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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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To: dfwgator
Darwin Award Candidate

And you also would nominate the defenders of The Alamo for a Darwin?

Peter Kassig had a life well lived!
"A daring adventure, or nothing."
Indeed!

41 posted on 11/16/2014 5:01:50 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good.)
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To: Steelfish
"Today we grieve." Yeah, talk, talk and more talk. When are you going to stop with the bs talking and actually DO something about it? I doubt that will ever happen with you as CinC.
42 posted on 11/16/2014 5:08:24 PM PST by navyblue (<u> Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Steelfish

Just keep him talking. Eventually he will get around to explaining how it’s all America’s fault.


43 posted on 11/16/2014 5:10:23 PM PST by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: Steelfish

The Koranimals take down another human being of worth.


44 posted on 11/16/2014 5:13:11 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Defenders of the Alamo were defending their homes.

What was Kassig defending?


45 posted on 11/16/2014 5:19:14 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: navyblue

“Today we grieve.”

The only way he would grieve would be if he woke up with
Kassig’s head on the next pillow, THEN he would know
cold FEAR and grieve for his fleeting safety.


46 posted on 11/16/2014 5:22:15 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Steelfish; GeronL

Who got the shout out?

Does Barry Obama regret his decision to give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral yet?


47 posted on 11/16/2014 6:00:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Steelfish

If I was POTUS, B-52’s loaded with nukes would be on their way to Mecca and Medina.


48 posted on 11/16/2014 6:10:55 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: ArtDodger

Agree !!!


49 posted on 11/16/2014 6:30:47 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: dfwgator

The Defenders of the Alamo were defending their homes.

So Travis,Crockett,Bowie and 200+ more were all Catholic priest who lived in the Alamo?

What was Kassig defending?

The same as the defenders of the Alamo, FREEDOM!


50 posted on 11/16/2014 6:36:14 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Was he armed there? It’s ridiculous to be in that part of the world without having any means to defend yourself.


51 posted on 11/16/2014 6:38:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Steelfish

Was this one performed by “Jihad John”? Wasn’t there a news item in the Brit media that he’d been critically injured in a drone attack?


52 posted on 11/16/2014 6:49:30 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

One Day to grieve, following by unlimited bombing runs


53 posted on 11/16/2014 6:55:49 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: dfwgator

I can proudly state that I served with a young man that followed all orders but one. He would NOT fire his weapon.
When asked, he would calmly state that it was wrong to kill and he would die first.This was RVN 1969 he was the ‘real deal’.
His MOS was changed from infantryman to cook trainee.

I could easily see him in the same roll.

More than a few conscientious objector medics awarded the Medal of Honor and they did not carry weapons,chaplains too.


54 posted on 11/16/2014 7:11:00 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good.)
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To: Steelfish

I don’t think he hit the golf links afterwards this time....


55 posted on 11/16/2014 9:06:09 PM PST by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: Mears
“Obama concluded: “ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith “

"least of all the muslim faith". Meaning, that if such acts were to represent a faith, they would represent Christianity before islam.

56 posted on 11/17/2014 12:33:52 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Steelfish

Even conversion didn’t help this fool. He was a good man trying to do good and all it got him was death. Now we know the face of the enemy and it is Satan.


57 posted on 11/17/2014 6:13:24 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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