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White House confirms that Islamic State is holding former Army Ranger hostage

Oct 4, 2014 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

PeterKassigThey will keep on beheading until they are stopped. They will keep on advancing until they are stopped. They will keep on attracting Muslims to wage jihad alongside them until they are stopped. But does anyone have the will to stop them?

“White House Confirms ISIS Is Holding A Former US Army Ranger Hostage,” by Brett LoGiurato, Business Insider, October 4, 2014 (thanks to Steve):

The White House confirmed late Friday that the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State is holding former US Army Ranger Peter Kassig hostage.

The group, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL, threatened Kassig at the end of a video purporting to show the execution of British aid worker Alan Henning.

“We can confirm that U.S. citizen Peter Kassig is being held by ISIL,” said Caitlin Hayden, a spokesman for the White House’s national security council.

“At this point we have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the video released earlier today. We will continue to use every tool at our disposal — military, diplomatic, law enforcement and intelligence — to try to bring Peter home to his family.”…

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  1. Buraq says

    Oct 4, 2014 at 12:17 pm

    These thugs won’t stop until there are ‘boots on the ground’. However, they don’t have to be regular US troops. Why not employ mercenaries to fight? Pay experienced soldiers from all round the world to fight ISIS on the ground, co-ordinating their movements with superior air power. Call them ‘The Anti-Caliphate Freedom Fighters’ – the ACCF!

    Attractive basic salary with bonuses paid for the number of clowns killed!

    • jihad3tracker says

      Oct 4, 2014 at 12:20 pm

      Excellent idea, Buraq — but it makes too much sense to actually be done.

    • pumbar says

      Oct 5, 2014 at 12:19 am

      I wonder if I should start referring to our air force as, “boots in the air”?

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Oct 4, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    And, of course, no one knows how many potential victims there are . . . five — fifteen — fifty — five hundred ?

    ISIS is certainly rounding up every person it can, as fast as it can, concealing them out of coalition air strikes.

    Each beheading represents a victory for Islam’s VERY bloodthirsty “god”. The 7th Century meets the 21st — and Muhammad’s legacy appears to have gotten the West by its balls.

    Thanks to the privilege-guilt mindset that “all religions deserve equal respect”, and idiocy of refusal to acknowledge the truth even when confronted by evidence such as these events.

    • Salah says

      Oct 4, 2014 at 12:38 pm

      ‘Each beheading represents a victory for Islam’s VERY bloodthirsty “god”.’

      It surely appears to be a victory, but, on the long run, it’s a DEFEAT. It’s the true face of Islam unveiling itself to the whole world.
      Sooner or later the most stupid people on earth (i.e. the leftists) will have to acknowledge that Islam is Pure Evil. Muslims themselves are starting to ask tough questions about their faith. And THAT is good…but the price is high!

      Raymond Ibrahim: Is the Islamic State a Good Thing?
      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/raymond-ibrahim-is-the-islamic-state-a-good-thing

      • jihad3tracker says

        Oct 4, 2014 at 1:54 pm

        Yes, Salah, agreed — a defeat in the long run. The way I have expressed that in a couple of prior posts : ISIS seriously f*cked up the stealth jihad plans of CAIR and its fellow slime hucksters.

        My emphasis in remarks you replied to should have been more clearly upon the unknown number of eventual victims — will there be several a week soon, taken from a roundup in territory ISIS controls ? Charity workers alone could be a source of dozens possibly killed.

  3. PRCS says

    Oct 4, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    According to his parents, Kassig converted to Islam while in captivity.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29492184

    “In a written statement accompanying their video, they add: “As Muslims around the world, including our son Abdul-Rahman Kassig, celebrate Eid al-Adha, the faith and sacrifice of Ibrahim, and the mercy of Allah, we appeal to those holding our son to show the same mercy and set him free.””

  4. salamander says

    Oct 4, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    “will you understand? the summoner never stops” etc etc Sad to see the families of these hostages pleading in vain for the lives of their loved ones. Our politicians flapping their lips , big talk of not resting etc etc. The time has come for gloves off, full scale engagement and fuck the rules of engagement, these scum have forfeited any rights

    • jihad3tracker says

      Oct 4, 2014 at 4:30 pm

      Hello salamander —

      Yes, that is a relevant “classic” observation — from when the Bani Qurayza’s hundreds of male captives were taken away for an Allah-pleasin’, desert style, too-bad-you-lost, neck shortening at the hands & swords of Muhammad’s fellow sociopaths.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 8:07 am

    Mr Spencer wrote, above: “They will keep on beheading until they are stopped. They will keep on advancing until they are stopped. They will keep on attracting Muslims to wage jihad alongside them until they are stopped.
    ” But does anyone have the will to stop them?”

    I can think of three with the *will*. They just don’t have the power… YET. But if enough people in their respective countries get behind them, get with them, campaigning, financing, *voting*, and helping with raising public awareness, they *might*.

    Geert Wilders has the will, but not the power…yet.

    Paul Weston has the will, but not the power…yet.

    Lt Col (Ret) Allen West has the will, but not the power…yet.

    The first and the last of the three I have named, have some political experience. Wilders heads up a party, with people sitting in the Dutch parliament. I think he’s ahead of the other two.

    Weston and West have a ways to go, yet; but if I were British, or American, I’d be getting alongside them, getting behind them, doing everything I could to help them get to the point where they achieve high office and are in a position to *act*.

    One of *the* duties of any Islamosavvy citizen, in any infidel land, if he or she does not feel personally called – or driven – to seek office themselves, is to keep on looking about for actual or aspiring politicians – at *any* level, from local, to national – who show signs of being aware of the meaning and menace of Islam, or of being educable on the subject, and to get behind such people and PUSH. Educate, encourage, support, educate some more.

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