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Al-Qaeda kills U.S. hostage during failed rescue attempt by U.S., Yemeni forces

Dec 6, 2014 9:23 am By Robert Spencer

luke-somersKidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or enslaving them, as well as killing them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192.

“American hostage killed by al Qaeda in failed rescue attempt,” Reuters, December 6, 2014:

A U.S. journalist and a South African teacher held by al Qaeda militants in Yemen were killed during a rescue attempt by U.S. and Yemeni forces, senior officials said on Saturday.

U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said al Qaeda militants killed Luke Somers, 33, and another hostage during the rescue operation….

Relief group Gift of the Givers said teacher Pierre Korkie was also killed.“We received with sadness the news that Pierre was killed in an attempt by American Special Forces, in the early hours of this morning, to free hostages in Yemen,” it said in a statement on its website.

Yemen’s Defence Ministry had earlier said that a military operation had succeeded in freeing a U.S. hostage as well as killing 10 members of the al Qaeda group holding him.

The operation involved an air strike followed by a raid by U.S. and Yemeni forces, a local security official said. It took place in the Wadi Abdan Al Daqqar region of Shabwa Province in southern Yemen and targeted an al Qaeda group headed by Mubarak al-Harad.

Hagel said the attempt to free the captives was justified. “There were compelling reasons to believe Mr. Somers’ life was in imminent danger,” Hagel said in Kabul.

On Thursday, the United States said it had made a failed attempt last month to rescue Somers who was kidnapped in Sanaa in September 2013.

A video posted by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Wednesday purported to show Somers and threatened to kill him if unspecified demands were not met….

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 9:37 am

    Well, there goes Al Qeda’s chance to release a beheading video and take back some ot the Islamic State’s thunder in the jihad stakes. Al Qeda just hasn’t been able to get it together since head cockroach Osama Bin Laden was exterminated.

  2. KrazyKafir says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 10:00 am

    US, and Yemeni forces? What’s wrong with this picture? Oh, yeah, Hagel.

  3. mortimer says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 10:15 am

    Islamic ethics are opportunistic, rather than moral. The emir is to take the most ‘advantageous’ choice, rather then the ‘right’ moral choice.

    In the end, there are no ethics in Islam that cannot be overthrown by the pursuit of the END…conquest.

    In Islam, there are no ethics, because the end (conquest) justifies the means in all jihad.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 10:25 am

    NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Are you not concerned that they are using JOURNALISTS as hostages?

    Do you not lose any sympathy for these barbarians? Are you not filled with rage at this injustice? Are you journalists numb?

  5. epistemology says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 11:18 am

    ISIS is al-Qaeda’s great rival and they’ve beheaded so many hostages. The al-Qaeda clowns don’t want to fall behind, that’s bad for the reputation. You have to understand other people compete in sports, in tennis, football, swimming and what have you. But muzzies compete in killing infidels, that’s their way of life. If you don’t understand that guys you lack cultural awareness. A bit more sensitivity, please.

    Islam is scum and I hope one day the world will understand.

  6. Libyan Jihad says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Burn in hell, crusader pig.

    • Tradewinds says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 2:34 pm

      Huh? Check it out – a member of the “religion of peace!” Let me tell you something Muslim “Libyan Jihad” – YOU are the one who will be burning in hell you rotten Mohammedan along with your rotten warlord fake prophet Mo! Enjoy the flames you murderous a-hole.

      BRING BACK THE CRUSADES! THE MURDEROUS MUSLIMS HAVE TO BE STOPPED AGAIN.

      As for pigs – they are so far superior to you Muslim it’s not funny. Bravo Pork! Muslims/Islam = camel poo.

      Islam, a plague on the world for 1400 years.

      • Libyan Jihad says

        Dec 6, 2014 at 4:04 pm

        You worship a cross, while it’s us who truly worship God, if the dead journalist could speak he would tell you that no pig like him can step inside Muslim lands and live to tell about it, while Muslims are all over Europe, we are winning so go kiss your crosses and hug your dogs, they won’t save you.

        • Tradewinds says

          Dec 6, 2014 at 4:48 pm

          No, we worship God, who is Jesus. You worship an Arabian pagan moon deity that doesn’t exist. Allah is warlord Muhammad, a mass-murderer and pedophile. You don’t know God from a hole in the ground.

          As for dogs, they are far, far, superior to you. Dogs are man’s best friend – Muslims/Islam are man’s worst enemy. You people are sick, you need help. Islam is a contagious disease like Ebola. Except worse than Ebola. And, you won’t win – just like the Nazis didn’t win. Evil doesn’t triumph in the end and you are evil.

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Dec 6, 2014 at 5:50 pm

          Anyone who has taken the time to learn anything about Christianity should know that Christians do not worship the cross. The cross is merely a symbol of Christ’s death and resurrection and the resultant reconciliation between God and mankind. I understand that the crescent moon and a star symbolize Islam. I do not take this literally to mean that Muslims worship the moon and a star. Most of the people posting here have taken the time to learn about Islam. Why don’t you do the same and learn something about Christianity? There is really no excuse for you to be so ignorant on the subject if you have access to the internet …. which you must have or you wouldn’t be able to post here. So you are either a fool or a liar, Libyan Jihad …. or, more likely, both. Please try to educate yourself and speak the truth.

