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Looks like I was wrong (mark that down in your books of course....)

Salvadore is the guy's name:

Woman beheaded: Details emerge of Edmonton suspect Nicholas Salvadore









Suspect has been named as Nicholas Salvadore, 25


Rose Troup Buchanan



Friday 05 September 2014

Details have begun to emerge about the man who has been arrested after a great-grandmother was brutally murdered in her back garden yesterday.



Identified locally as Nicholas Salvadore, the 25-year-old is believed to be a would-be cage fighter, living only a few doors away from 82-year-old Palmira Silva’s home in Edmonton, north London.


Police arrested Salvadore, who was named by The Evening Standard, on suspicion of murder after a violent confrontation on Nightingale Street, during which a Taser was discharged and a police officer injured.


Salvadore was under armed guard in hospital today.


Detectives say they have ruled out terrorism as a motive.


Italian-born Mrs Silva, who was described by neighbours yesterday evening as “a sweet old lady”, was found dead in the back garden of her home of 30 years yesterday afternoon.


Police were initially called at around 1pm to investigate a man dressed in black, whom neighbours said had decapitated a cat with a foot-long, machete-like blade, and who was running through rear gardens banging on doors and windows.

5 September 2014 Last updated at 06:55 ET Palmira Silva 'beheading' suspect under police guard


Police do not know whether Palmira Silva knew her attacker

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A man held in connection with a suspected beheading of an 82-year-old woman in north London remains under police guard in hospital.


The body of Palmira Silva was found in a garden behind a house in Edmonton on Thursday afternoon.


Officers found her collapsed at the scene where she was pronounced dead.


A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder by armed officers who discharged a Taser. Officers plan to question him when he is well enough.


An officer is also believed to have suffered a broken wrist during the arrest.


Homes evacuated

Police said they were initially called to reports of a man armed with a knife and eyewitnesses said he had attacked an animal, possibly a cat or a dog.

The BBC's Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw said it was unknown whether the victim and the suspect were known to each other



Speaking at the scene, Cdr Simon Letchford said police had distracted the man while they evacuated nearby homes.


He said officers smashed windows to get people out of properties after the man was "cornered" in a house.


'Jumping over gardens'
One eyewitness, Freda Odame, 30, said she saw a man screaming and waving a weapon around.


"I heard shouting and banging and I opened my curtains and saw a guy holding a knife in a back garden a few doors along," she said.


Ahmed Yusuf, 19, said police knocked on his door and told him to leave the property immediately.


"The police said to drop everything. I said 'What's going on?' and they said there's a guy jumping over gardens," he said.
Palmira Silva ran Silva's Cafe in Church Street
Detectives investigating Ms Silva's death are also looking into an earlier attempted attack on two people at another address in Nightingale Road. Officers said the pair were not thought to have been hurt in the incident.
Police said they had traced the victim's next of kin but were unwilling to speculate on the nature of her injuries or the type of weapon used.
The motive for the attack is still unclear and it is not known whether the victim and the suspect were known to each other.
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London is a safe city and incidents like this are very rare”

Boris Johnson London Mayor
London Mayor Boris Johnson has also expressed his "shock" at the attack.
"Yesterday's events in Edmonton were truly shocking and my thoughts are with Palmira Silva's family during this incredibly difficult time," he said.
"London is a safe city and incidents like this are very rare. I'd like to commend the bravery shown by the officers involved in keeping other members of the public safe during a very volatile situation."
A neighbour who knew Ms Silva, said the widow had lived in the house for more than 25 years and ran Silva's Cafe in Church Street, near Edmonton Green.
"I was speaking to her yesterday. She was weeding in the front garden, she loved her gardening," she said.
"She was such a sweet lady. She was slow getting around but she still went to work. I think really after her husband died that's what kept her going."
The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, has been informed of the incident.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Saturday at Haringey Mortuary.
A number of police forensic officers attended the scene

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The Nazis Are Back: Muslims Form “Sharia Police” Patrol in Germany

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The Nazis are back indeed. Only this time, believe it or not, their “king” is much worse than Hitler himself …

Revelation 9:11, “They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).”

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Qur’an Sura 18:26, “[Allah] maketh none to share in his government.”

NBC News – “Small groups of hardline Salafist Muslims have been patrolling the streets of a German city hoping to ‘influence and recruit young people,’ police said. The groups were seen in the western city of Wuppertal wearing bright orange reflective vests with ‘Shariah Police’ on the back. ‘This was seen as a violation against Germany’s public assembly law and charges were filed,’ police spokesman Andre Schwanicke told NBC News. Officials say they have increased the police presence in the city.
Meanwhile, a YouTube propaganda video from the German Salafist scene was posted online showing a poster with the English headline ‘Shariah Controlled Zone’, followed by images of Salafists recruiting young people and visiting gambling halls. ‘The video is a new provocation and part of the Salafist propaganda, which shows that the scene does not acknowledge Germany’s rule of law,’ Joerg Rademacher, spokesman for the state’s interior ministry said. Officials in Northrhein-Westphalia say that the Salafist scene in Germany’s most populated state consists of approximately 1,800 members alone, of which 10 percent are considered to be violent extremists.
‘An appearance that intimidates, unsettles and provokes will not be tolerated. There is no legitimation for this ‘Shariah Police’,’ Birgitta Radermacher, police chief of Wuppertal was quoted as saying in a statement.” Source – NBC News.
Flashback: ‘The Sharia Triangle': Dutch Anxious As Islamic Law Takes Over Muslim-Dominated Area Of The Hague – “There have been calls for an urgent debate in the Dutch parliament about the integration of Muslim immigrants amid claims that one area of The Hague, known locally as ‘the Sharia triangle’, is being run by a form of unofficial Sharia police… The investigation found that orthodox Muslims had become so dominant that they were dictating what people in the neighbourhood wore and how they behaved. ‘The norms of the majority are beginning to take over,’ it said. In the case of women, dress was a particular issue.” Read more.
Flashback: UK: Islamists Continue to Set Up ‘Sharia Neighborhoods’ in London, Plans to Flood Muslim and Non-Muslim Communities – “Islamists in Britain have set up zones where the Muslim Sharia law would be enforced, local media reported last week. The Daily Mail reported that some communities have been bombarded with bright yellow posters which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’ The messages were found on bus stops and street lamps, said the report, and have already been seen across certain boroughs in London. They order that ‘no gambling’, ‘no music or concerts’, ‘no drugs or smoking’ and ‘no alcohol’ should be seen in the Sharia-controlled zone.” Read more.
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On the other hand... papers are reporting this guy is an islam convert.

