Yesterday the ‘Iraqi Swat’ Instagram account had a decent following of around 60,000 people, mostly from the Middle East. Then the world got news that this account was allowing followers to vote on whether or not members of ISIS captured by Iraqi Special Forces would be executed and just like that the follower count of ‘Iraqi Swat’ has begun to blow up.
Word began to spread yesterday when an Imgur user uploaded these photos (though we actually covered this here on BroBible back in December), showing ‘Iraqi Swat’ put the fate of a captured member of ISIS to a vote:
http://imgur.com/VMRNY47
http://imgur.com/RF7WN7g
SPOILER ALERT: they executed that member of ISIS after the fan vote was overwhelmingly in favor of killing him. There’s a photo of that, which you can see in the original three picture set over on Imgur. I chose not to include that pic because I know some of you don’t do so well seeing dead bodies, but if you want to see the executed man you can click on over to Imgur, but DON’T LEAVE before you check out the rest of the pics on the ‘Iraqi Swat‘ Instagram account.
It’s unclear if this is actually a special forces squad backed by the Iraqi government or if it’s a rogue militia fighting ISIS on their own. Reports have come out so far claiming both sides of that story, and given that this is just some random Instagram account it’s hard to say whether or not this is a state-sponsored special forces unit or not. It doesn’t matter though, because they’re out there each day hunting down members of ISIS and looking like total badasses:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDbjYcmzDxg/
As you can see in the caption of this photo, Instagram is deleting the previous photos of captured members of ISIS who have been executed after fan vote:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDhJwWCzD1F/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDgLbsFzD_K/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BC_J1mQzD2c/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDdkuhZTD0D/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCoK7d0zDxr/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDfg20azDxi/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDDskhmzD7_/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDQTM3tTD3T/
For more from this controversial account that’s allowing followers to vote on the fate of capture men’s lives you can go ahead and give that account a follow by clicking any of those links above.