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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
1. Yes, I think we should convene a immediate peace conference with isis
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:03 PM
Oct 2014

and sit down at the table with them, mediated of course, by some clueless old man appointed by the UN.

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I am kidding.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
7. And the alleged perpetrator is also a British guy.
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:18 PM
Oct 2014

It's strange how our allies provide our enemies.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
4. We should discourage others from watching these, it feeds into what ISIS wants us to do.
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:04 PM
Oct 2014

They should be ignored. Recognized as evil, but ignored.

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
5. They are getting less attention and they
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:12 PM
Oct 2014

run together. These videos should absolutely be ignored. In the pre-internet days, this would not be a means of terror. Not watching, opening or even showing stills should be our approach.

With number 5,6,7 they lose some if the shock in the media as well. ISIS just looks like they are trying too hard to be shocking. We get, you are bad guys, you choose a bloody way to kill hostages.

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
8. ISIS wouldn't exist if that idiot never invaded Iraq
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:18 PM
Oct 2014

The amount of damage he did to the Middle East is incalculable.

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
10. Horrific clip appears to show ISIS thugs beheading British hostage Alan Henning
Fri Oct 3, 2014, 05:27 PM
Oct 2014

Henning, 47, a former taxi driver, was kidnapped in December while working in aid convoy crossing into Syria from Turkey. It's fourth ISIS video showing savage death of a Western hostage

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-appears-show-beheading-brit-alan-henning-article-1.1962641


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Peter Kassig, former U.S. soldier and current aid worker, threatened as next ISIS victim

ISIS has threatened to execute former U.S. soldier Peter Kassig, who has given most of his young life to others, next in the gruesome video showing the beheading of British citizen Alan Henning.

A former U.S. Army Ranger from Indianapolis who was deployed to Iraq in 2007, Kassig went to help Syrian refugees in a Lebanese hospital and, in the spirit of humanitarianism shared by his fellow Islamic State captives, started his own aid group.

The group, called Special Emergency Response and Assistance, supplied Syrian refugees with blankets, cooking stoves, propane fuel tanks and other necessities, according to a 2013 Time article about the Indiana native.

The 26-year-old said he was inspired and touched by the warm reaction of Syrian locals who received the assistance.

“I did not meet a single man woman or child who could not muster a smile and a message of strength and hope that was nothing short of earth-shatteringly humbling,” he said then.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/peter-kassig-u-s-soldier-current-aid-worker-threatened-isis-victim-article-1.1962652

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