Edmonton Woman Beheaded: 'Sun Spreads Fear with Islamophobic Front Page'

By Ewan Palmer | IB Times – 3 hours ago

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The Sun newspaper has been criticised for inciting hatred and spreading fear with an inflammatory front page headline of the beheading of an 82-year-old woman in Edmonton.


Palmira Silva was found dead in the garden of her north London home on Thursaday following reports of a man armed with a machete in the area.


The suspect, named locally as Nicholas Salvadore, was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene by armed police. The 25-year-old was Tasered by officers, one of whom is receiving treatment for a broken wrist.


Metropolitan Police are waiting to question the suspect to establish a motive but have repeatedly said the incident does not appear to be related to terrorism.

Details are still emerging about the suspect. On the tabloid's front page, the headline claims that Silva was killed by a "Muslim convert" who had recently "grown a beard".


An unnamed source for the paper added that Salvadore converted to Islam in April and "even prayed when he was at work".


The paper has been accused of being "irresponsible" and "pretty disgusting" over its emphasis of the suspect's alleged religion.


The incident comes in the same week that two US journalists were beheaded by ISIS militants in the Middle East.


Metropolitan Police DCI John Sandlin said he is "confident" the incident in Edmonton was unrelated to terrorism.


Further details have emerged of the incident at Nightingale Road, including that the suspect is alleged to have attacked a cat with the same weapon used against Silva.


Elsewhere, one female neighbour of the deceased grandmother of Italian descent described her as a "sweet lady".


She told the BBC: "I was speaking to her yesterday. She was weeding in the front garden, she loved her gardening.


"She was such a sweet lady. She was slow getting around but she still went to work. I think really after her husband died that's what kept her going."


Cmmdr Simon Letchford said of the incident: "These sort of events on our streets during the day in residential areas are very, very unusual and not common.


"We still need to understand the motivation behind this attack and before we've done that and carried out an investigation I am unwilling to speculate what that may be."

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Man suspected of beheading a London woman attacked two other people


By Abby Phillip September 5 at 10:18 AM Follow @abbydphillip

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The 25-year-old man arrested under the suspicion that he murdered a woman in broad daylight at a London garden also attacked two other people, police said.
Police have released the name of the victim, 82-year-old Palmira Silva, who was found collapsed in a garden behind a home on Nightingale Road in Edmonton. According to reports, witnesses at the scene believe Silva was beheaded. Police have not confirmed the nature of her injuries and have not yet identified the suspect.

Friday’s Daily Mirror front page – “Gran, 82, beheaded in her back garden” #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/ZymgUgL7Ih
— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 4, 2014

The brazen, brutal crime was discovered early Thursday afternoon after witnesses called the police to report a man carrying a knife.
“The male had been seen to be carrying a knife and to attack a car,” Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford said at a news conference Thursday.
The other attack occurred at a different home in the North London neighborhood, where two people were able to escape without injuries, police said in a statement.
Police have declined to disclose the weapon, but according to the Guardian, witnesses said they saw a man who was wearing all black carrying a “long-bladed weapon with a curved edge.”
“I heard lots of screaming and shouting next door,” an unnamed neighbor said, according to the Mirror. “Then a guy with a knife was in our back garden. There was a lot of blood on the knife and he was just hacking away at stuff. It’s just *unbelievable, I’m so shocked.”
The suspect was hospitalized following his arrest.
Police have insisted that they are not searching for any other suspects and do not believe the incident is terror-related.
According to the Guardian:

The investigation is being led by specialist murder detectives, not by Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command. There was no suggestion from witnesses that the attacker said anything related to religion, as happened in the 2013 murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London.

Friday’s Metro front page – “Beheaded on a London street” #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/qfVObDpSWZ
— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 4, 2014

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Retired officer explains ISIS and its threat

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Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin joined Boston Herald Radio’s “Trending Now” with Tom Shattuck to discuss ISIS, its execution of a second American journalist and the threat the terrorist group poses to the United States.
Q: What do you make of ISIS’ execution of American journalist Steven Sotloff?
A: It’s very important to understand that this organization ISIS has been around for a long time. We’ve been watching this since probably about 2003 when it was actually called ‘al-Qaeda in Iraq.’ This is a methodology that they’ve used for a long time. They have been beheading people for a long time and America has been watching that, and our administration has known who these people are and what their methodology is. The fact that they just beheaded another journalist and they’ve done it so publicly is really a matter of taunting our president and the American people. They are essentially poking a finger in our eye and it is all about improving and enhancing their recruiting. As you know, we’re getting lots of Europeans as well as a good number of Americans who are going to Iraq and Syria to be part of that organization, and that’s what this is all about.
Q: What effect does President Obama saying that he doesn’t have a strategy have on ISIS?
A: Common sense tells you it is an encouragement for them. For them to hear that coming from our president ... it is an encouragement, and they are taking advantage of that.
Q: Do you suspect this is a ploy or do you think he really doesn’t have a plan?
A: I think it’s entirely possible that we don’t have a strategy yet. Our foreign policy is in such shambles particularly when it deals with these radical Islamic groups. Look what we’ve done in Syria, Libya, Egypt. ... He and the people who are surrounding him have no concept on how to deal with these organizations. As a result of that, I think that (ISIS) are essentially not taking him seriously. They are taking advantage of the opportunities they have.
Q: Why is it important for the U.S., which is not immediately at risk from groups like this, to consider this crucial to our own national security?
A: It’s very important for Americans to understand that coming across our southern border, we know there are Islamic terrorists. They are coming across our border and have been for quite some time so they are already inside the United States. We have embassies all round the world that are vulnerable to attacks from these same groups. America’s interests are very vulnerable. It is important to Americans to realize that ISIS is not just a threat in Iraq and Syria but it’s a threat right here in America.
Q: Is Boston a target for these terrorists?
A: Boston is a big city, it’s a historic city. It is so significant in terms of America. I think it’s an epicenter in some way just like New York.

