The shell game censorship and reedited rewrites(?) are not:
"Video shows slaying of British aid worker" by ZEINA KARAM and SYLVIA HUI — Sep. 13, 2014
BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State extremists released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, who was abducted in Syria last year, and British Prime Minister David Cameron late Saturday condemned his slaying as "an act of pure evil."
Yawn, and while on the subject of evil, when is the next airstrike due?
Cameron confirmed Haines' death in a statement after the British Foreign Office had said earlier that it was "working urgently to verify the video." Haines is the third Westerner beheaded in recent weeks by the Islamic State group, which has seized vast swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Why bother? We all know it is staged and scripted propaganda theater and all fake.
"This is a despicable and appalling murder of an innocent aid worker. It is an act of pure evil," Cameron said, adding that "my heart goes out to the family of David Haines who have shown extraordinary courage and fortitude throughout this ordeal."
"We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes," Cameron said.
Sounds very 9/11ish, doesn't it?
You Brits all gung-ho for another war amid increasing wealth inequality and more poverty?
At least bankers and related war industries are piling up ca$h. There is always a $ilver lining to the death and de$truction.
Cameron returned to his residence at 10 Downing Street shortly after midnight and is expected to chair a meeting of the government's emergency response committee early Sunday.
The video emerged a day after Haines' family issued a public plea late Friday urging his captors to contact them.
Same thing happened to the Foley crisis actors, and the ruse continued with the complaint about the US government handling of it all.
The Foreign Office said it was offering Haines' family "every support possible. They ask to be left alone at this time."
Islamic State militants recently beheaded two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and posted the videos online after the U.S. began launching airstrikes and humanitarian missions in August to aid waning Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. The Islamic State group has also put out videos showing the beheading of Kurdish and Lebanese soldiers and the mass shooting of dozens of captured Syrian soldiers.
Gee, who enabled all that?
At the end of the video showing the beheading of Sotloff, the Islamic State group threatened to kill Haines next and briefly showed him on camera.
Dam if you will get to the bottom of this.
President Barack Obama issued a statement strongly condemning "the barbaric murder" of Haines by the Islamic State terrorist group.
Then he okayed a list of drone strikes after consulting his kill list.
"The United States stands shoulder to shoulder tonight with our close friend and ally in grief and resolve. We will work with the United Kingdom and a broad coalition of nations from the region and around the world to bring the perpetrators of this outrageous act to justice, and to degrade and destroy this threat to the people of our countries, the region and the world," Obama said.
What a sphincter.
On Wednesday, Obama gave a nationally televised speech outlining a potential military campaign to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State militants that is likely to include training and equipping moderate Syrian rebels and Iraqi forces, providing intelligence, and expanding airstrikes against extremists in Iraq and potentially into Syria. Britain was among the initial group of countries joining the U.S.-led coalition to root out the Islamic State extremists.
Then why did you create them?!!!???
I'm sorry, but this shallow and superficial shit sucks!!!!
In the video showing Haines' slaying, the group threatened to kill another British captive. Both British men were dressed in orange jumpsuits against an arid Syrian landscape, similar to that seen in the Foley and Sotloff videos.
The SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, reported the video, which was also posted online by users associated with the Islamic State group.
Oh, that CONFIRMS it is a piece of SHIT if it's SITE!
The video was entitled "A Message to the Allies of America." Haines' killer, who appeared to be the same masked man speaking with a British accent and brandishing a knife as in the previous videos, tells the British government that its alliance with the U.S. will only "accelerate your destruction" and will drag the British people into "another bloody and unwinnable war".
Meaning these videos were all made at the same time, folks.
This is a huge propaganda operation and a complete hoax for the uJEWal interest!
In the video, according to a transcript provided by SITE, Haines says that he holds Cameron "entirely responsible for my execution" because Britain has "voluntarily entered into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic state."
See that wastebasket over there?
His killer says in the video that Haines was paying the price for Britain's decision to supply weapons to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who are battling the Islamic State group in northern Iraq. He references U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State fighters near the Haditha Dam in western Iraq, which the U.S. began targeting on Sept. 7 — indicating that Haines' killing took place sometime during the past week.
The British government had managed to keep Haines' kidnapping secret out of concern for his safety until the Sotloff beheading video identified him as a captive and the next victim.
Late Friday, the family of Haines issued a public plea urging his captors to contact them.
In a short statement released through Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the family said: "We are asking those holding David to make contact with us."
Haines, 44, was abducted near a refugee camp in northern Syria in March 2013 while working for the French international aid agency ACTED which was helping thousands of Syrians displaced by the fighting between Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces and rebel groups, including the Islamic State, seeking to oust him.
Oh, then he was a spy for western intelligence. Ooo-kay.
