded in fighting at a regime military base east of Aleppo, Syria's second city and former commercial hub.He was taken to hospital outside Aleppo for treatment, and in his drugged state was heard to repeat the names Ali and Hussein, two revered Shiite imams."The two ISIL men deduced he was a Shiite fighter and cut his head off," the watchdog added in a statement, calling the decapitation "a war crime".

It comes as the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), met in The Hague on Friday to approve a tight timetable for ridding Syria of its entire deadly poison gas and nerve agent arsenal by mid-2014.