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ISIS vs US: Why doesn't Obama understand we are already at war?

By Rebeccah Heinrichs
Published September 02, 2014FoxNews.com


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Tuesday, news broke that the Islamic State had released a “Second Message to America” in the form of an Internet video in which it claimed it had brutally murdered another American journalist, Steven Sotloff.
It’s almost impossible to put into words the horror of it. One can only hope that the people who sympathize with the Islamic State aren’t the only ones now motivated to do something. But recent events don’t offer much encouragement.
Most tellingly, Fox News' James Rosen asked State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki the question Tuesday that many of us have had on our minds:
“A lot of Americans are sitting at home and they see Americans who are not even combatants, but who are journalists, being beheaded by this group overseas. From a common sense point of view, the average American will say to himself, ‘This group is at war with us. Why does our president or our secretary of state not recognize that and say, 'Indeed, we are at war with this group and we will destroy them?’”
Psaki dismissed the question and said the U.S. has"done more than any other country in the world... to take on the threat in Iraq."If only the goal was an A, and we were being graded on a curve.
But while our government may not recognize ISIS is at war with us, others see it all too well and approve.
Last week news outlets were buzzing about the letter the Fort Hood terrorist, Nidal Hasan,wrote to the head of ISIS, asking to become a citizen of the Islamic State. Hasan has been forthright about his religious and political beliefs. But this doesn’t mean the most senior administration officials ever believed him.

In a May 2010 Judiciary Committee hearing, Congressman Lamar Smith asked Attorney General Eric Holder if Hasan’s religion motivated his attack.
Remarkably, with a facial expression that seemed as if he was actually pained by the question, Mr. Holder refused to admit that Hasan was motivated by his religion. It can be seen here.
He still may not fully understand what motivates ISIS, but he’s at least demonstrating he understands just how dangerous they are, including to Americans.
This is one of the fundamental reasons the president doesn’t have a strategy for dealing with ISIS, as he publicly confessed in his now infamous tan suit, no strategy press conference.
He has yet to come to terms with the reality that some ideologies, including religious ones, are evil.
In the president’s words, “So ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.”
Meanwhile, ISIS goes about implementing its strategy to, in the words of former acting CIA director Mike Morell, “set up that caliphate and, it’s not just in Iraq and in Syria,” and then “…to use that as a safe haven to attack the United States.”
Some commentators have been gracious towards the president, choosing to criticize his admission that he has no strategy rather than criticizing that he has none. But given how high the stakes are, he deserves harsh criticism for both.
Of course developing a strategy is hard. But it is only made impossible when one simply refuses to grasp what motivates the enemy. Not everyone believes like President Obama does, values what he values, and not everyone is shocked by the same things he’s shocked by.
But the president said, for example, that “the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of James Foley” and that his brutal death “shocks the conscience of the entire world.”
That’s not true. Nadal Hasan certainly wasn’t appalled, and there are more out there just like him. Reports show that more than 7,000 foreign fighters have joined ISIS, including dozens of Americans.
Some of us believe it is morally reprehensible to take a man’s life because of his inherent God-given worth regardless of his political or religious beliefs, ethnicity, or citizenship. Our consciences are shocked by James Foley’s—and now Steven Sotloff’s-- horrendous deaths.We are outraged. We are grieving for their families. And we want justice for Foley and Sotloff and to be protected from the Islamic State and those who share its agenda.
But the president seems all too aware of America’s “war-weariness” and rather than explaining what he intends to do, he emphasizes the limited nature of the current U.S. military campaign in Iraq. His foreign policy is driven by the maxim, in his words “don’t do stupid sh*t.”
The American people are better than this. They know there are countless courses, involving activity and inactivity, that the U.S. could choose to do -- choose being the operative word, as opposed to being paralyzed by indecision. Americans know there are more choices than feckless crusades and open-ended nation-building on one hand, and waffling and hand-wringing on the other.
The president said the Islamic State will “ultimately fail because the future is won by those who build and not destroy, and the world is shaped by people like James Foley.”
No. The future is won by those whose wills are matched by their capacities to realize them.
The president better dig down and find the will to respond, get a sound strategy, and spell out those decisions with the courage of his convictions to the American people-- who stand ready to listen.

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Presidential mushiness on ISIS attacks

By Joan Vennochi

| Globe Columnist September 04, 2014

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An undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group shows a fighter waving their flag from inside a captured government fighter jet in Syria.


It’s getting very personal between President Obama and the Islamic State militant group that beheaded a second US hostage — and for that, Obama has no one to blame but himself.
“I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,” said the masked fighter with the British accent, who stars in the gruesome video showing the beheading of journalist Steven J. Sotloff and appears to be the same person who also beheaded journalist James Foley.
In response to Sotloff’s murder, Obama vowed to punish the militants behind it. “Our objective is clear, and that is: degrade and destroy,” he said before the start of a NATO summit in Wales.
It’s doubtful any jihadists are overly intimidated by Obama’s latest remarks, given all the presidential mushiness that preceded them. Instead, they will use his threats to strengthen their own position, for they no doubt agree with the late Osama bin Laden’s doctrine of power: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
However, some of us prefer a smart horse, which was once Obama’s claim to fame.
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We do not need empty swagger from a president, or knee-jerk military action. Calmness and thoughtfulness are admirable qualities in crises. But if that’s what Obama is trying to communicate, he has been missing the mark. He has badly mismanaged the image of how he is dealing with the brutal group called ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) — from the much-maligned round of golf he played right after decrying Foley’s death to last week’s presidential declaration that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to deal with ISIS.
Obama also took deserved heat for a statement from an earlier New Yorker interview during which the president was asked to assess the potential capabilities of ISIS.