        • SpiritOf1683 says

          Dec 6, 2014 at 6:47 pm

          We worship kicking evil parasites like yourself out of the West.

        • Mo says

          Dec 6, 2014 at 8:42 pm

          @ Libyan Jihad

          “You worship a cross, while it’s us who truly worship God,”

          I don’t know who “you” are, but Christians worship CHRIST, to whom one day you will one day bow, whether willingly or unwillingly.

          You worship the demon god Allah – actually Satan.

          You WILL bow to that Christ that you so hate one day. Know that.

          I suggest you repent while you still have time and while Christ’s mercy still holds out. Judgment is coming.

        • Vluk says

          Dec 7, 2014 at 4:41 am

          The fact that muslims really do believe that the Christians worship a cross shows just how stupid and under developed they are. Not to mention that they even believe that Mary is the third person in the Christian trinity. This shows how little they actual know about the faith they are attacking.
          And as for choosing to have either a muslim as a friend or a dog, I would choose a dog any and every time.

        • Cicero says

          Dec 7, 2014 at 7:40 am

          My goodness the jihadis have cottoned on to this site and we now se their strategy. To send their most literate and articulate fighters to the jihad watch site . They do this in order to bait and distract the anti jihad users of this site. When we respond directly to their taunts calling them evil and saying that our god is better than their god , we fall into their trap and the. The standard of debate will deteriorate on this anti-jihad site
          People who are casually visiting this site in search of knowledge about the religion of peace will be discourage by what they read here ifwe proceed to engage In squabbling with the Islamic sympathisers and their allies

        • Tradewinds says

          Dec 7, 2014 at 7:54 am

          Don’t agree. We can reply back to the evil murderers as we see fit. If you don’t want to, fine.

        • Ken says

          Dec 8, 2014 at 12:17 pm

          Libyan Jihad,

          The following is a very condensed account of the Christian faith. I’m willing to share more information with you if you would like, just let me know.

          In the beginning God created the heavens, the Earth and all that is within them. However the sixth day was different from the rest. On the sixth day he created man (Adam). God later created woman from man’s rib and gave her to him for a wife.

          When God laid out the land he made a special parcel of land and called it the land of pleasure (Eden) because it was his good pleasure to do so. Within this land of pleasure he planted a garden for himself and it was good. Many fruit bearing trees were there in God’s garden. Among them were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (conscience).

          God placed man in the garden and told him you will care for my garden for me. God also gave man permission to eat freely of all fruits growing in the garden except one. God told man not to eat the fruit from the tree of conscience or he would die that very day, a day being one thousand years.

          Satan that old dragon met woman in God’s garden thinking to do harm to the man and woman. He planted the seeds of doubt in woman’s mind asking the question “did God really say?” and again making a false accusation against God implying that God only wanted to keep man and woman from being like God, to know good and evil. It was a dastardly attack on God’s newest creation, one whom God called son.

          It worked she took the bait (fruit) and also gave some to her husband. Instantly they knew they were naked and attempted to cover their shame. They now had the ability to judge and would from hereafter be held accountable for their actions. Man and woman now possessed a conscience and all their offspring would also inherit this same conscience. Adam and Eve had personal fellowship with God and had faith in him, Amen? Yet Adam and Eve disbelieved God and disobeyed, condemning all men by one faithless act. The curse of death rested on them and indeed the debt must be paid. A careful study reveals that indeed no man ever lived to be one thousand years old. The only exceptions are Enoch and Elijah which did not die but were translated or changed while yet in their earthly bodies but nonetheless never attained the age of one thousand years old.

          God foretold to man, woman and Satan the results of this trilogy of sin. He foretold of the coming of Christ who would liberate man and woman from their guilt and bondage of sin and the throwing down of Satan. God had another plan a glorious plan. He planned to make man and woman new creatures. He planned to put to death the earthly body and raise them up into a new and eternal spiritual body. Indeed God planned to make man and woman like God, to have his very nature and to become his heirs. To rule as princes and princesses of the great king after putting off this earthly body and putting on the new glorified bodies.

          Man and woman without Christ are simply worms (caterpillars) but if Christ has come to do his liberating work in our individual lives we go into a transformation stage. We begin a metamorphosis into the greatest creature which God has created. We become sons of the one true God. He has provided for the forgiveness of sins past freeing us from our guilt and cleansing our conscience. He has destroyed our old and sinful nature freeing us from the bondage of sin. He has given us a new nature, his own very nature to make us truly his sons and daughters. We are becoming like our father, just like his only fathered son Jesus Christ.

    • epistemology says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      I’m not a crusader, I’m a Jew, a proud Zionist. Israel will always prevail. We’ve got our inventions and we’ll discover a lot more, when our oil riches will have gone. You’ll go back to your tents, but we’ll prosper, bloody muzzie.

