ISIS claimed Friday that an American hostage was killed during Jordanian airstrikes on the terrorist group.
“The failed Jordanian aircraft killed an American female hostage,” said the message released through a Jihadist watchdog website. “No mujahid (fighters) was injured in the bombardment, and all praise is due to Allah.”
“The criminal Crusader coalition aircraft bombarded a site outside the city of ar-Raqqah today at noon while the people were performing the Friday prayer,” ISIS said. “The air assaults were continuous on the same location for more than an hour.”
The woman, Kayla Mueller, was taken by the terrorists in 2013. The woman had moved to Syria to help children who were orphaned or separated from their families by the civil war.
She is the fourth American to die at the hands of ISIS. Sources say it’s very possible the terrorists actually executed her so they could blame her death on Jordan through social media outlets.
The White House said American intelligence officials are investigating the claim.
Islamic extremist group ISIS has released a modification for a video game that allows a player to be a terrorist killing westerners.
The modification is for a game created by Czech developers Bohemia Interactive called ARMA III which is a futuristic first-person shooter based in the year 2030. The game allows NATO forces to fight against Middle Eastern terrorists.
The game modification is not an official release by the Czech developers and was introduced by a terrorist in an online forum.
“I will, with the help of Allah, make dozens of copies for this game and distribute it to all the brothers that use the name of the caliphate,” the terrorist wrote.
Terrorism analysts say the game is another attempt by the group to try and recruit youth to join their jihad.
A British man convicted of terrorism told Sky News that those games are also being used to “dehumanize” the young gamers and make them un-phased by graphic violence.
“You got an eight or nine-year-old child playing those kind of violent games with heads blowing off and limbs blowing off,” Shahid Butt said. “What kind of mentality is that kid going to have? You dehumanized that person. To go and fight in Syria is as easy as going on holiday in Disneyland. Because you have made it easy.”
The brutal murder of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic extremist group ISIS has drawn an unusually sharp response from Jordan’s King Abdullah.
King Abdullah told security chiefs that the pilot’s death would not “be in vain” and that Jordan would strike quickly and harshly on the terrorists.
“The blood of martyr Moaz al-Kasasbeh will not be in vain and the response of Jordan and its army after what happened to our dear son will be severe,” King Abdullah reportedly said. “This evil can and should be defeated.”
The King cut short a visit to the United States after the posting of the video to return home to deal with the fallout of the murder.
Jordan immediately executed two ISIS terrorists held after a failed bombing.
The family of the slain pilot spoke with the King and with Jordan military officials and asked them to completely eliminate ISIS.
A report from a former vice chief of staff for the Army regarding ISIS that was mostly negative had one bright spot from a military standpoint: the top chemical weapons expert for the terror group was killed in an airstrike.
Retired General Jack Keane told new members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that Abu Malik was killed last Saturday in an airstrike near Mosul. Malik was a chemical weapons engineer for Saddam Hussein who joined al-Qaeda and then ISIS after the fall of Saddam.
“His death is expected to temporarily degrade and disrupt the terrorist network and diminish ISIL’s ability to potentially produce and use chemical weapons against innocent people,” US Central Command said in a statement.
But the news was tempered by Gen. Keane’s view that ISIS has begun to “dominate” in multiple countries.
“After U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq in 2011, ISIS emerged as a terrorist organization in Iraq, moved into Syria in 2012. Is it possible to look at that map in front of you and claim that the United States policy and strategy is working? Or that al-Qaeda is on the run? It is unmistakable that our policies have failed,” Gen. Keane said.
“In my view, we became paralyzed by the fear of adverse consequences in the Middle East after fighting two wars,” he added. “Moreover, as we sit here this morning, in the face of radical Islam, U.S. policymakers refuse to accurately name the movement as radical Islam. We further choose not to define it, nor explain its ideology, and most critical, we have no comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it.”
Islamic extremist group ISIS has killed a Jordanian pilot captured over Syria by burning him alive inside a cage.
The video posted online shows Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh inside a steel cage. He tries to cover his head before falling to his knees and being burned to ash. The 22 minute video shows the terrorists parading the captured man through the streets before the brutal killing.
Jordanian state television confirmed the man in the video is Lt. al-Kasasbeh and that the death happened a month ago. The terrorists had been sitting on the video while negotiating with the Jordanian government for millions of dollars for the pilot’s release.
President Obama told reporters that the video gives “one more indication” of the hate that comes from the terrorist group.
“I think it will redouble the vigilance and determination of the part of the global coalition to make sure they are degraded and ultimately defeated,” he added.
