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Peter Kassig Beheaded By Islamic State; 'Today We Grieve,' Obama Says
LATimes ^ | November 16, 2014 | PATRICK J. MCDONNELL

Posted on 11/16/2014 4:05:53 PM PST by Steelfish

Peter Kassig Beheaded By Islamic State; 'Today We Grieve,' Obama Says

By PATRICK J. MCDONNELL. U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig beheaded by Islamic State, White House confirms Peter Kassig is third U.S. citizen known to have been beheaded by Islamic State

Islamic State militants have beheaded Peter Kassig, a U.S. aid worker and ex-Army Ranger who was captured last year in Syria while on a private humanitarian mission, the White House confirmed Sunday.

U.S. officials authenticated a 16-minute video, released on various social networks by the militant group earlier in the day. The video also includes footage of the mass beheading of men said to be Syrian government soldiers.

"Today we offer our prayers and condolences to the parents and family of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter," President Obama said in a statement released by the White House, using the name Kassig adopted after converting to Islam. "We cannot begin to imagine their anguish at this painful time."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulrahmankassig; beheading; fubo; isis; israel; kassig; kenyanbornmuzzie; missionary; peterkassig; syria; waronterror
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1 posted on 11/16/2014 4:05:53 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Grieving is for people who don’t have the ability to kick ass.


2 posted on 11/16/2014 4:07:01 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Steelfish

Another Double Bogey????


3 posted on 11/16/2014 4:07:08 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Steelfish

Insanity .....

http://tangentcode.org/2014/11/16/18-syrian-soldiers-mass-beheading/


4 posted on 11/16/2014 4:07:59 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Steelfish

We grieve??? What an anus. Did he say this before or after the headed off to a fundraiser?


5 posted on 11/16/2014 4:08:55 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Squantos

FAEs and MOABs. Use them anywhere these savages congregate.


6 posted on 11/16/2014 4:09:10 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Well said.
I guess this community organizer would have said this if he were President after 9/11


7 posted on 11/16/2014 4:09:14 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Finish you statement, Mr. President. Did you mean to say; “Today we grieve, but tomorrow we golf!”?


8 posted on 11/16/2014 4:10:14 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Steelfish

What a pyle.


9 posted on 11/16/2014 4:11:08 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“Today we grieve.”
Tomorrow,another fundraiser.


10 posted on 11/16/2014 4:12:09 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Steelfish

Notice how he offers condolences using the muslim name Kassig took after being kidnapped?

It’s called twisting the knife - he is an evil man!


11 posted on 11/16/2014 4:12:51 PM PST by GilesB
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To: Steelfish

Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter


he was a muslim and they killed him anyway...


12 posted on 11/16/2014 4:13:05 PM PST by RginTN
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"Today we offer our prayers and condolences to the parents and family of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter,"

Wait. What? Abdul-Rahman aka Peter???

So he was a Moose Limb convert or what?

Shouldn't he have at least appealed for restraint from anti-MooseLimb backlash? No. Wait. I'm confused. Tell me again when it's necessary to refrain from anti-MooseLimb backlash?

Shouldn't Obola sic the FBI on the beheader and charge him with a hate crime or something?

What a screwed up world. Wonderland had nothing on Obamaworld.

13 posted on 11/16/2014 4:13:25 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Steelfish

I am sure this is a sad day for this man’s family and I will pray for them.

That aside, he is one more brutal death at the hands of other brutal people.

Those people want us to engage them in a blood bath in Iraq and Syria. I don’t think we should play. Let those who are there, and who have something to lose play their games. Let the Kingdom send troops. Let Jordan send troops. This is not our fight.

If we engage with them, the ONLY way we win is by going total war on them. And America doesn’t understand that, and we do not have the heart for it.

Unless America is willing to use our heavy weapons, we will lose. Our leaders cannot lead. We restrict our soldiers. We waste money by dropping smart bombs to avoid hurting those people who won’t fight for themselves.

Let them kill each other. Tell the house of Saud they need to get their hands dirty.


14 posted on 11/16/2014 4:13:33 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Steelfish

Yeah yeah yeah Barry ... we get it ....


15 posted on 11/16/2014 4:13:39 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: ColdOne

No. A pilonidal cyst.


16 posted on 11/16/2014 4:14:15 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Steelfish

“Obama concluded: “ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own. “

Of course not,idiot.

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17 posted on 11/16/2014 4:14:56 PM PST by Mears
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To: Lurker

Just think how fast they would be destroyed if polidiots stayed out of our troops way at war with these murdering punks for 90 days....... Our troops could use 89 days of rest.


18 posted on 11/16/2014 4:16:22 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Grieving is for people who don’t have the ability to kick ass.

BUMPING that. WTF is "grieving" going to do against ISIS?

19 posted on 11/16/2014 4:17:39 PM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Grieving is for people who don’t have the ability to kick ass.

BUMPING that. WTF is "grieving" going to do against ISIS?

20 posted on 11/16/2014 4:17:39 PM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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