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Monday, July 27, 2015

‘Jihadi John’ is believed to have left ISIS for fear of his life


‘Jihadi John’ is afraid of his life and fears that he could die at the hands of ISIS. He is wanted for the beheading murders of Americans and others seen on video and, it seems he has left the terrorist group ISIS.
He is also afraid of being in the eyes of the U.S.-led coalition forces apart from jealous jihadists within the Islamic State who feel he has robbed them of the limelight. Experts feel ISIS would drop him once they feel he has outlived his purpose. He also knows he will end up suffering the same fate as his victims.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 26 July 2015.
Jihadi John has already been identified as 26-year-old Mohammed Emwazi. He was born in Kuwait and raised in Britain and is the infamous covered face seen in numerous ISIS videos that showed the beheadings of British and American hostages.
His first ISIS video appearance was in August 2014 and is usually dressed with a black wrap covering his entire face, with only his eyes peeking through. But, once his true identity was revealed, he decided to flee.
He has the brutal murders of journalists Stephen Sotloff and James Foley on his head apart from the beheading of aid workers David Haines, Alan Henning and Peter Kassig.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

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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Monday, September 15, 2014

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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Monday, September 8, 2014

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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Saturday, September 6, 2014

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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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

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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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

US to fight terror with terror – spy flights to Syria would identify probable hot spots


US President Barack Obama has compared the rise of the ISIS in Iraq and Syria as ‘cancer’ and his motto appears to be ‘a tooth for a tooth’. He has said that he would do whatever is necessary to go after those miscreants who harm Americans.
He has vowed that "justice will be done" against the killers of James Foley news.sky.com. The US has already launched surveillance flights over Syria to identify possible targets for carrying out airstrikes. The Islamic State (IS) militants had beheaded the journalist in a video released earlier this month and have seized large chunks of Syria as well as neighboring Iraq. The US is already conducting airstrikes there.
President Obama cautioned that America does not forget – he was talking to veterans at an American Legion convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. He said - our reach is long, we are patient, justice will be done. Rooting out a cancer like ISIL would not be easy, neither would it be quick.
Syria is already devastated by a three-year civil war and it has warned Washington that it would need permission to operate in its airspace. However, White House spokesman Josh Earnest has reiterated by saying that the US did not even recognize Syria's president, Bashar al Assad, as the country's legitimate leader.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also echoed the same sentiments – she has said that when it came to defending US interests, "we're not going to ask for permission from the Syrian regime"
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

America in jitters over the beheading of James Foley by IS militants


IS militants demanded ransom of $132.5m for release of American journalist James Foley, US refused to pay, and the militants beheaded James Foley and publicized their actions via the internet news.sky.com.
This has sent jitters to Americans and US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has admitted that the airstrikes by US on selected ISIS targets have checked the IS advance, but has also cautioned that IS would regroup and stage a new offensive. In his opinion, it is more than a simple traditional "terrorist group" because it appears to be better armed, trained and funded than any recent threat.
In his words, they have combined ideology and a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess and are tremendously well funded.
It seems Islamic State (IS) fighters who beheaded American journalist James Foley had demanded $132.5m for his release. Two anonymous American officials have indicated that the ransom demands were sent via emails to the family of James Foley in Rochester, New Hampshire.
It has also transpired that the US - unlike several European countries that have given millions to the terror group to spare their citizens - refused to pay resulting in the gruesome murder. The beheading was captured on a video and the group says it was acting in retaliation for US airstrikes in Iraq.
Despite the threats of ISIS that they would kill a second US captive if attacks go on, American airstrikes have continued against IS forces in northern Iraq. US Navy fighters and drones have extended air cover to Iraqi and Kurdish forces to try and retake and maintain control of the strategically important Mosul Dam. Incidentally, the US has carried out 90 airstrikes in Iraq since August 8, with 57 of them in support of Iraqi government forces near the dam.
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Richard Barrett, the head of MI6 counter-terrorism group during the 9/11 attack on Twin Towers, New York, has remarked that the British fanatic who had beheaded the American journalist James Foley dailymail.co.uk would be identified and the SAS will be sent to Syria to 'bring him to justice'.
Richard Barrett is convinced that the murderer, now believed to be the world's most wanted man, will not escape but would be arrested and taken back to Britain for trial.
The suspect has been identified as ‘John' and he is one of a gang of British jihadis known as ‘The Beatles’ who are guarding western hostages for ISIS.
Mr Barratt has added that even though there are four or five hundred people who have gone from all over the United Kingdom to Syria and many of them have made their presence there known, it will not be difficult to identify him. In the opinion of Barratt, the community will be able recognize the individual and, in fact, many in the community would be keen to do so.
From available information, the Black Beatle is a senior Islamic State operative and had been entrusted to negotiate a hostage exchange earlier in the year. The security services are using advanced voice recognition techniques to try to identify the killer who is seen in the five-minute IS video.
As per information, the Briton is a lefty, wears Timberland boots, and speaks with an apparent East London accent as he makes a series of threats to President Obama and the West.
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