US, Britain and now it is France – Islamic militants behead a French hostage

After the merciless beheading of two American journalists and a British aid worker, a Frenchman has now fallen victim to the bloodthirsty Islamist militants and has been beheaded by them in Algeria nzherald.co.nz.
An Algerian splinter group from al-Qaida has beheaded a French hostage 55-year-old Herve Gourdel, a mountaineering guide from Nice. He was seized while he was hiking in the Djura Djura Mountains of northern Algeria. His captors released his Algerian companions.
This barbaric act is believed to be due to France's airstrikes on the Islamic State group and is indicative of the possible widening of the crisis in Iraq and Syria to the rest of the region. French President Francois Hollande has termed the killing as a "cowardly assassination," and has vowed to continue the military operation.
President Barack Obama has said that people around the world had been "horrified by another brutal murder … these terrorists believe our countries will be unable to stop them. The safety of our citizens demands that we do…"
The beheading has reportedly been carried out by a splinter group of the ISIS – this group identifies itself as Jund al-Khilafah, or "Soldiers of the Caliphate". It had split from al-Qaida and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group two weeks ago and seized Gourdel in response to the call to kill the "spiteful and filthy French." It gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to France to end its air campaign.
Reports indicate that nearly 1,000 French radicals have joined or are trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria and in Iraq – this number is more than the number of fighters from any other Western country and the authorities are worried that they will return home and stage attacks on French soil.

Australia joins the war against ISIS – will send 600 troops to UAE

Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia has indicated that Australia would be sending 600 troops to the Middle East ahead of possible combat operations against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq based on a specific US request bbc.com.
He has confirmed that the initial deployment would be to the United Arab Emirates. He has also added that the force would include up to eight Super Hornet fighter jets and was part of "an international coalition" and not simply an "American-Australian operation".
It may be noted that nearly 40 countries, including 10 Arab states, have signed up to a US-led plan to tackle the extremist group and France is hosting a regional security summit. US Secretary of State John Kerry has already arrived in Paris after a four-day tour of the Middle East trying to drum up support for action against IS.
French President Francois Hollande will welcome diplomats from up to 20 countries for a conference on Iraqi security and, these talks will come ahead of a UN Security Council meeting next week and a heads of state meeting at the UN General Assembly later this month.
US President Barack Obama had presented a strategy to fight the Islamic State (IS) militants group in both Iraq and Syria.
Australia has raised its terrorism threat level from medium to high and security officials are believed to be worried about the growing number of Australians who are "working with, connected to or inspired by" Islamist groups.
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Britain must tie up with Bashar al-Assad if it wants to defeat the ISIS

In the opinion of Lord Dannatt, the former Chief of the General Staff, a tie-up with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is the only way Britain can check the designs of the ISIS dailymail.co.uk/a>. He has said that it was impossible to fight the organization in Iraq while allowing it to retain its stronghold in bordering Syria.
Hence, Britain and America would have to take a step backwards and negotiate with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to defeat the growing threat posed by Islamic State. Unless such a step is taken and a bombing campaign is resorted to in Syria, it would be difficult to defeat the Islamic State insurgency.
The remarks of Lord Dannatt have come after French President Francois Hollande put the blame on Britain for the rise of Islamic State – also known as ISIS or ISIL.If timely action would have been taken one year ago, if the major powers had reacted to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, a situation would not have arisen when a choice has to be made between a dictator and a terrorist group.
President Hollande feels that the decision of Parliament decision to block airstrikes on Syria had allowed the ISIS to flourish, because it had ended any hope of replacing President Assad with members of the moderate opposition fighting him. The French President has said that, if two years ago, action had been taken to ensure a transition, the Islamic State would not have been born.
Incidentally, as per Navi Pillay, the UN Human Rights chief has revealed that over 191,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict up to April-2014 bbc.com.
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