Somewhere between Bush’s cowboy machismo and Obama’s above-it-all posturing is that quality called leadership.

“I think the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said then. Asked recently about the analogy, a White House spokesman said the president’s JV remark “was not singling out” ISIS. However, David Remnick, the interviewer, specifically refers to the takeover of Fallujah, which was spearheaded by ISIS. A Washington Post “Fact Checker” report, which deconstructs the New Yorker interview, notes that Remnick described Obama’s response as “an uncharacteristically flip analogy,” and it does seem flip for a president to trash talk terrorists as if they were NBA players he might someday meet on a playoff court.
It’s not the first time a president has been criticized for employing the wrong tone with terrorists — or the first time it has gotten personal between them. It happened after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when President George W. Bush said of bin Laden, “I want justice. And there’s an old poster out West, I recall, that says, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive.’ ” After that statement, bin Laden issued a videotaped message mocking the “infidel” Bush.
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Somewhere between Bush’s cowboy machismo and Obama’s above-it-all posturing is that quality called leadership. It may not stop terrorists from carrying out their agenda, but it reassures American citizens in uncertain times. What’s lacking now is what Obama has been able to project in the past, the sense that he’s the grown-up in the room. Instead, there’s a feeling that when it comes to ISIS, he’s the one suiting up a JV team up against varsity-level butchery.
The deaths of Foley and Sotloff are horrible, but the president shouldn’t be pushed into misguided response. Obama’s message is important, but in the end, implementing the right strategy is more important. Obama has shown the killer instinct before — bin Laden’s demise is proof of that, along with America’s unrepentant drone strategy.
US airstrikes are weakening ISIS in Iraq, said Obama. Now the issue is whether the United States will be pushed to take the fight to Syria. Obama is holding back on that, seeking a broad coalition of international support.
Meanwhile, the masked man with a knife at the throat of a helpless victim is goading a US president. He wants to make it personal, but Obama should let him know by his words and actions that it’s bigger than that.

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America’s best chance to defeat ISIS

By Mohammed Alaa Ghanem

September 4, 2014 | 5:31am
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If ISIS remains viable, it will eventually strike on US soil. America’s best bet, perhaps its only bet, for preventing that is to go after the terror group in Syria as well as Iraq — and to do so in partnership with the moderate rebels in Syria.
Of course, the White House is far from any such strategy. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey recently said ISIS is mainly a regional threat to US interests, and he may be right for now.
But if ISIS can surge its recruitment here, as it most certainly has ambitions to, then it will fast metastasize into a threat to every American. An ISIS representative in Syria has already expressed the group’s desire to “raise the flag of Allah at the White House.”
Douglas McAuthur McCain, the US citizen recently killed while fighting for ISIS, was only one of over a hundred Americans who’ve reportedly joined ISIS.
Some Western-raised fighters will inevitably return home as radicalized, proficient killers who know how to fit in at any shopping mall, sports stadium or tourist site. Men like these can transform from regional threats to domestic terror threats in the course of an airplane ride.
No amount of action in Iraq will end the ISIS threat to the US homeland. To address the threat from Syria, Obama should dramatically expand collaboration with the moderate Syrian rebels who are fighting ISIS and the Assad regime.
ISIS in Syria is not the same as ISIS in Iraq. In Iraq, ISIS has at least some popular support from disaffected Sunnis.
In Syria, nearly all ISIS victories have come at the expense of rebels who oppose President Bashar al-Assad.
And ISIS has sought to consolidate its “caliphate” by targeting civilians who espouse a different vision. Syrians view ISIS as a hostile occupying army, and have responded accordingly.
On Jan. 3, Syrians in opposition areas held massive protests against ISIS abuses. Within three days, moderate rebels had formed new anti-ISIS coalitions to rout ISIS from northwestern Syria.
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The rebels beat ISIS again in July outside Damascus, and popular protests and guerrilla attacks against ISIS are ongoing in eastern Syria.
Syrian rebels did all this without US air support. Indeed, they were often under fierce bombardment by Assad forces even as they were rolling back ISIS.
Arming Syria’s rebels is the common-sense choice, and indeed, no other US option stands a chance of removing ISIS’s Syrian sanctuaries before they begin exporting extremists back to America.
As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has warned, airstrikes in Iraq have only “stalled” ISIS, which is well able to “regroup and stage an offensive.”
In a way, these limited strikes actually supercharge ISIS recruitment, by allowing the group to claim it survived against the US without being dealt a major blow.
Proposals for US collaboration with Assad against ISIS, often marketed as “realistic,” are flights of fancy. First, most ISIS territory in Syria hasn’t seen a regime troop patrol in two years. Assad could only bomb from the air, and we know ISIS can handle that. The US needs partners on the ground.
Second, the regime has played footsie with the jihadis of ISIS and al Qaeda in Iraq for a decade.
In 2008, the Combatting Terrorism Center concluded that Assad had for years “willingly ignored, and possibly abetted, foreign fighters headed to Iraq.”
This January, as Syrian rebels fought ISIS near the group’s headquarters, Assad bombed the rebels while leaving ISIS positions untouched.
After Mosul fell, Assad and ISIS conducted a de facto joint siege against opposition forces in eastern Syria. Even now, Assad and ISIS forces in northern Syria are less than two miles apart in some locations, but don’t confront each other.
Instead, they are advancing in parallel on the main Syrian rebel stronghold.
Despite recent strikes on ISIS once Western cameras were rolling, Assad’s record shows clearly that he is not a reliable or capable ally against terrorism.
And America has much to lose through working with Assad. ISIS has achieved prodigious global recruiting success by claiming solidarity with Muslims victimized by Assad. US collaboration with Assad would be the ultimate gift to ISIS recruiters, especially in the West.
Eliminating ISIS requires working with those in Syria who have the best record against ISIS: the mainstream Syrian rebels. They’re not on the verge of extinction, but gaining in many parts of Syria.
The combined forces of the Kurdish anti-Assad brigades, anti-ISIS brigades in northern Syria, moderate rebels in the south and the anti-ISIS coalition outside Damascus easily exceeds 60,000 fighters, while ISIS numbers at most 50,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq.
President Obama has already decided that he doesn’t need to ask Assad’s permission to strike in Syria.
In July, he sent special forces into Syria to try to rescue James Foley from ISIS. He’s also authorized drone flights over Syria to gather intelligence on ISIS positions and movements.
Once this intelligence is gathered, the president should authorize immediate airstrikes on ISIS positions and provide advanced weaponry to moderate rebels spearheading the fight against both ISIS and Assad.
Mohammed Alaa Ghanem is senior political adviser for the Syrian American Council, a board member of the Coalition for a Democratic Syria and a fellow at the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

