Abu azrael killed us soldiers

Video has emerged of a high-profile Iraqi commander of a Shia militia slicing the charred body of a man he accused of being a fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The video of Abu Azrael, translated from Arabic as “Father of the Angel of Death,” was allegedly shot in Beiji, a northern oil refinery town where Iraqi forces backed by Shia militias are battling ISIL.

“They sent their elite fighters they said, and look at the third one we got, slicing him off. Where will they run away from us?,” Abu Azrael said as he started cutting up the charred body with a sword.

Abu Azrael’s Imam Ali Brigades are part of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, a coalition of Iraqi Shia militias sponsored and armed by the Iraqi government.

Dubbed “Iraq’s Rambo” by some, Abu Azrael has become something of an online celebrity as Iraqis disappointed with the cou