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ISIS Beheads American Journalist, Threatens Another
Breaking news out of the Middle East:
Published in GeneralIn a video posted online Tuesday, ISIS beheads James Wright Foley, an American freelance journalist who was captured in Syria in 2012. The video says the killing is a warning to the U.S. to end its intervention in Iraq. The video also shows Steven Sotloff, a freelance journalist working for Time, and threatens that he will be next. Sotloff’s kidnapping seems to have been kept secret until now. Foley was working as a photographer in Syria for AFP when he was taken. The year prior he had been kidnapped in Libya.
No more or less than doing so to any other person.
Termend – that was Fabrizio Quattrocchi.
We don’t seem to have made much progress in the War on Terror since then – err, I mean Man-caused disasters.
Maybe Mr Obama should give another speech in Cairo, apologizing for America – that worked well, last time.
It appears to me as though ISIS has just drawn a red line in the sand. A real and bloody one, that awaits a response.
Let’s be fair to President Obama he did respond to this incident. I believe his exact words were; What time was our foursome supposed to be on the first tee?
All,
Nigel Farage is making sense.
It’s not too late to realize we need to see the threat as it is, not how we’d like it to be.
Regards,
Jim
Perhaps literally so in this case:
I know James Foley’s aunt, and we’d been praying for him, although privately very doubtful he would be coming home alive.
Like most people, I’ve always used the Nazis as my gold standard for evil organizations, but they were rubbed out almost 70 years ago. I’m going to start using ISIS (or whatever they are called) as my new demon.
This was a clear challenge to our “wonderful” leader. Now will our wonderful leader have the balls to fight back? This is clear evil right before our eyes. We need to destroy these savages period. If we don’t fight back now in a personal way we have forfeited our right to be a great nation.
My prayers for the deceased and their families.
Surgical nukes.
And no, I’m not using hyperbole. Let’s just nuke the entire [redacted] muslim world and be done with them. They are inconsistent with the modern world, and our choice is to either get rid of them or lose the modern world.