ISIS's Latest Video Shows The Group 'Fears Isolation And Attack' From US

http://www.businessinsider.com/isiss-latest-video-shows-the-group-fears-isolation-and-attack-from-us-2014-9 ^ | 9-19-2014 | Dave Clark, AFP

[blam]

Dave Clark, AFP
September 19, 2014

A dramatic change of tone in the latest hostage video released by the Islamic State has convinced experts that the jihadist group is isolated and fearful of a US assault.

Where three previous clips ended with a masked militant slitting the throat of a kneeling hostage, the new release Thursday -- a teaser trailer for a promised series of documentaries -- takes a different tack.

The hostage, British photojournalist John Cantlie, sits behind a desk and in a measured tone makes the case for Western powers to drop the threat of military intervention against his captors.

He admits he is speaking as a prisoner and that he may yet follow his former cellmates to the grave, but urges viewers to tune in to a series of films that will reveal another side of the Islamic State group, which has rampaged across large areas of Iraq and Syria.

The video shares the polished production values of its predecessors but none of the blood-soaked savagery, a telling detail for analysts.

Professor Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence at King's College London, said the militants had provoked a backlash.

"They were so brutal and made it so easy for Western governments to portray their enemy as completely barbaric people that need to be destroyed," he told AFP.

"And now they are doing the exact opposite. Now they are saying: 'We are reasonable people, if Western governments would just talk to us, then everything could be resolved quite easily.'"

'Big charade'

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[rdcbn]

They are being coached by the Obama Administration and their strategy dovetails with Obama’s

[cripplecreek]

Yeah, ya hack off a couple of heads and its all people remember about you.

[winoneforthegipper]

Evidently they wrote that before today's ISIS release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDf7rDIR_k&feature=youtu.be

[Don Corleone]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again,”The best war is the shortest war.”To hell with the collateral damage. Carpet bomb the whole damn area into glass if necessary. Take out the ports, oil refineries and oil wells. Destroy the rail lines and roads. Erase the power grid. IOW immobilize them all to the point of relying on their camels again. It would be cheaper all around to send them a message to not fool with Uncle Sugar than to play mumbly peg for another 3, 5, 10 or 20 years and end up no better off than we are now. Who has the cajones to do it?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Who has the cajones to do it?

You assume TPTB want to win a war against the muslims.

I presume this so-called 'war' is merely a means to an end.

[RaveOn]

“I presume this so-called ‘war’ is merely a means to an end.”

Population reduction. That’s what the TPTB really want.

[TigersEye]

Kill them all.

[RaveOn]

Last week the meme being spread by the MSM apologists was “They only attack us because we say mean things about them.” Now this week it’s “Stop it, you’re scaring us.”

Can’t wait to see next week’s excuse!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Oh. All right then. Everything is A.O.K. and we can all go home now. The muzzies are going to play nice in the sandbox.

[Fledermaus]

I call BS. They don’t seem to care about anything.