    • Mo says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 8:40 pm

      @ Libyan Jihad says

      “Burn in hell, crusader pig.”

      THANK YOU for demonstrating to the true face of Islam!

      Spoken like a true follower of the warlord, child rapist Mohammad.

  7. dumbledoresarmy says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    If Libyan Jihad really is a mohammedan mobster rather than an infidel troll who is trying to yank chains and stir up sh*t by *pretending* to be a mohammedan mobster, then let notice be served on him that Christians **do not** worship the cross.

    The cross is empty…and so is the tomb where the Crucified One was laid after His death.

    We Christians worship Yeshua the Messiah, whom we confess to be the Divine Word Incarnate, the Son of the Living God, who was crucified, dead and buried BUT who on the third day was raised to life eternal and sits at the right hand of God the Father in glory. THAT is what Christianity is about. The cross is a sign; it reminds us that the Lamb of God offered himself on a cross to take away the sin of the world; to break the power of death by going into it and undoing it.

    The Mohammedan Mob, of course, HATES the Cross and spits in the face of Yeshua of Nazareth, because the Mohammedan Mob worships and glorifies Death, Murder, Tyranny, Cruelty, Slavery, Rape and Robbery, and cannot even begin to comprehend the idea of divine love, humility and self-offering.

  8. voegelinian says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    From the story:

    “Relief group Gift of the Givers said teacher Pierre Korkie was also killed….”

    I looked up that relief group; on their website (which claims that their international relief efforts are purely neutral politically) we see:

    “Quick Links

    Yemen
    Gaza: A People in Anguish
    Kya Sands Fire
    Book Launch – A Mercy to All
    Diary of Events 2014
    Hunger Crisis in Somalia 2014
    Syria Humanitarian Crisis”

    etc.

    Pierre Korkie’s abduction was part of a larger abduction of several other international hostages, including
    No doubt the other hostages, including the American journalist Luke Sommers, were in the region to “help” poor Muslims. Once again, for the umpteenth time, as with the beheading victims of ISIS, we have starry-eyed neo-Wilsonian Western do-gooders meddling in Muslim lands to “help” Muslims, then getting horribly bit in the ass. Pierre Korkie was abducted at least twice, by the way, and his wife Yolande, another Kumbaya Do-Gooder, was also previously abducted by Muslims.

    When one reads through the details of the following report from the relief website on the abduction and death of one of their own (Pierre Korkie), one (at least one who is capable of reading with an eye jaundiced by Islamorealism) comes away with an overwhelming impression that the West, through various international relief agencies more or less convolved with governments and/or the U.N., are involved in a grotesquely incenstuous relationship with the pathology of Muslim societies — for, among other things, the ongoing terror and trauam of the hostage negotations (Yolande had not even heard any word about her missing husband for 11 months, while negotiations were going on through third parties and “helpers” — most of them Muslims themselves, and a ransom of $200,000 (Euros?) had already been paid and yet the hostages were not freed, etc.) is predicated upon the grotesquely paradoxical situation of helping Muslims help themselves amid their own pathology that is causing the same problems being helped.

    http://www.giftofthegivers.org/disaster-relief/yemen/2014-02-13-11-32-42

    • voegelinian says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 5:18 pm

      Pardon the multiple typos; haven’t had my 15th cup of coffee yet…

      • St. Croix says

        Dec 7, 2014 at 9:43 pm

        If these journalists etc are going there to help “poor” muslims at least let them carry on their persons a charge they can detonate when they get grabbed by “other” muslims wanting them for ransom. So they don’t have to die in vain. Such as in the movie “Aliens” where Velazquez and the clueless Lieutenant (who redeems himself in this scene) get trapped–they wait until the alien is about to chomp down before detonating. Of course I’m speaking as a fool; no one is going to do this.

        But why are people so clueless in real life as to keep going back even after being abducted? Unfortunately these muslims are behaving just like the aliens in the movie and there is really no negociating with them; learning what their writings actually say has informed me re: the nature of their religion. So they will try to consume all in their path. Western culture is being invaded and eggs are being laid all over the place–in the “highest echelons” of our society. At least in the movie the enemy is visibly the “bad guys.” No one seems to realize Islam is the bad guy here–not just the obvious radicals.

        • voegelinian says

          Dec 8, 2014 at 3:06 pm

          It’s reasonable to assume about these various do-gooders (“journalists”, teachers, social workers) traveling to help Muslims that a) they are naively gullible, and b) because of (a), they tend to trust innumerable Muslim guides, translators and “friends” among the locals, and out of that population are of course untrustworthy Muslims pretending to be friendly, who facilitate the abductions. A more vivid example of our inability to tell the difference between harmless Muslim and dangerous Muslim would be hard to find.

  9. Johnny Canuck says

    Dec 7, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    U.S. forces were working with Yemeni forces. Do you suppose Al-Qaeda was tipped off by America’s Yemeni allies?

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