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BEIRUT - The Islamic State group released a graphic video on Sunday in which a black-clad militant claimed to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, who was captured last year.
The militant was standing over a severed head, but it was not immediately possible to confirm that it was Kassig, 26, who was pictured in the video. U.S. officials said they were working to determine the video's authenticity and the Kassig family said it was awaiting the outcome of the investigation. The video, which was posted on websites used by the group in the past, appeared to be the latest in a series of blood-soaked messages to the U.S. warning of further brutality if it does not abandon its air campaign in Iraq and Syria. "This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen, of your country; Peter who fought against the Muslims in Iraq, while serving as a soldier," the militant says near the end of the nearly 16-minute video. He speaks in an audible British accent despite his voice being distorted to make it more difficult to identify him. The video identifies the militant's location as Dabiq, a small town in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, near the Turkish border. The video also shows what appears to be the mass beheading of several Syrian soldiers captured by the group. The militants warn that U.S. soldiers will meet a similar fate. "We say to you, Obama...you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago," the militant said. "Here you are: you have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies," he said, apparently referring to Western-backed Syrian rebels, Kurdish fighters and the Iraqi military. "Here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq, eagerly waiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive." Source: CBN News
Author: Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell JERUSALEM, Israel -- As stories of new beheadings of Christian children in Iraq come to light, many wonder - who will speak out against it? Now Jews and Christians are banding together to fight growing persecution of Christians in Islamic countries. "When hundreds of thousands of Christians - men, women and children - are killed, this isn't a war, this is genocide. And Jews know what happens when the world is silent to genocide," World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder told participants at the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem's annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration in Jerusalem. Lauder advocates for Jewish people around the world. Now he's teaming up with the ICEJ and Empowered21 to fight Christian persecution. Source: The Daily Caller
Author: Eric Owens In the gem of a video below, Campus Reform drops by the campus of Harvard University to ask people on campus: “What is a greater threat: America or ISIS?” The interviewees — at least the ultra-pretentious, ultra-annoying ones chosen for the clip — definitely did not disappoint. The dude in the hipster Cholo flannel who politely blows smoke from his roll-your-own cigarette beside the interviewer’s face is The Daily Caller’s favorite. For sure. However, the dude double-fisted with coffees is great. And the woman who ebulliently declares that she just learned that the United States has a large defense-spending budget is utterly fantastic. “As a western civilization, we’re to blame for a lot of the problems that we’re facing now,” one person said. “I don’t think anyone would argue that we didn’t create the problem of ISIS ourselves.” Source: Red flag News
(by Norvell Rose, WCJ) -- After two years attending the same Oklahoma City mosque where accused beheader Alton Nolen worshipped, this man claims that he became convinced — convinced that the “religion of peace” actually promotes radical jihad. Calling himself “Noor,” the man went on “The Kelly File” to describe what he learned about the non-public teachings that may well have led to the radicalization of the beheading suspect in the brutal murder of a woman at a Moore, OK food processing facility. An Army intelligence bulletin is warning U.S. military personnel to be vigilant after Islamic State militants called on supporters to scour social media for addresses of their family members – and to “show up [at their homes] and slaughter them."
The assessment, obtained by Fox News, came from the Army Threat Integration Center which issues early warnings of criminal and terrorist threats to Army posts worldwide. The advisory warns military personnel and their families about the Islamic State, or ISIS, calling on supporters to target their homes. Iraq's intelligence operation has uncovered a plot for an attack on subway systems in the United States and Paris, the country's prime minister said Thursday. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he was told of the plot by Baghdad, and that it was the work of foreign fighters of the Islamic State group in Iraq. Al-Abadi's assertion could not be independently confirmed. Staff Writer, Al Arabiya News The al-Qaeda-Inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ordered all girls and women between the ages of 11 and 46 in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said on Thursday. “It is a fatwa (or religious edict) of ISIS, we learnt this this morning,” said Jacqueline Badcock, the number two U.N. official in Iraq. The “fatwa” would potentially affect 4 million women and girls, Badcock told reporters in Geneva by videolink from Arbil. Source:The Daily Mail lBy FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
The radical Islamist movement is gaining ground in Germany with immigrants attempting to apply their traditions and laws to their new home. The country's government however is trying to cope the spreading amount of extremist Islamic sentiment. RT's Peter Oliver reports.
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