Reality check: “Tuesday’s horrific videotaped beheading of American photojournalist James Foley was packaged with a new Islamic State posting on social media threatening the United States: ‘We will drown all of you in blood.'”
“Americans brace for new wave of Islamic State terror,” by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times, August 20, 2014:
The vicious Islamic State group now is vowing to broaden its war campaign to include killing Americans wherever and whenever it can.
Tuesday’s horrific videotaped beheading of American photojournalist James Foley was packaged with a new Islamic State posting on social media threatening the United States: “We will drown all of you in blood.”
A visibly angered President Obama gave a stern reply Wednesday afternoon, saying in a televised address that the U.S. and its allies will work together to “extract this cancer” that is the Islamic State.
“ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents,” Mr. Obama said. “No just God would stand for what they did yesterday, and for what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings.”
Just hours after Mr. Obama spoke, the White House revealed that the president had authorized a secret military mission this summer to a site in Syria in a bid to free Mr. Foley and other Americans held by the terrorist group, but the hostages were not there.
“The U.S. government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the president authorized the Department of Defense to move aggressively to recover our citizens,” said Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. “Unfortunately, that mission was not successful because the hostages were not present.”
The White House did not reveal exactly when or where in Syria the mission took place. Citing administration sources, The Associated Press reported that a “number of militants” were killed in the operation and one American sustained a minor injury.
The president also offered his condolences via telephone to Mr. Foley’s parents, who also praised their son for his life’s work.
Speaking to reporters in front of their New Hampshire home, John and Diane Foley noted his dedication in documenting Syria’s conflict and the plight of ordinary Syrians. “We believe he was a martyr for freedom,” John Foley said.
In the video, the terrorist group said it was beheading James Foley in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against its positions in northern Iraq.
The White House said earlier this month that the Islamic State is not a threat to Americans — a position deemed “utter hogwash” by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, which monitors Islamic extremism.
“The White House says that the U.S. is not at war with the Islamic State,” Mr. Spencer said. “But the Islamic State certainly is at war with the U.S.”
A U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, “I would tell you ISIL has had a longstanding, overt interest in killing Americans.”
Mr. Spencer said there is ample evidence that the terrorist group — which controls large portions of Iraq and Syria and has committed mass executions — is gearing up for attacks against the U.S.
The U.S. government believes some Americans have joined the Islamic State and, programmed to conduct suicide bombings, will pose risks upon their return.
Britain says hundreds of its nationals have joined the militants and have committed some of its most brutal killings. British authorities said Wednesday that they suspect the black-clad executioner in Tuesday’s beheading video is a Briton.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the man had not been identified, but “from what we have seen it looks increasingly likely that is a British citizen.”
Germany and France say about 1,300 of their nationals have joined jihadist groups, including the Islamic State, The Associated Press reported.
In the U.S., the Islamic State flag has appeared sporadically as the terrorist group’s propaganda arm tries to recruit young killers.
“They have said they are going to go after Americans,” Mr. Spencer said. “They have said American civilians are all legitimate targets. It seems to be absolutely certain they will be trying to kill as many Americans as possible in the United States as well as elsewhere.”…
Beagle says
Quote:
The U.S. government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the president authorized the Department of Defense to move aggressively to recover our citizens,” said Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. “Unfortunately, that mission was not successful because the hostages were not present.”
The White House did not reveal exactly when or where in Syria the mission took place. Citing administration sources, The Associated Press reported that a “number of militants” were killed in the operation and one American sustained a minor injury.
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Sounds to me like someone fed our government bad intelligence on purpose and set a trap. But for our special operators being the best gunslingers on earth this would have been a disaster of epic proportions.
Clearly this was a political release of information by the White House, an act criminal for anyone else, to keep the blame off Obama for what happened to Foley. Operational security and, in the case of Bin Laden, intelligence be damned is this administration’s motto.
mawskrat says
when will a moderate Muslim stand in front of these animals whilst they are killing and say
“not in Allah’s name….. so take me instead”
umbra says
cowards do not stand up to thugs.
yohanan says
The video of Foley’s beheading was deleted by youtube, google, twitter. Perhaps because of the gruesome content, to prevent public unrest and in sensitivity for victim’s famly. But islamophobia and to prevent bad image for Islam are invalid reasons for censoring it .