Public officials in Jordan say that the public is calling for the government to execute ISIS terrorists currently held in jails.
Kenji Goto, 47, was slaughtered by the Islamic extremist group ISIS in a video released to social media over the weekend. Goto told reporters last year he felt compelled by the Lord to do all he could to help rescue Haruna Yukawa after he was abducted by the terrorists in Aleppo last year.
Goto said he found the Lord in 1997 and had dedicated his life to following the Lord’s call. He said he wanted to minister to Yukawa, who had faced a difficult life including bankruptcy and his wife’s suicide attempt and battle with cancer.
Goto went to Syria and made his way to Raqqa, the headquarters of the terrorist group, in an attempt to negotiate for his friend’s freedom.
“I need to go there at least once and see my fixers (freelance journalist connections) and ask them what the current situation is,” he told Reuters. “I need to talk to them face to face. I think that’s necessary.”
Goto believed that because Japan was not part of the coalition against the group, he likely would have a greater chance of success.
The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinto Abe, made bold statements after the killing. In a departure from the country’s post-World War II pattern of pacifism, he said Japan would do all they could to work with the international community to bring the killers to justice.
In the midst of the horror of ISIS in Iraq, one unidentified Iraqi man is using his wealth to try and make a difference for good.
The man is reportedly using stand-ins to purchase sex slaves from the terrorist group and then reuniting the women with their families in other parts of Iraq.
The terrorist group has been funding part of their campaign of terror through selling captured women as sex slaves or as brides in forced marriages. The women are usually killed if they refuse or try to escape.
Critics within Iraq and in activist groups around the world against ISIS have been slamming the man for giving money to the terrorist group but he told a reporter working for YouTube channel StreamDZ that all he cared about was freeing the women and returning them to their families.
One of the former slaves who has been freed told the story of a girl named Jilan who had been one of several that committed suicide after capture rather than endure the horrors subjected to them through ISIS.
“We were 21 girls in one room, two of them were very young, 10 to 12 years. One day they were given clothes that looked like dance costumes and were told to bathe and wear those clothes. Jilan killed herself in the bathroom,” the woman said. “She cut her wrists and hanged herself. She was beautiful. I think she knew that she was going to be taken away to a man and that is why she killed herself.”
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has released another video showing a beheading and issuing threats to President Obama.
The video was found by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Tuesday and shows three ISIS terrorists behind a kneeling Kurdish fighter.
“Know, oh Obama, that will reach America,” says one of the fighters, clad in black and wearing a balaclava, in a translation from Arabic provided by MEMRI. “Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House, and transform America into a Muslim Province.”
The terrorists then threaten European governments with more violence.
“And this is my message to France and to its sister, Belgium,” he said. “We advise you that we will come to you with car bombs and explosive charges, and will cut off your heads.”
The video fades to black as the beheading begins.
The group also released a second video that bears the voice of a Japanese hostage saying he has less than 24 hours to live. The terrorists are calling for the release of a jailed woman in Jordan in exchange for the man’s life.
The executions of Islamic terrorist group ISIS is continuing as 17 men were crucified for refusing to submit to the terrorist group’s “caliphate.”
The terrorists released a group of photos on a social media site showing the murders of the men. One showed two men being thrown off a tall building. Others showed the brutal crucifixion process.
The videos and photos posted by the group are intended to have “Muslims come watch the application of the law.”
In addition to the men, a woman was shown being stoned to death on accusations of adultery in a wooded area hidden from public view.
“The Islamic State group has executed 16 men in Deir Ezzor and one more in Raqa, to send a message to all their opponents after recent assassinations of 12 Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian jihadists,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Director Rami Abdel Rahman. “ISIS is sending a message to all people living under its control, to say: ‘This is what will happen to any opponent.'”
The royal family of Saudi Arabia is taking pro-active steps to fight the Islamic terrorist group ISIS by building a 600-mile long wall to block the Iraq/Saudi border.
The fence will run from Jordan to Kuwait. The fencing system will five layers of barbed wire fencing, a ditch, a patrol road, underground motion sensors, 40 watchtowers, radar, day/night cameras and rapid intervention teams.
The entire system will also be connected through a fiber-optic network.
The royal family had first thought about a wall in 2006 during the U.S. invasion of Iraq but put the plan in motion after ISIS tried to sneak into the country through the border town of Arar.
The Saudi military has already sent 30,000 additional troops to the border to secure it.
ISIS top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Sunnis within Saudi Arabia to being terrorist attacks on the royal family.