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Another country heard from....

A Local Sheriff Leaves a Strong Message for ISIS

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Tom Fernandez

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MIDLAND, TX (Local Big 2 News) — The extreme militant group, ISIS continues to terrorize the Middle East, and threatens Americans, as the militia members have now murdered two American journalists. These terrible acts of violence have “local” law enforcement on standby.


“These people have said they’re going to takeover, they’re going to strike, they’re going to hit, and we’re going to be ready,” said Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter.


Ready for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS.


“We do have plans in place, we have an operational plan that’ll work,” said Painter.


Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter says he’s armed with specific ISIS information from an online intelligence briefing.


“There are ISIS sales that are operating in Juarez, Mexico,” said Painter.


While Sheriff Painter doesn’t believe West Texans are in immediate danger, his staff preps for the worst.


“We practice things, we have tag teams that are ready to go,” said Painter.


To put Americans at ease, the Secretary of Homeland Security released a statement on the issue, saying quote, “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are unaware of any specific, credible threat to the U.S.”


But Painter isn’t taking any chances.


“If it happens, we’re going to handle it, I can promise you that,” said Painter.


ISIS claims it’s sending a message to the United States with the ruthless murders of two American journalists, but Sheriff Painter has a message of his own.


“I have no doubt, that if any of these fools show up we’ll be glad to take care of them,” said Painter.

[American Patriot]

ALERT: ISIS Insurgents Located 8 Miles Away From El Paso, Texas

in News, World News / by Dom the Conservative / on September 4, 2014 at 3:52 pm /

America is the safest it has ever been in the last 30 years, at least according to President Barack Obama. But just how vulnerable the U.S. is has struck fear into the hearts of Americans, who are cautious of another terrorist attack on the anniversary of September 11 attacks.


Now, shocking evidence has been released that ISIS has established a base very close to home, in preparation for horrific attacks on America herself.


Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, has released a report claiming that ISIS insurgents are operating in Ciudad Juarez, just 8 miles from El Paso, Texas.


With countless illegal immigrants crossing the Southern border daily, the terrifying news is very believable since ISIS supporters have encouraged insurgents and activists to enter the unsecured U.S. border through Mexico.


Judicial Watch says the information was confirmed by high level law-enforcement and intelligent officials.

FOX News reports:

The report states that intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry an attack out on the border” and that “it’s coming very soon.”


Judicial Watch writes that their sources say the attacks are so imminent, that Homeland Security, Justice, and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert, and that the commanding general at Fort Bliss is in the process of being briefed.

Fort Bliss has also begun taking necessary steps in preparation for an attack:

“I am aware of the article and we take threats against Fort Bliss seriously,” says Lt. Col. Lee Peters, a Fort Bliss spokesman. “Therefore, we continuously work with local and federal law enforcement agencies to assess threat levels in El Paso and can adjust our security measures based on these assessments. I am not sure of the validity of the article, but vigilance and preparedness are keys to maintaining a safe and secure installation.”

However, Obama and the United States Department of Homeland Security deny knowledge of a threat, stating, “The DHS and the FBI are unaware of any specific, credible threat to the U.S. homeland from ISIL.”

[American Patriot]

Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning Update: Ft. Bliss Increases Security

AUGUST 29, 2014
UPDATED: 08/31/2014 at 4:45 PM ET


Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.


Specifically, the government sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.


Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry out an attack on the border,” according to one JW source. “It’s coming very soon,” according to another high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as “ISIS and Al Qaeda.” An attack is so imminent that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army post in El Paso, is being briefed, JW’s sources say. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to multiple inquiries from Judicial Watch, both telephonic and in writing, about this information.


But two days after JW published this report Ft. Bliss implemented increased security measures. The statement that went out to the media attributes the move to several recent security assessments and the constant concern for the safety of military members, families, employees and civilians. However, El Paso’snewspaper credited JW’s Friday piece about ISIS terrorists planning an attack on U.S. soil from Juarez as a possible factor.


The disturbing inside intelligence comes on the heels of news reports revealing that U.S. intelligence has picked up increased chatter among Islamist terror networks approaching the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. While these terrorists reportedly plan their attack just outside the U.S., President Obama admits that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to combat ISIS. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” the commander-in-chief said this week during a White House press briefing. “I think what I’ve seen in some of the news reports suggest that folks are getting a little further ahead of what we’re at than what we currently are.”


The administration has also covered up, or at the very least downplayed, a serious epidemic of crime along the Mexican border even as heavily armed drug cartels have taken over portions of the region. Judicial Watch has reported that the U.S. Border Patrol actually ordered officers to avoid the most crime-infested stretches because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could result in an “international incident” of cross border shooting. In the meantime, who could forget the famous words of Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano; the southern border is “as secure as it has ever been.”


These new revelations are bound to impact the current debate about the border crisis and immigration policy.

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The Obama Administration's foreign policy is turning the world upside down...