That terrifying video is more identifiable for many than other daily images of genocide perpetrated in the name of a regressive, fundamentalist, militant Islam..
vlparker says
And they will, too, because the idiots in charge will not take this seriously.
Bro. Nick says
My personal opinion – about ‘the 12th of never’ – for that would be ‘Islamaphobia’ and a ‘hate crime’.
Against the JEWS and CHRISTians – anyday now – because we are NOT ‘tolerant’ – and actually believe exactly what “the word of the LORD”, The Holy Bible calls “sin”
– and that is not ‘Politically Correct’.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
(2 Tim 3:12-13 – KJV)
Jay Boo says
Please allow me to translate what Bro. Nick just said.
MUHAMMAD IS DOG SHIT
(Paraphrased from Proverbs … 6:16 KJV)
All floor kissing Muslims should bow their heads in shame at the disgrace they bring upon themselves just by saying they are Muslim and pretending that Islam is a religion.
Bro. Nick says
@ Jay Boo – What I wrote needed nothing added. – Bro. Nick
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You chose to ‘paraphrase’ “the word” of the LIVING GOD:
“For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:”
(Proverbs 1:29 – KJV)
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
(Revelation 22:18-19 – KJV)
Beagle says
“visibly angered President Obama”
During the long days of Summer he might otherwise have squeezed in 54 holes.
clit diddler says
you have to go over the op leaders. in their ase, abu bagdadhi. take out the leaders which ruins their spirit
umbra says
ali baba is probably not the operational (militarily) brains behind isis. Eliminate isis military staff – planning, logistics and training – could diminished its combat capability to a point where iraqi, kurds, syrian plus other rebel forces could tear it apart completely.
Jack Hamer says
Not close enough.
Ashley says
“The White House said earlier this month that the Islamic State is not a threat to Americans — a position deemed “utter hogwash” by Robert Spencer…”
Excellent, Robert! Knowing how Muslims feel about all things pork, “hogwash” trumps “bullshit.”
Champ says
In no way do I support islam and/or any of their islamic *groups*, like IS, but at least IS is more forthcoming about their evil intentions–they’re more honest. Unlike organizations like CAIR, et al, who lie and would have us believe that islam is a “religion of peace” …which of course it is NOT!
Jeez, islam is WHOLLY EVIL!
Ashley says
Meanwhile…http://www.mvtimes.com/2014/08/20/brief-work-break-president-obama-resumes-vacation/
dumbledoresarmy says
always this obsession with blood, blood, blood.
Both evil, and sick.
In “Cairo to Damascus” (1951) journalist John Roy Carlson encountered a Muslim jihadist who wanted to be photographed in the act of 1/ slaughtering a Jew with a knife and 2/ drinking the warm blood straight from the body.
dumbledoresarmy says
PS back then, in 1951, there was no such thing as mobile phones, or the internet, or youtube, or twitter, etc.
But there were cameras.
And after a Muslim attack on a party of Jewish medicos – the Jews were slaughtered – Carlson (undercover, under a fake identity, “embedded” with a party of jihadis on the Arab Muslim side of Jerusalem) noticed that among the Muslims in Jerusalem photographs were being passed around from hand to hand, viewed with the avidity and unhealthy enjoyment. The subject? – the stripped-naked – and probably obscenely mutilated, though Carlson is writing in 1951 and does not mention such things – bodies of the dead Jews.
Those photos were, I think, the 1948 equivalent of today ‘s beheading videos.
Islamic death porn.
Bro. Nick says
My response of August 21, 2014 at 5:18 pm
‘ – for that would be ‘Islamaphobia’ and a ‘hate crime’’ – was made in anger
and it was absolutely WRONG – WRONG – WRONG
for me to join, or incite in any way the increasingly vile, wicked and evil
MOB MENTALITY against ALL OF THE FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM
Bro. Nick