Posted on 02/06/2015 6:18:56 AM PST by blam
Zeina Karam, Associated Press
Feburary. 6, 2015
BEIRUT (AP) — A video of a Jordanian pilot being burned to death was exceptional in its brutality, even for the Islamic State group, and also was a sign that the militants intend to raise the stakes in their propaganda efforts, experts say.
It also offered confirmation to the belief that the airman was killed days or weeks before its release.
The 22-minute clip that appeared on websites Tuesday was a complex, extravagant work that would have taken a significant amount of time and organization to script, stage, produce and distribute, they said.
It also suggested that the demands last week for a prisoner swap for the pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kasaesbeh, were a cynical charade to increase the drama around his killing, because he most likely was already dead.
Jordanian state TV had said al-Kasaesbeh, who was flying missions for the U.S.-led campaign of airstrikes, was killed as long ago as Jan. 3, shortly after his F-16 came down in Islamic State-controlled territory in December.
"The more gruesome the executions are, the more attention they get," said Brigitte Nacos, a professor of political science at Columbia University.
"When President Obama responds to each of their killing videos ... that gives them the feeling of being a powerful political actor that legitimate actors have to deal with," she said.
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"An Iraqi man has shot and killed seven ISIS militants in an act of revenge for his son who was executed by the terrorist group, local media reports."
"Basil Ramadan, said to be in his 60s, used an AK-47 to gun down a group of militants at a checkpoint in Tikrit, a city northwest of Baghdad currently under ISIS control, before he was shot."
"Mr Ramadan’s son, Ahmed Basil, 18, was one of eight men executed by ISIS in January, accused of infiltrating the organisation and spying for the Iraqi government.
American males have really become a bunch of sissies with all of the political correctness going around. ISIS should be TOASTIS right now but America is afraid of it’s own shadow and really afraid that they might do something that might offend the Islamofascists.
ISIS holds one more American, since last year I think. Who knows what they’re going to do with the poor guy. Gruesome, no doubt.
Sooo ..... what do you think Obama will give up to keep the American hostage out of a fiery cage? Burning up a female American hostage might get the country’s attention and cut down on his golf game opportunities. He’s given up 5 top AQ terrorists for a deserter .... maybe this time he’ll go ahead and give them Gitmo (plus prisoners) for an operating base (if he doesn’t give it to Russia via Castro first?).
It takes strength to counter evil. Just saying.
Maybe if we just sit down and talk with them we can convince them to stop. /Sarc.
These two images side by side are the best comparison I have seen yet between a leader and a bottom feeder.
I believe the hostage is female and she is most likely already dead.
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