Isis threat: Cameron wants an alliance with Iran




PM calls on Tehran to engage with the international community to beat extremists

Oliver Wright

Whitehall Editor

Sunday 17 August 2014

Britain must prepared to ally itself with Iran to combat the “shared threat” of Sunni Islamist extremists in Iraq and Syria who want to create “a terrorist state” that could extend to “the shores of the Mediterranean,” David Cameron has said.

Suggesting that it was now in the UK’s national interest to put aside decades of enmity with the Shia regime in Tehran, the PM called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to “engage with the international community” in combating Isis.

Mr Cameron even hinted UK opposition to the regime of President Assad in Syria could be tempered by the threat from Isis. He warned Islamic fighters had the “ancient city of Aleppo firmly within its sights”, where Syrian Government forces are fighting.

The new position reflects a growing realisation that US and British opposition to Assad and support for Sunni rebels in Syria have allowed Isis to grow in power and create what Mr Cameron described as a “so-called caliphate” across large swathes of Syria and Northern Iraq. But it will cause deep anger in Israel that still believed the Iranian regime is intent upon its destruction and is misleading the West promises of a deal on its nuclear programme.

In pictures: The rise of Isis

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In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Cameron wrote that Britain was in the midst of a “generational struggle” that would last “for the rest of my political lifetime”.

“Already IS [Isis] controls not just thousands of minds, but thousands of square miles of territory... It makes no secret of its expansionist aims... And it boasts of its designs on Jordan and Lebanon, and right up to the Turkish border. If it succeeds, we would be facing a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean and bordering a Nato member. This is a clear danger to Europe.”

He continued to rule out a greater role for UK troops in Iraq, saying that the effort must be put into strengthening Kurdish and Iraqi forces.

Video: British Muslims condemn Isis

Mr Cameron’s policy faced criticism from the Church of England, which accused the Government of appearing to have no “coherent or comprehensive approach” to tackling Islamic extremism.

In a strongly worded attack – backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury – the Bishop of Leeds said “many” top clergy were seriously concerned.
The Rt Rev Nicholas Baines has written to the PM, questioning whether there is any long-term strategy and criticising a “growing silence” over the fate of the plight of persecuted Christians.



Reports say that ISIS have killed 80 people in a fresh massacre Writing inThe Independent on Sunday, General Sir Richard Shirreff, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said: “This unhappy saga highlights all too graphically the collective loss of nerve in matters of defence and security, increasingly the defining characteristic of this government.

“The consequence has been knee-jerk reactions dictated by events, whether last year's abortive attempt to launch Tomahawk missiles at Syria, or last week's response to events in northern Iraq.”

[Ryan Ruck]

The Obama Administration's foreign policy is turning the world upside down...

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Henry Kissinger, this weekend on Face the Nation:

“When an American is murdered on television, for the purpose of terrorizing Americans, there should be a response that you would not analyze in terms of a normal response to provocation. Something has to crystallize out of this violence, and it won’t happen without our leadership. We cannot do it ourselves. But we can make clear that certain tactics will be strongly resisted.”

He went on to say, other countries are worried about an American withdrawal from volatile regions around the world.

"They have implied that a withdrawal of America from certain regions is actually beneficial to these regions," he said. "The worry is not so much about American presence, it's about American absence."

[American Patriot]

Cruz on ISIS: Obama Should 'Take Them Out'

GOP has lots of advice, even Feinstein says action 'overdue'




By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff


Posted Sep 7, 2014 1:11 PM CDT

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(Newser) – With President Obama's speech outlining his ISIS "game plan" coming Wednesday, there was no shortage of opinion today on the talk shows about what he should do. "What we ought to have is a directed, concerted, overwhelming campaign to take them out," Ted Cruz told ABC.

"The focus should be Iraq, but the real focus should be taking out ISIS. Within Syria, it should not be our objective to try and resolve the civil war." Cruz dinged Obama for not "taking ISIS seriously," and added that "the American people in 2014 and also November 2016 are going to be looking for leaders who want to work to restore America’s leadership in the world." Which, coincidentally, "increases my interest in doing everything I can to change the direction we’re on," vis a vis a 2016 run, notes Politico.

More from your Sunday dial, as per Politico:

Henry Kissinger: "When an American is murdered on television for the purpose of terrorizing Americans, there should be a response that you cannot, you would not, analyze in terms of a normal response to provocation. Something has to crystallize out of this violence and it won’t happen without our leadership."


Mitt Romney: Obama "is so out of touch with reality that he hasn't taken the kind of action necessary to prevent very bad things from happening," like the rise of ISIS. "I don't know if you can't see reality from the fairway."


Dianne Feinstein: "I want to congratulate the president. He is now on offense. It is overdue, but the president is now there. I think it is the right thing for America. Time's a-wasting. We've now said that we’re going to go on the offensive. It's time for America to project power and strength."


Mike Rogers: Obama should "lay out a very certain case" for action against ISIS, and "engage Congress, the American people on what exactly we’re going to do here."

[American Patriot]

Local Politicians Weigh in on ISIS Threat, Connections to Minn.


Updated: 09/05/2014 9:14 PM
Created: 09/05/2014 9:11 PM WDIO.com

By: Tom Hauser, KSTP


The growing threat of ISIS has connections to Minnesota. At least two Minnesotans have died while fighting for ISIS, and possibly more have since joined the terrorist group.


On Friday, local lawmakers weighed in on the situation, and some accused the president of failing to deal with the situation. The terror threat is quickly becoming a political issue that could move foreign policy up the list of concerns by voters.


“This is not a red and blue state issue. It’s an issue of the senator supporting bad policies, decisions every step of the way,” Republican Rep. Bob Dettmer said during a news conference Friday criticizing U.S. Sen. Al Franken and President Obama.


“Today we are seeing the consequences of not having a clear strategy when it comes to foreign policy,” Republican Rep. Bruce Anderson added.


Earlier this week, Franken sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding action to prevent the recruiting of terrorists in Minnesota.


