Oops! Syria rebels linked to al Qaeda apologize for beheading fellow fighter

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The leaders of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist faction fighting Syrian president Bashar Assad have asked for “understanding forgiveness” after they mistakenly cut off the head of a fellow rebel and held it aloft for public display.

In a video posted on YouTube Wednesday, a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) held up a bearded head in front of a crowd in Aleppo and said he was an Assad loyalist, according to an online statement from the radical fighters' group.

He was later identified as Mohammed Fares, an anti-government fighter who had been wounded in clashes against the Syrian army earlier that day, a spokesperson from British based the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told NBC News. The neutral group reports on incidents involving both sides in the conflict.

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