ISIS claims to have beheaded captured U.S. journalist

BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago, and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on U.S. action in Iraq.

The video, titled "A Message To America," was posted on social media sites. It was not immediately possible to verify its authenticity.

Foley, who has reported in the Middle East for five years, was kidnapped on Nov. 22, 2012, by unidentified gunmen. Steven Sotloff, who appeared at the end of the video, went missing in northern Syria while he was reporting in July 2013.

A Twitter account set up by his family to help find him said early on Wednesday: "We know that many of you are looking for confirmation or answers. Please be patient until we all have more information, and keep the Foleys in your thoughts and prayers."

The White House said that U.S. intelligence agents were working to verify the authenticity of a video.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:The Kurds are defending against direct attack, and now only now since they have been facing direct attack.
And only a few others paying lip service and telling us how it's nothing to do mitigate Islam etc Blah Blah Blah......
The cartoons got more reaction.....
Says it all really....

Cartoons and even Gaza get more of a 'reaction' because such protests would be pointless when it comes to ISIS. The West are already reacting to the threat. Why protest? Just to make people like you feel better about Muslims? HA!

Didge wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:Making friends with someone who gassed his own people.

Strange world.

Again it is what I was saying to you about tactics, again what is the greater threat?
Many Brits were aghast that we became allies with the Soviet Union and Stalin, but both had a common cause to defeat Hitler, he being the greater threat at the time. Of course when the war was over, shortly after the Soviet Union became the greater threat again.
Strange world indeed, but like now the greater enemy is IS.

Didge wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Cartoons and even Gaza get more of a 'reaction' because such protests would be pointless when it comes to ISIS. The West are already reacting to the threat. Why protest? Just to make people like you feel better about Muslims? HA!

When you already have a distrust within a community of Muslims, it would go a long way to dispel myths created against the Muslim community and show their solidarity against extremism. If they only protest at certain aspects, like Gaza, then people will question, why they are not protesting against such extremism, especially where in this country we know some British Muslim have gone off to join IS. Now of course I know many Muslims are not like this, but the media portrays a poor image already of Muslims, and thus if they stand up and be counted this helps as stated proves the media and Islamophobes wrong

Tommy Monk wrote:Well if so many Muslims can go out there and fight for ISIS, why aren't we seeing even more outraged Muslims going out there to fight against them...

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Didge wrote:

Again it is what I was saying to you about tactics, again what is the greater threat?
Many Brits were aghast that we became allies with the Soviet Union and Stalin, but both had a common cause to defeat Hitler, he being the greater threat at the time. Of course when the war was over, shortly after the Soviet Union became the greater threat again.
Strange world indeed, but like now the greater enemy is IS.

ISIS are not the Nazi's when it comes to power. You are either deliberately over-hyping or bought into the propaganda that ISIS actually pose to the Western borders. Western interest such as oil, for sure. But they're not a territorial threat like the nazis. A few well placed bombs can re-secure Western interests in the Middle East.

Further, I doubt those Brits who have joined ISIS are going to return to the UK. They have gone there to live their dream of a caliphate. And die there if required.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Didge wrote:

When you already have a distrust within a community of Muslims, it would go a long way to dispel myths created against the Muslim community and show their solidarity against extremism. If they only protest at certain aspects, like Gaza, then people will question, why they are not protesting against such extremism, especially where in this country we know some British Muslim have gone off to join IS. Now of course I know many Muslims are not like this, but the media portrays a poor image already of Muslims, and thus if they stand up and be counted this helps as stated proves the media and Islamophobes wrong

Again, it is not our responsibility to placate bigots.

Most people are rational enough to know Muslims are not a threat.

A former rapper fighting with the Islamic State (Isis) in Syria is believed to be one of several British jihadists under investigation following the beheading of James Foley.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, was known as L Jinny or Lyricist Jinn at home in London, where his rising music career saw him appear in videos and have his singles played on BBC Radio in 2012.

He came to national attention earlier this year, when he posted a picture of himself holding a severed head on Twitter after resurfacing in Syria.

The gruesome picture, believed to have been taken in the Isis stronghold of Raqqa, was captioned: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.”

Bary reportedly travelled to the country last year from Maida Vale, west London, where he lived with his mother and five siblings.

His father Adel Abdul Bary, an Egyptian refugee thought to be one of Osama Bin Laden’s closes lieutenants, was extradited from Britain to the United States on charges of terrorism in 2012 for his alleged roles in the bombings of two US embassies in east Africa in 1998.

His family is frequently mentioned in rap songs that are still floating around the internet, with many people, unaware of L Jinny’s macabre transformation, praising his lyrics

The Puzzler wrote:

Didge wrote:

Bit different, the IRA, had much financial and military help from the US.
What we need to ensure is we do not allow back in those who have gone to fight for IS, they should be hanged for treason, as if we do, we allow Trained bomb makers in, which then you are right, there will be a problem

The wahhabi scum are receiving billions in funding from Saudi to promote their ultra fundamentalist version of Islam in schools and mosques up and down the country - and sending out jihadi freaks to training camps in Wales - yes, Wales, not the mountains of Pakistan or Yemen but the Brecon Beacons.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/sep/03/terrorism.world1

The article is almost a decade old but you can bet your bottom dollar such camps still operate. How has it come to this when we have Islamic terrorists being trained on our OWN soil? I fear that we will see a very bloody religious war on our streets within in the next few decades, unless something serious is done to combat militant Islam. Groups like the EDL will be made to look like teddy bears eventually, Brits won't stand for daily beheadings and bombings in the street and this country will end up like the Balkans. While we're in the EU and tied to the ECHR and HRA, any government will find it impossible to prevent bombers and genocidal ISIS nutters from reentering the UK.

nicko wrote:I have fought in two wars, Vietnam and Ireland, I have learnt one thing.If you want to win a war go all out to win it, take no notice of Rules of Engagement, take no notice of "we can't do that it's not right" Take no notice of the "do gooders" go in hard with no mercy. fight the enemy as they fight us.   Shady got it right.