Posted on 02/15/2015 3:26:30 PM PST by Kaslin
The horror show into which the Middle East has transformed over the last four years continues — and expands. ISIS released a videotape today showing not one beheading of a hostage, but the simultaneous beheadings of 21 Christian hostages. The beheadings took place not in Syria or Iraq, but in Libya:
The terrorists known as ISIS released a video on Sunday that seems to show the militant group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya.
The Egyptians, dressed in orange jump suits, were beheaded after being forced down on the ground on a beach. An early caption in the video says the location is “Wilayat Tarabulus by the Mediterranean Sea,” which suggests that it was filmed near Tripoli.
Each of the victims, who are all male, is paired with a masked, knife-wielding terrorist and, after a brief statement by the ISIS leader, they are all beheaded.
Don’t expect to the see the video here, which was titled in part “A Message Signed in Blood.” The AP describes it so that the rest of us can pass on watching ISIS propaganda:
The video, released late Sunday night, shows several men in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. The men are made to kneel and one militant addresses the camera in English before the men are simultaneously beheaded.
ISIS seems like an atrocity-junkie terrorist group, always attempting to outdo itself in savagery for its missives to the West. They’ve continually attempted to ramp up the brutality in its videos towards their bound hostages, amplifying their cowardice and cruelty. What they hope to accomplish is fright and flight, but what they’re likelier to get is more opposition and bigger headaches.
Other than the butchery of peaceful Egyptian Copts, the most troublesome geopolitical aspect of this video is the location of the atrocities. Four years ago, this would have been impossible, as the fairly brutal Qaddafi regime had kept the terror networks underground. Thanks to the failed state that followed the war launched by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton against Moammar Qaddafi, ISIS has apparently won the loyalties of some of the militias that had been associated with al-Qaeda in the Maghreb. This shows once again why the West shouldn’t have gone to war in Libya without a massive ground force to fill the vacuum after the fall of the Qaddafi regime — and why it will take a large army to contain and destroy ISIS. In fact, this suggests that one large army may no longer be enough.
Update: I forgot to include the link to the first report, which I’ve corrected above. One commenter scolds me for not including the word Islam in the post, but we’ve been writing about ISIS for long enough for readers to know it stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. I was trying to get a thread started as soon as possible after reading the news, so I didn’t spell it out — but then again, I hardly thought it was necessary.
Update: (Jazz) You might think these idiots would learn their lesson from what happened with Jordan, but Egypt is responding in pretty much the same way.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday that Egypt reserved the right to respond in a way it sees fit to the Islamic State’s beheading of 21 Egyptians in neighboring Libya.
Sisi warned Cairo would choose the “necessary means and timing to avenge the criminal killings”. He was speaking on national television hours after Islamic State released a video purportedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya.
I know I’ve been an advocate for American action, but if these cretins tick off enough countries over there we might not need to bother.
- Rev. 20:4
Lord have mercy.
ISIS is a result od obama pulling out of Iraq too soon. Obama and the muslim brotherhood were on the wrong side in Libya too.
Time to remove all, repeat, all muslims from the land of the living.
LOTS of Twitter activity about this in the last hour os so.
Italy is going to ask for UN Mission to retake Libya.
Egypt’s Sisi is holding an emergency meeting right now, they are considering military action in Libya, and a tweet from 30 minutes ago says that the government has ordered the border with Libya is to be closed, effective immediately.
How’s Obama’s Middle East foreign policy working out for you?
“ISIS is a result od obama pulling out of Iraq too soon. Obama and the muslim brotherhood were on the wrong side in Libya too”
Yet another GREAT OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY VICTORY....
... that the American sheeple will never hear about.
OH...
If you deny that it is anything other than that, YOU ARE A RACIST!!, or a homophobe, or sumpin’.
That is the perfect photo to describe islam. It tells everything.
This is a “President’s Day” gift from the muzzies to the muslim carpet worshiping, anti-Semite and anti-Christian puppet of Valerie Jarrett, herself a muzzie too.
Obozo will probably fall on his knees (without knocking Reggie Love over) and thank Allah for such a perfectly timed gift: not 1, not 2, but 21 devout Christians slaughtered by muzzy filthy cowards with their faces covered.
Ah . . . joy is in our White House.
What do you mean? This has nothing to with Islam, not a thing. Don’t you watch the news and listen to our fearless leaders?
/sarc as if needed
Obama is the reason thousands of Chrisrians have been slaughtered in Syria, Iraq, and now in Libya.
Honestly, I couldn’t begging to guess the number.
Filthy subhuman savages.
Yes it is
In 2012, most Americans were more concerned about their free abortions, free birth control, "free" health care, homosexual marriage, EBT cards, and union bailouts than they were about something like this.
Hopefully, 2014 is a sign that this is changing.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
And idly we sit back... and do selfies...
Behold our next president. The media has already started the process of destroying any viable opposition. What they miss destroying will be taken out by principled conservatives in their circular firing squads.
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