IS dares US to save American hostage Peter Kassig who is scheduled for beheading next

The Islamic State (IS) has made its intentions clear news.sky.com – no matter how many airstrikes are undertaken, it has now threatened to kill American hostage Peter Kassig next, after the beheading of British aid convoy volunteer Alan Henning.

Incidentally, Peter Kassig was in his mid-20s and hailed from Indiana – he had gone to the region to volunteer in hospitals in Lebanon after serving in Iraq. Once there, he spent time in Lebanon and then established his own charity to deliver aid to Syrians. He had named it Special Emergency Response and Assistance (SERA).
He was undertaking a project for SERA when he was detained on 1 October 2013 on his way to Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria. The former soldier Peter Kassig was shown in the video clip of beheading of Alan Henning – in the video, an IS fighter says - Obama, you have started your aerial bombardment in Sham. So it's only right we continue to strike the necks of your people.
Obviously, it is all about retaliation by the blood thirsty militants and, speaking on this video, President Barack Obama has strongly condemned the brutal murder of United Kingdom citizen Alan Henning by the terrorist group ISIL. In Obama’s words – Alan Henning worked to help improve the lives of the Syrian people and his death would be a great loss for not only them but also for his family and the people of the United Kingdom.

Lisa Monaco, Homeland Security adviser to the White House, has described the murder of Alan Henning as "yet another clear example of the brutality of this group" – it had, earlier, killed two American journalists - James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
The global community must join had to bring to justice the murderer of Alan Henning, Jim Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines.

Shock treatment of Islamic State – propaganda video on British hostage released

The Islamic State (IS) militants have released a new propaganda that depicts a British hostage. The video showing a British man, 47-year-old Alan Henning hailing from Salford, is believed to be held hostage by the IS militants bbc.com.
It may be recalled that the IS already has blood on its hands from three hostages namely US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff apart from the UK aid worker David Haines – the threat is now on another British man Alan Henning next. This latest video does not show any beheading, but shows a man wearing orange clothing who says he is a prisoner and who asks why he and others have been abandoned by the US and UK governments.
There are no IS militants visible in the video entitled "Lend Me Your Ears" and addressed to the Western public, especially the British public, particularly Muslims.
It seems the hostage was speaking to the camera in a "kind of parody of a chat show" and went on to accuse the US and UK governments for having done things differently. Other European governments have, apparently, negotiated for the release of their hostages but not the UK or the US.
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British PM David Cameron unnerved by latest beheading video

The latest ISIS video showing the beheading of 44-year-old British aid worker David Haines has unnerved British PM David Cameron and he has taken a vow to work with allies to defeat the terrorist group Islamic State foxnews.com.
Describing the coldblooded murder of Haines as "an act of pure evil", he has also added that countries must “drain this poison from our society.”
The PM was attending a wedding and raced back to London overnight to chair a meeting of his security Cabinet, including his advisers, officials and intelligence chiefs. He has reiterated that Islam is a religion of peace, and the militants were not Muslims but were monsters.
President Obama has condemned the murder as "barbaric" and has strongly condemned the barbaric murder of UK citizen David Haines by the terrorist group ISIL.
David Haines had been abducted in Syria in 2013 while he was engaged in working for an international aid agency and the British government had managed to keep his kidnapping secret out of concern for his safety until another video recently released by Islamic State, also known as ISIS, identified him as a captive.
The Islamic State militants had earlier beheaded two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, apart from Kurdish and Lebanese fighters, and posted the video evidence online. After the last video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, the ISIS had threatened to kill Haines next and briefly showed him on camera.
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Female jihadists from Britain working as ISIL’s female law enforcement brigade

The female wing of ISIS is believed to be the al-Khanssaa brigade – it is a female-only militia set up by the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria and the key figure is one Aqsa Mahmood, the 20-year-old of Glasgow, who fled to Syria last year dailymail.co.uk.
Reports indicate that British female jihadists are operating a religious police force that punishes women for 'un-Islamic' behavior – the group has around 60 such members from UK who have gone to Syria on jihad. Authorities are aware of the identity of some of these women.
Most of them are in the age-group of between 18 and 24, and their task is to weed out those people who are engaging in Western culture in Raqqa. The US hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff had both been beheaded in the desert near Raqqa hence, it is possible that the British women in al-Khanssaa could know the identity of who killed them.
The al-Khanssaa is a sharia law police brigade and is ISIL’s female law enforcement brigade and while it is felt that it is a mixture of British and French women, its social media accounts are run by the British and they are written in English.
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US in a limbo – it wants to eliminate IS militants but without boots on the ground

That the Islamic State is a serious threat to the US goes without saying and with its declared policy of ‘no US boots on the ground’, the big shots in White House and the Pentagon are working overtime to evolve a suitable strategy news.sky.com.
The US is, therefore, trying to form a sort of "core coalition" to battle Islamic State militants in Iraq. To achieve this, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have called for support as they held talks with officials from 10 nations on the sidelines of the NATO summit to build a strategy to defeat IS.
As John Kerry has remarked – there is a need to attack the IS in ways that prevent them from taking over territory, to bolster the Iraqi security forces and others in the region who are prepared to take them on, without committing troops of our own. That would be a red line for all concerned – there should be no boots on the ground.
Instead of direct military strikes, the 10 nations could provide intelligence, equipment or weapons. The 10 nations are US, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Denmark.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has added that there has to be a comprehensive response to the ISIL challenge.
The beheading of two American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff by the IS and the death of a senior IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in a US drone strike have led to the formation of a coalition.
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IS extremists behead second US journalist Steven Sotloff – warns Obama of more such deaths

The Islamic State extremists have beheaded a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and released its video with a warning to President Barack Obama that such deaths will continue as long as US keeps up its airstrikes against the militant group nzherald.co.nz. The video is ‘A Second Message to America’ and the message is - "our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people." The video footage was posted two weeks after the release of an earlier video that revealed the brutal killing of James Foley and days after Sotloff's mother pleaded for his life. The Sotloff family has confirmed the death of the 31-year-old Steven who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines. He had vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen again until he appeared in a video released online last month that showed Foley's beheading. It seems the IS has threatened to kill another hostage who has been identified as a British citizen named David Cawthorne Haines. In order to keep up its strangling of civilization, the IS extremist group has been publishing graphic photos and gruesome videos of everything from bombings and beheadings to mass killings – its aim is to keep terrorizing people from all walks of life.
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