Posted on 02/25/2015 11:09:05 AM PST by NorthMountain
(CNN)ISIS is holding many more Assyrian Christians hostage than previously thought -- and it is reportedly planning to release a message Wednesday threatening to kill them.
Osama Edward, founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network, told CNN that the extremist group is now believed to have 150 hostages, citing the latest information from the network's team on the ground.
Initial estimates put the number seized at between 70 and 100 people, among them women, children and the elderly.
The video message will be directed to President Barack Obama and other members of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, Edward said from Stockholm, Sweden.
The Assyrians were kidnapped early Monday from villages near Tal Tamer in northeastern Syria.
Edward, who has family in the area attacked by the terror group, said the latest information from the ground indicated the hostages had been moved to an ISIS-controlled location.
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This I know, 'cuz Bam-Bam told me so.
If they’re held by ISIS ,they’re already dead
“The video message will be directed to President Barack Obama...”
Who will IGNORE it. Those Christians are as good as dead.
Man, we are so screwed.
Guess they’ll have to start kidnapping peeps o’ color for anyone to care. In the US, Christian hostages are a huge yawn.
Everyone is watching 50 Shades of Crap.
Yup. Dead men walking. Time to nape an ISIS HQ.
We need some job openings FAST!!!
They are already dead. White House is pleased.
Try to bring alcohol to a cab driven by a muslim and you're infringing his religious rights.
it's bizarro world.
Some one at CNN is going to get a stern phone call from the White House propaganda bureau for putting irrelevant, racist information in this report.
It should read as follows: “Some random guys kidnapped some random people randomly and religion had nothing to do with it.”
Remember:
Islam good - Christianity BAD
Seriously, why are Christians still in Syria? I’d leave with the clothes on my back if I had to.
Better yet, why hasn’t anybody decided to air lift them to safety?
I’m appalled at how so many politicians just dither.
or pleasure sex slaves if not dead
Impoverished Islamic youths with too much time on their hands.
Activist: ISIS holds 150 RANDOM hostages, will threaten to kill them
Prayer ping!
The conditions of killing are not clear, though I presume they want money.
I wonder when the time will come when Americans don’t even pretend to care about stuff like this.
I grabbed the article from cnn dot com; I seriously doubt that it will appear on anybody’s evening news. The antics of hollywood sluts are far more newsworthy.
Wow! 150 random folks picked for no particular reason by a group that is clearly not Islamic. Will wonders never cease?
I think that ISIS, Boko Haram and the Hebdo outrage may have presented a crack in the wall where even a surprising number of leftist/liberals just cannot deny that this has something to do with Islam. I think Graeme Wood’s publication in the notoriously hard liberal Atlantic was an eye opener too. Granted, too many will still insist until they are blue in the face that Obama is by far the best man for the job and label you an ignorant buffoon if you object to this. And so they remain very much part of the problem and on a fundamental level they still are the problem. But I have discussed with numerous intellectuals who now say they cannot deny the link with islam anymore, and I’m in academia.
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