Posted on 09/25/2014 4:49:24 AM PDT by markomalley
Islamist militants in the Philippines are understood to be threatening to behead one of two German hostages being held, unless Germany agrees to pay a large ransom and withdraw all support for the US-led attacks on ISIS in Iraq and Syria within 15 days. Germany has stressed that it will not be threatened in this way, The Local has reported.
The hostages, reported to be a German doctor and his girlfriend, were sailing a yacht between Malaysia and the Philippines in April this year when they were abducted by Abu Sayyaf, a militant Islamic group acting in the region.
It appears that the group are now following the examples of ISIS militants, who within the last month have beheaded two Americans and a Brit, and threatened the lives of two more, and a group acting in Algeria who yesterday beheaded a French tourist, having demanded the French government withdraw their troops from Iraq and Syria within 24 hours; a demand that was not met.
A German foreign ministry spokesman has confirmed that the German government has "heard about the report," but stressed "threats are now an appropriate way to influence our policy in Syria and Iraq". She also confirmed that "there will be no change to our Syria and Iraq policy".
The threat against the hostages was uncovered by SITE, a US-based jihadist monitoring organisation which regularly helps the FBI and American governmental departments with their investigations into global jihad. They have posted a picture on their website attributed to Abu Sayyaf which shows a white haired man in his sixties or early seventies, kneeling besides a younger woman with close cropped brown hair.
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C and E. A government that does not eliminate the muzzy threat.
I'm hoping that should read "not".
Philippines have a LONG history of terrorist groups..going all the way back to the HUK rebellion.
The 45 pistol was actually developed because US troops in the Philippines did not have a weapon with sufficient stopping power. The terrorists were high on drugs, and would bind up their arms and legs to cut off pain..
Not that the Philippines was on my vacation list but...
How far inland can German frigates throw missiles?
A hundred years ago, the European powers would sit off the coasts of their colonies and lob shells at the locals for just this kind of offense.
The subhuman savages have overrun the Phillippines. Everywhere they go they spread death and destruction.
Black Jack knew how to deal with them.
Yup...that why the US Army requested the .45 pistol..it had the necessary stopping power..
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