The Islamist savages
make an example of yet another American:
An Islamic State group video released Sunday purports to show extremists beheading a dozen Syrian soldiers and ends with a militant claiming to have killed U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, the latest slaughter proudly broadcast by the group on the Internet.
The video ends with the militant standing over a severed head he says belongs to Kassig. U.S. officials said they were working to determine the video's authenticity. Kassig's family said it was awaiting the outcome of the investigation.
"We prefer our son is written about and remembered for his important work and the love he shared with friends and family, not in the manner the hostage takers would use to manipulate Americans and further their cause," the family said in a statement.
Also, the outfit that does these is
much bigger than we'd estimated:
The Islamic State (Isis) has recruited an army hundreds of thousands strong, far larger than previous estimates by the CIA, according to a senior Kurdish leader. He said the ability of Isis to attack on many widely separated fronts in Iraq and Syria at the same time shows that the number of militant fighters is at least 200,000, seven or eight times bigger than foreign in intelligence estimates of up to 31,500 men.
Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of the Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said in an exclusive interview with The Independent on Sunday that "I am talking about hundreds of thousands of fighters because they are able to mobilise Arab young men in the territory they have taken."
He estimates that Isis rules a third of Iraq and a third of Syria with a population of between 10 and 12 million living in an area of 250,000 square kilometres, the same size as Great Britain. This gives the jihadis a large pool of potential recruits.
Proof that Isis has created a large field army at great speed is that it has been launching attacks against the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Iraqi army close to Baghdad at the same time as it is fighting in Syria. "They are fighting in Kobani," said Mr Hussein. "In Kurdistan last month they were attacking in seven different places as well as in Ramadi [capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad] and Jalawla [an Arab-Kurdish town close to Iranian border]. It is impossible to talk of 20,000 men or so."
What a time to have as "president" an empty suit driven by a delusional ideology that motivates him to deliberately weaken our nation as much as he can.
Are you one of the manipulated, playing right into their hands?
ReplyDelete"We prefer our son is written about and remembered for his important work and the love he shared with friends and family, not in the manner the hostage takers would use to manipulate Americans and further their cause," the family said in a statement.
No, I'm a deeply concerned American who does not want to see Western civilization destroyed by jihadists.
ReplyDeleteWhen they rape all the women in your family, better not react. You'll just be playing into their hands
What, pray tell, are the chances of that? I try to work my problems out peacefully. That is what they all need to do in the Middle East and spare us all this dreadful drama. I'd pull out and let it all just cut loose. These people are real modern savages and you cannot deal with real modern savages. They'll find some sort of lid to put it all under all by themselves. That of course means a dictator and we all know that is not likely to be us if we're not there.
ReplyDeleteAnd if the cops can come after me on a tip that I am smoking weed, they can surely respond if some crazed tries to rape my wife and female children and grandchildren. Do you think Central Indiana is high on their list to invade?
ReplyDeleteBut of course we cannot pull out and let it all cut loose because that will hurt our oil predations and our Israeli obligations, although Israel too seems to have little appreciation of our efforts. It must be a regional sport to kick sand in our faces. Well, they can all go pound it, in my opinion, which of course is not worth much, no money, no power, nothing to worry about from me. I'm also accused of not being a grown up because of my opinions on, yep, you continually call it it, the Middle East. You say I am OK with the slaughter of innocents here, of course I'm not; neither am I OK with the slaughter of innocents over there and we too have slaughtered many. Why do you think they hate us more and more with every bomb? These are not our countries and shouldn't have to be so much of our concern. Yeah, I too remember the slaughter of innocents here stateside on 9/11/2001. Only the beginning or never again? I prefer the latter, which means I stand defensively, not offensively.
ReplyDeleteA recent UN Report (yes I know what you think of the UN, but they can't be too cool with this, can they) documents a strategy by ISIS, not just random brutality or religious fanaticism. ISIS's ultraviolence is designed to cement its rule by terrifying the population into submission. And it might be working.
ReplyDeleteISIS also pairs its brutality with social service provision: they provide food, electricity, medical care, and some semblance of a justice system. Buy people's loyalty when you can, and force it when you can't. So far, this might actually be working. A recent New York Times report suggested Raqqa residents were angry about American strikes on ISIS targets because they made it harder for ISIS to maintain order and public services in the city.
read more at http://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7220347/isis-syria-violence
Again, I ask, why is this our fight? These people get what they have always had, an iron fist and what's one iron fist over another over there. It's not our country! It's not our religion! Do you really think this is another domino match where we are the last domino? Been there, done that with that crapola. I won't get fooled again but it looks like your ilk will. We are being drawn into an evil web.
ReplyDeleteYou kind of answer your own question. The statement "It's not our religion" says it all. That's why, according to them, we must convert or die.
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