“So this has been part of an ongoing communication I’ve had with the FBI,” Franken said.


He tells WDIO's sister station, KSTP, that he’s been working on the issue since he was elected, and he agrees the President needs a strategy to deal with ISIS in Syria.


“This is a changing situation, but we should have a strategy going forward,” Franken said.


Franken’s Republican opponent, Mike McFadden, says Franken needed to speak up sooner.


“I’m very, very concerned that the president doesn’t have a strategy to deal with ISIS. It’s unacceptable,” McFadden said. “Senator Franken has supported President Obama every step of the way.”


In his letter, Franken says he’s “troubled” by the President’s suggestion he doesn’t have a strategy to deal with the terror threat in Syria. He wants the justice department to focus resources on places like Minnesota where there’s active recruiting taking place.

[American Patriot]

Florida politicians mourn loss of Steven Sotloff, demand action against ISIS

• Alex Leary, Times Washington Bureau Chief

Tuesday, September 2, 2014 2:59pm


Florida reaction to the news that ISIS has followed through with threat to kill journalist Steven J. Sotloff, who studied at University of Central Florida:





Sen. Bill Nelson: "Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Steven Sotloff. Let there be no doubt, we must go after ISIS right away because the U.S. is the only one that can put together a coalition to stop this group that’s intent on barbaric cruelty.”


Nelson also said he would file a bill that would give Obama "clear authority" to order airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. “This will ensure there’s no question that the president has the legal authority he needs to use airstrikes in Syria,” Nelson said. “Let there be no doubt, we must go after ISIS right away because the U.S. is the only one that can put together a coalition to stop this group that’s intent on barbaric cruelty.”


Gov. Rick Scott canceled a campaign stop in Naples and asked for a moment of silence, according to the AP's Gary Fineout. The governor then released a statement:


“On behalf of Ann and myself, and on behalf of all the people of Florida, we want to convey our sorrow and our condolences to the entire Sotloff family. We cannot begin to understand their grief. The people who did this are evil. They are not merely wrong, they are not adversaries, they are evil. And evil must be confronted and destroyed. In fact, these immoral animals reject the basic code of human morality that crosses all cultures. This is not a political or international disagreement. It is a case of barbarians choosing to set themselves apart from the rest of humanity. Here is what they need to understand – Steve Sotloff was a Floridian, but more importantly he was an American.

If you attack one American, you are attacking all Americans. Last week President Obama said that his Administration does not at present have a strategy for dealing with ISIS – these immoral evil people. I think I can speak for all Floridians and all Americans when I say that the time for a strategy is now, and part of that strategy needs to include destroying them.”


Charlie Crist: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the Sotloff family today. This brutal murder of an innocent man who sought to document suffering in the world demonstrates the type of evil we confront in this struggle. We will defeat this evil just as we have time and time again throughout our history."


Rep. Patrick Murphy: "My thoughts and prayers are with Steven Sotloff's loved ones as well as those of James Foley during this most difficult and tragic time. Steven and James both dedicated their lives to the democratic principle of a free press and it is in their legacy that we must ensure that democracy continues to win out over terrorism. Such unconscionable acts of terrorism, the killing of innocent civilians, and attacks on democracy cannot go unanswered. The United States must act swiftly with its allies to make sure these atrocities are stopped and those carrying out such heinous crimes are brought to justice."


Sen. Marco Rubio: “Steven Sotloff was a man of enormous courage and decency. Through his journalism, he demonstrated deep personal compassion toward the Middle East and its people. He hoped to shine a light on both the good and the bad of the region – to show the world the dramatic potential of its people as well as the stark forces of evil holding them back. As Steven was a native of Florida, my office has been in contact with his family throughout their ordeal, and today my heart goes out to all who loved him as they make the painful transition from fear to grief.


“Steven’s balanced and earnest approach to journalism was met with love by many in the Middle East, but with brutal disdain by those whose tactics stood in such clear contrast to his own. Through Steven’s execution, ISIL has demonstrated yet again its limitless capacity for cruelty and its unbridled hatred of freedom-loving people everywhere. ISIL continues to establish that its violent grasp for regional control represents a threat to the American people, our allies, and the principles of freedom and human rights that we cherish.


“The horrifying clarity of ISIL’s message toward America should have been met from the beginning with an equally clear opposing message. ISIL is now the best funded terrorist group ever established and has large areas of territory under their control. There is no disease that becomes easier to treat the longer you wait, and as history has shown time and again, it is the same with malignant forces in global affairs. If we do not act now to assist our Iraqi partners and moderate Syrians who oppose ISIL, as well as utilize our own forces to directly target ISIL’s leadership, the result will be more suffering and tragedy for our people."


Rep. Alcee Hastings: “I am truly saddened and alarmed by reports of Steven Sotloff’s ruthless beheading by militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a video posted on the internet. Just two weeks following the tragic execution of fellow American journalist James Foley, it is clear that ISIS presents a direct threat to the lives of innocent Americans, as well as peace and stability in the region. As our nation’s government and intelligence community work diligently to authenticate the video, my thoughts and prayers go out to Steven’s family during this most difficult time. The United States will not tolerate these heinous acts on its citizens.”

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[American Patriot]

Not sure how many paid attention to the release of the five terrorists to get Berghdal back... but this was one of them. Just sayin':

Meet the Terrorist Leader of ISIS Released Under President Obama Who is Now Rampaging Across Iraq

By Caroline Schaeffer 3 months ago

The rise of the terrorist group ISIS in Mosul, Tikrit, and other villages in Iraq has overwhelmed the country’s government and military.



Burning down villages, executing civilians and soldiers, they have created a reign of terror that U.S. Armed Forces fought and died to end. Iraq veterans have begun to question whether their sacrifices were worth the cause.


And new information about the brutal leader of ISIS is not bound to make the U.S. government’s actions regarding Iraq look any better: from 2005 until 2009, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was in U.S. custody at our now-closed Camp Bucca near Umm Qasr in Iraq, Examiner reports.


