Reunited with his young family - VIDEO

Ali Hussein Kadhim, a Shiite Iraqi soldier, was safely back home with his wife and young children in southern Iraq this week after being one of hundreds abducted by the extremist Sunni militants in Tikrit in June.While his Sunni Iraqi colleagues were spared death, Mr Kadhim - a Shiite Iraqi soldier - was ordered to be executed.After shooting three Shiite soldiers in the back of the head, the assassin turned his gun on 23-year-old Mr Kadhim - and missed.Instinctively, the soldier fell forwards into an open grave dug for the victims of the murderous rampage. It was a decision that would save his life.Speaking to the New York Times on Wednesday, Mr Kadhim, who is married with a daughter and baby son, described the sensation of the bullet breezing past his temple.Mr Kadhim lay still among the bodies for hours as he waited for the ISIS extremists to leave. He then fled the bloody scene under cover of darkness and hid out by the Tigris River, a few hundred yards away. He spent three days on the run, eating plants to survive. 'I saw my daughter in my mind saying "Father, father",' he told the newspaper from his home in southern Iraq. 'I just pretended to be shot'. After ISIS released sickening images of their victims lying face-down in the dirt with their hands bound behind their backs, Mr Kadhim managed to identify himself in the line-up.ISIS released the slickly-produced, disturbing footage of the siege on the Islamic religious holiday of Eid earlier this year.The video showed prisoners being rounded up and summarily executed, suicide bombers boasting before blowing up buildings and Iraqis being gunned down in drive-by shootings.In one of the most shocking segments, terrified prisoners are piled into the back of trucks, where they hold each other and huddle in fear before being driven off to their deaths.The 36-minute film then cuts to dozens of prisoners lying face down on the ground, hands bound behind their backs, waiting to be executed. (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az