In this way responsibility for the execution was diffused, so as to ensure that no one member of the firing squad would, with certainty, be tainted by it.
Responsibility for the execution going ahead, despite the controversy over the racially-tinged testimony, is now falling squarely on the shoulders of Perry.
In October, a Derna-based jihadist group declared its allegiance to ISIS, and, a few months later, another ISIS unit claimed responsibility for the execution of a dozen Libyan soldiers.
The network said the video was prepared by the Unity and Jihad militant group, which is believed to be run by Mr. Zarqawi, and recently claimed responsibility for the execution of three Turkish hostages in Iraq.
Little more than half an hour after the explosion a man speaking in "poor Arabic, or just pretending to have poor Arabic" called the Beirut office of al-Jazeera television with a statement saying: "The Nasra & Jihad Group in Greater Syria claims responsibility for the execution of the agent Rafik Hariri, in the name of the oppressed, the Nasra and the Jihad".
Gouri also claimed responsibility for the execution of French hiker Hervé Gourdel, who was beheaded in September 2014 just days after he was kidnapped.
The Soldiers of the Caliphate — a splinter group from al Qaeda that has pledged loyalty to the Islamic State — claimed responsibility for the execution of hostage Hervé Gourdel, a French mountain guide who was beheaded in Algeria on September 24.
DP had overall responsibility for the execution of the microarray assays and statistical analyses of the data.
The paper's Web site said it received a compact disc with a seven-page statement from the group claiming responsibility for the execution-style shooting of the reporter, Sokratis Giolias, 37, outside his home.
Crittendon also had significant responsibility for discharging the execution, and he recalls having "a whole sense of anticipation as the plan I had helped to create was unfolding".
The responsibility for this execution has aroused considerable discussion among Swedish and Danish historians; the large part played by Gustav Trolle is now generally accepted.