In 2003, following the initial invasion into Iraq, some reports suggest Baghdadi was drawn into the emerging al Qaeda forces and, quickly rising through the terrorism network, became known for the atrocities he and his followers committed. Via Examiner:

There, presiding over his own sharia court, he gained a reputation for brutality, publicly executing those suspected of aiding the US-led coalition forces – the same brutality that has become familiar to those living in Syria under his group’s control.

During his rise to power in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq in 2010 – and later of Isis – he murdered prominent Sunnis as well as Shia civilians in bombings.

He was released by President Obama from the Iraqi prison in 2009, and since then he’s had time to form a plan and collect and train an army of terrorists – an estimated 7,000 men.


Late last year Baghdadi announced that he was creating a new group to be merged with a rival al Qaeda affiliate, active in Syria.


The President and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in their short-sighted attempts to make good on campaign promises, have unleashed a monster unto the people of Iraq who worked so hard to help the Americans free their nation. Baghdadi is not only a threat to Iraqis, but also to our country and our way of life.

[American Patriot]

Right... Let's brag about it before we do it, huh?

Jihadi John to be unmasked 'within days': Identity of masked British executioner to be revealed as FBI prepares to arrest 12 of his UK associates

• British and American authorities say they know identity of hostage killer
• FBI team flown into Britain last month is now closing in on 12 suspects in UK
• Believed to have provided money, contacts and helped him travel to Syria
• Suspects include several from West Midlands already known to services

By Amanda Williams for MailOnline
Published: 00:08 EST, 8 September 2014 | Updated: 08:27 EST, 8 September 2014

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Anti-terror police are set to arrest up to 12 British associates of Islamic State executioner Jihadi John, it has been reported.
British and American authorities say they know the identity of the hostage killer - and are set to reveal it within days.
The executioner is one of four British jihadis known as the 'Beatles' holding hostages in Syria.

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British and American authorities say they know the identity of the hostage killer 'Jihadi John' - and are set to reveal it within days. They are now in a race against time to save the life of British hostage David Haines



Sources told the Mirror that anti-terror experts from the UK and U.S. know the identity of three of them and are tracking down the group.

An FBI team flown into Britian last month is now closing in on 12 suspects in the UK, who are believed to have provided money, contacts and helped Jihadi John travel to Syria.
An American source told the paper the 'hardened terrorists' include several from the West Midlands who are already known to UK security services.


More...

• How British female jihadis are running Islamic State's religious police force that punishes women for 'un-Islamic' behaviour
• 'My son's been slaughtered': Mother's agony as she learns of Lebanese soldier son's beheading by IS militants on Twitter after he tried to escape captivity
• The Burn ISIS Flag Challenge: Outraged Muslims flood web with their version of the Ice Bucket Challenge in protest against Islamic State barbarism

They said : 'We are 99.9% certain now as to who ‘John’ is but investigators have had to tread softly in charting and approaching his wider network in the UK.
'Familiar names of what can only be described as hardened extremists with a jihadi background have cropped up in this investigation.'
Handle Jihadi John speaks in Sotloff and Foley beheading videos (audio)







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American journalist James Foley was the first to be beheaded by the masked executioner. He is one of four British jihadis holding hostages in Syria known as the 'Beatles'




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Gruesome footage of the execution of fellow American hostage Steven Sotloff was released last week


The source said the identity of the executioners would most likely be revealed officially within the coming days.
Gruesome footage showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley was released last month by the Islamic State, followed by a video of the execution of fellow American hostage Steven Sotloff last week.

Authorities are now in a race against time to save the life of British hostage, aid worker David Haines, who the masked jihadi has revealed is next for execution.

It comes after it was reported that father-of-two Mr Haines has been struggling to hold down food and suffering from acute gastric and other health problems in his cramped captivity.

The disclosure that Haines, 44, has been suffering physical difficulties alongside inevitable mental turmoil must have added to the distress of his wife Dragana, who lives in Croatia with their four-year-old daughter, and family in Scotland during their agonising wait for news.
A security source familiar with the cases described the hostages’ internment as a ‘living hell’.

Mr Haines, originally from Perth in Scotland, has been badly tortured, especially during the first six months after his abduction in March last year at a refugee camp in northern Syria.

IS videos show British and US captives dressed in orange jumpsuits, a clear reference to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The most recent video showed a gaunt Haines held by the collar as a black-clad, English extremist warned Britain to abandon ‘this evil alliance of America’.

Read more:

• ISIS: Elite FBI team set to swoop on Jihadi John's 12 British helpers

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And this....

Thus far uncomfirmed. However, multiple sources are reporting that US airstrikes have killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. Bookmark for updates.

Posted on September 8, 2014 by thomas madison

Unverified photo of allegedly deceased ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
By Abdelhak Mamoun


(IraqiNews.com) Thousands of social media users are distributing an unverified photo which claims to show the body of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after he was purportedly killed by US air strikes after three senior members of ISIS, including an aide to al-Baghdadi were also killed by US air strikes. The death of the three senior members and aide to al-Baghdadi were confirmed by a senior Iraqi security official when interviewed by NBC News on Thursday.


The strike on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul killed Abu Hajar Al-Sufi, an aide to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as an explosives operative and the military leader of nearby Tal Afar, the source said on condition of anonymity. Al Arabiya cited the Iraqi Defense Ministry saying Baghdadi’s aide had been killed.


Pentagon Spokesman Col. Steve Warren could not confirm the deaths and said ISIS leaders had not been targeted. But he added that if ISIS leaders were embedded “inside troop formations they are likely to be killed.” The U.S. has been carrying out airstrikes across north Iraq after the brutal terrorists of ISIS gained ground in a murderous sweep in June.


A number of news outlets and websites have published the unverified photo and news about the death of al-Baghdadi by US airstrikes. IraqiNews.com has been unable to verify the photo and claim that al-Baghdadi was killed.
Source: http://defence.pk/threads/urgent-isi...#ixzz3ChNRxOL7