ISIS executes its own fighters by plunging them in vats of ACID in vicious purge of ‘spies’ after US drones take out terror leaders
Jihadi group panics after string of senior figures hit in precision strikes
ISIS commanders are killing their own fighters by plunging them in vats of acid in a panicked search for US spies, it has emerged.
Terror bosses devised the brutal new method of execution after a string of senior figures were killed in precision drone strikes in Iraq and Syria.
Around 38 suspected informants were killed in Mosul last month - many by being dunked in acid - in a vicious purge launched in response to the death of terror leader Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi.
His vehicle was blown to bits as he was driving through northern Syria in March.
Commanders are said to be growing increasingly paranoid that closely guarded details of their movements are being leaked from inside their own ranks.
Other senior figures wiped out by drones recently include ISIS 'Minister of War' Omar al-Shishani and feared Iraqi militant Shaker Wuhayeb, also known as Abu Wahib.
A top finance official known as Abu Ali Al-Anbari was also targeted, and British butcher JIhadi John - real name Mohammed Emwazi - was 'evaporated' by a missile in Raqqa despite moving safe between houses around constantly.
Bebars al-Talawy, a Syrian activist who monitors ISIS, said: "Commanders don't dare come from Iraq to Syria because they are being liquidated."
In Mosul, the biggest city held by ISIS, a succession of commanders who held the post of governor have each died in airstrikes and the new governor refuses to be identified, according to the Iraqi intelligence service.
Opposition activists say dozens of ISIS members have been murdered in the purge on suspected US moles. Others have been locked up in prison or have fled the terror group fearing they will be next to fall under suspicion.
The bodies of executed 'spies' are displayed in public as a warning and ever more gruesome killing methods are dreamt up to keep its people in line.
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Rami Abdurrahman, of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said some ISIS fighters began feeding information to the US-led coalition in return for cash after their wages were cut.
He added: "They have executed dozens of fighters on charges of giving information to the coalition or putting GPS chips in order for the aircraft to strike at a specific area."
A senior Iraqi intelligence official in Baghdad said: "'Daesh (ISIS) is now concentrating on how to find informers because they have lost commanders that are hard to replace.
"Now any IS commander has the right to kill a person whom they suspect is an informer for the coalition."
ISIS is struggling to pay its fighters after devastating strikes on the oil fields under its control, its main source of income, and its supply routes into Turkey.
The purge comes at a time when ISIS is being pushed back in both Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi army has launched a full-scale assault to retake the strategic city of Fallujah.
Sherfan Darwish, of the US-backed rebel group Syria Democratic Forces, said there is panic in ISIS-held areas where the extremists have killed people simply for having a telephone in their homes.
He said: "There is chaos. Some members and commanders are trying to flee."
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