Unlike previous beheadings, the reported killing of 26-year-old aid worker Peter Kassig was released in a video by ISIS today that didn’t actually show the beheading itself, which raised some early speculation that it didn’t really happen.
Despite this, the Obama Administration confirmed that Kassig, a former Army Ranger, was indeed beheaded, dubbing it an “act of pure evil.”
ISIS cited Kassig’s military service in the video, and unlike previous videos also did not show images of other detainees, though it did assure that more killings were coming in the future.
The voice of the ISIS narrator was also disguised this time, unlike in previous videos, which may suggest the group is increasingly concerned with keeping its “media team” anonymous in the face of growing US attacks.
In the video, ISIS also dismissed US claims to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago, saying that the troops have remained hidden behind their proxies in the Iraqi military.
William Blum has said that in the 1960s and early 1970s USAID has maintained "a close working relationship with the CIA, and Agency officers often operated abroad under USAID cover."[56] –citation, there, was Killing Hope.
Makes perfect sense to whack USAID folks. Same thing happened to the Black Panthers when Hoover saw them as 'winning hearts and minds' –e.g., as a kind of competition to the feds/hope of independence. But of course if I were evil, I'd be sure to emphasize that my supposed competitor did it rather than me.
The hand wringing over the ~'apparent' beheadings is a bit much. Surely the high thugs can critique them for other things…their poor singing voices, for example.
Criticism of their singing voices? Cheap shot! After all, you must consider that they have to sing 'a capella' since musical instruments are 'TAKFIR'. Sadly, the Qataris no longer support the guitar…not in Syria, anyway.
…was thinking in a Jack Nicholson/Batman-I spirit ("Joker here. Now you fellas have said some pretty mean things. Some of which were true, under that fiend Boss Grissom. He was a thief, and a terrorist. On the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice. He's dead now, and he's left me in charge.")…
But I could see that there could be some trouble making music where USg/'gulf state' money gos…
ISIS is the art work of cia, prince sultan Bandar of Saudi arabia, the Turkish Erdogan regime and is Islamic faked religious, a state terrorist sponsored and those whom are in business wanting for ISIS to be stationed as a barbaric regime in middle east, like NATO countries and that Swedish king.
To state the obvious
Blowback from Iraq invasion that murdered 1 million and unqualified support for the Zionist regime on occupied Palestinian lands.
Obama and British prime minister before him called it pure evil?! Is there impure evil? What should the deliberate killing of 500000 Iraqi children"[the price worth ]" by the US called?Is the way or the method by which some one is killed or murdered is the criteria by which to judge an action?Events seem to suggest that killing by the US and those who run in its orbit is good ,but killing by others are evil.When ISIS started, it killed hundreds Syrians and Iraqi Muslims,no one one cared or felt outraged ,but the moment it killed one or two Europeans and Americans the whole world got angry!Palestinians are very well aware of this too.
ISIS was brought into existence by crown prince of the United Arab Emirates as means to sabotage any Muslim group and organization that wish to participate in the affairs of their countries peacefully.He hired former Black Water founder to organize and train mercenary force to abort the desire and the effort of any people in any Arab country to be free from tyrant rulers and family control.He started that in Egypt where he instigated and financed the overthrow of the first democratically elected government in Egypt because it was independent and not beholden to petrodollar and was not easily bought.The existence of ISIS is now used to justify war on any group that threaten the Status quo that tyrants want to maintain.
Islamic State — A creation of the CIA
Surely Mojo has it true and correct, for is it not the only scenario that fits? For first all those Iraq generals disappeared from the battlefield, then came only 800 ISIS troops to overrun an Iraq force of 30,000 and capture billions of dollars worth of war materials.
For if ISIS wants to create a Muslim nation for the Sunni tribes, why is it executing so many Sunni civilians that are not in the war? And to behead aid workers and others who were thought highly of by the Sunni tribes, where is the religion, where is the logic?
For the Islamic State has nothing Muslim about it, quite the reverse, for so eager to kill with no serious effort to win the hearts and minds, surely it is after the mold of Empire USA as it slaughters only to get fearful Submission.
Just think of all the young men from America and Western Europe who join the Islamic State thinking their battling to end brutal Western imperialism, only to be sent into the front line to suffer a quick death. Think of all the would be terrorists who are being liquidated before they have a chance to damage the homeland.
Did I mention how much I do not believe a word about any of this?