ISIS, the enemy of knowledge: Terror group beheads archeologist in Palmyra

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ISIS beheads 82-year-old archaeologist in Palmyra, Syrian official says

ISIS militants have beheaded an 82-year-old archaeologist who had been in charge of overseeing the ancient site at Palmyra in Syria, a government official said Tuesday.

Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that the family of Khaled Asaad had informed Abdulkarim that Asaad had been beheaded earlier in the day and his body hanged from a column in the town's main square.

Asaad's death was also reported by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory, which has a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said dozens of people gathered to witness the killing.
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Asaad died a hero. ISIS interrogated him for over a month demanding to know where the city's treasures had been hidden, but he refused to cooperate. Asaad spent over a 50-year career investigating the ancient history of Syria, alongside U.S., French, German, and Swiss archaeological missions. He also wrote literally dozens of texts and general-interest books that expressed his love and devotion to his profession and the history of all Near Asia.

Not only was he killed for refusing to enrich ISIS, his knowledge and education threatened their medieval culture and mindset. They are the enemy of freedom, the enemy of knowledge, the enemy of civilized nations. This is just one more reason to make certain they suffer utter and total defeat, that the world must make their families widows and orphans and their very imprint wiped from the face of the Earth.
 
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