If someone is living in Raqqa and is viewing this spectacle on the big screen, there are surely incentives to cheer and smile as directed.
It sounds like Raqqa needs to get the WWII treatment Dresden, Germany got.
Or Chop-Chop Square in “modern” Saudi Arabia.
With the exception of a Jordanian, which muslims have deplored the act?
Look at the expression on Valerie Jarrett’s face at the beginning of the Obama video clip attached to the article.
She appears to be overjoyed about something.
Missed opportunity for a MOAB.
It is an object lesson to them too.
They know it can happen to them as well.
Some articles called this a new low for humanity.
I don’t see Islam as being human, they are in
the grip of a hegemonic hive mindset and need to be
stopped one way or another.
We can start by bringing destruction to the pillar
of their faith in Mecca and move on from there...
Maybe a few people in Jordan right now are wondering if this whole Islam thing was a good idea after all.
“specially erected giant screens in the terror group’s de facto capital Raqqa.”
Someone explain to me why Raqqa is still inhabitable? I was under the impression that no one had any idea where ISIS was, that they were difficult to find, that we couldn’t rescue the hostages. Yet, we see they were able to stage a murder, in front of a crowd, in a city they consider their capital.
In the article’s next to last photo the puppeteer Jarrett is smiling. Wonder what she thinks is so amusing?
No quarter, no prisoners! Kill all of the IS fighters, their money men and their Mullah’s! Leave only ashes and bones behind.
This is the society Bush and his cohorts went into Iraq, to save, salvage from the Iraqi leader, paid a price that can never be measured in the casualties we took, not even talking about the financial cost, so that they could be emancipated from a ruthless, psychotic, genocidal murderer and participate in the democratic process of freedom and liberty. I wonder what have to they say about it now.
This we do not bomb.
A 7th century culture using 21st century technology is a baaaad combination.
Where the hell were the drones? Women and children? All valid targets.
This is worse than Medieval.This sounds like something one of the more depraved Roman Emperors might have come up with, given 21st century technology.
If they couldn't rescue the poor bastard, they could at least take out a bunch of the animals being "entertained" by his death.
If you’re going to put on a spectacle, you have to make sure people see it. I hope if the Jordanians find an ISIS camp and blow it to smithereens, they not only broadcast it but offer it for pay-per-view with slo-mo and close-ups.
If it's to de-stablize Jordan they must be counting on in-country Jordanians to rise.
Raqqa should be turned into glass.