ACTED said in a statement earlier this month that Haines had worked with as an international aid worker since 1999, helping victims of conflict in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. Before heading to Syria, ACTED said Haines had worked in 2012 as a "non-partisan unarmed civilian peace facilitator" in South Sudan.
Longtime spy then.
Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the Islamic State group releases such videos because it has concluded that neither the American nor the European public has the stomach for a protracted conflict in which civilians are tortured and killed.
Why in the world, after all the lies over the last decade, would we want the "expert" opinion of some Jewish neo-con war monger in the jew$pape.... OOOOOOOOOOOH! Yeah.
"Each video that's released, of course, is a propaganda coup, if you will," Rubin, a Pentagon official during the George W. Bush administration, told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday night.
Actually, it isn't because this laughable crap is failing miserably!
If the slaying of Haines took place in the last few days, Rubin said, the timing suggests that U.S. and other forces have no idea where the extremists are keeping their captives and that, in turn, means a lack of intelligence about what goes on within the group itself.
That's weird because Kerry told us they do know and have failed rescues to prove it.
Mike Haines said in a statement issued by the Foreign Office that his brother was devoted to humanitarian work.
"David was most alive and enthusiastic in his humanitarian roles," Mike Haines said. "His joy and anticipation for the work he went to do in Syria is for myself and family the most important element of this whole sad affair. He was and is loved by all his family and will be missed terribly."
Nice acting job by both, too.
British media have reported that Haines, who is married to a Croatian woman, was educated in Perth, Scotland, and spent 11 years serving in the British Royal Air Force before becoming an international aid worker.
He's MI-6!!!!!!!!
Britain's Press Association said Haines had a teenage daughter in Scotland from a previous marriage and a 4-year-old daughter from his present marriage.
I wonder how she voted.
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This was also part of my print article, and why the need to censor and separate?
"Syrian Troops Pound Central Village Amid Offensive
Sep 13, 2014
Associated Press
Syrian warplanes and helicopter gunships struck targets in a central village on Saturday in what appears to be preparations for a ground offensive on the rebel stronghold, activists said.
The air raids on Kfar Zeita, which has been under rebel control for nearly two years, came amid a major government offensive in the religiously mixed central province of Hama.
Syria now an ally against ISIS, right?
Saturday's air raids came two days after troops captured the strategic town of Halfaya, better positioning government forces to defend nearby Christian and Alawite communities that support President Bashar Assad. Central Syria is a communal patchwork home to large groups of Christians, Ismailis and Alawites, who mainly back Assad, himself an Alawite. Many from these groups fear attacks on them by extremists among the mostly-Sunni rebels.
Kfar Zeita and the nearby town of Morek, which are on the highway linking Hama with Aleppo, have been rebel-controlled since late 2012.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian warplanes conducted at least eight air strikes on Kfar Zeita. It had no word on casualties.
They sound like reported US airstrikes in Iraq.
A Hama-based activist who goes by the name of Yazan Shahdawi said that by the afternoon there had been about 20 strikes, as well as artillery shelling.
"All this is in preparation to storm the village," Shahdawi said via Skype.
I don't trust Skype, Facebook, Twitter, or any other intelligence agency data collection and spy platforms. Sorry.
Also Saturday, state-run news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that troops have captured several towns in Hama province including Taibet al-Imam, Lweibdah and Zour Abo Zaid. It added that troops inflicted "gross losses" among opposition fighters.
Shahdawi confirmed that troops captured the areas in Hama province.
The government attack in Hama province is commanded by one of Syria's best-known officers, Col. Suheil al-Hassan, who is also known as "The Tiger." He was able to lift a monthslong siege imposed by rebels on the central prison of in Aleppo, Syria's largest city and former commercial center. Last year, his forces captured the strategic town of Khanaser between the central regions and Aleppo.
Syrian state media and activists said in April that Kfar Zeita was subjected to a poison gas attack that wounded scores of people. The government and the rebels blamed each other for the attack.
Related: U.S. Says Syria Still Has Chemical Weapons
(Blog editor sighs oooooh)
In southern Syria, the Observatory said opposition fighters including members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front captured late Friday the village of the Rawadi in the Quneitra region on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
They are the "moderate" opposition now.
The group said that rebels now control nearly 80 percent of the Quneitra region.
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"Islamic State says it executed British aid worker" Globe wires September 14, 2014
BEIRUT — Islamic State extremists released a video showing the death of British aid worker David Haines, who was abducted in Syria last year, and British Prime Minister David Cameron late Saturday condemned his slaying as ‘‘an act of pure evil.’’
Haines is the third Westerner beheaded in recent weeks by the Islamic State group, which has seized vast swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.
‘‘We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes,’’ Cameron said.
The video shows the aid worker, David Cawthorne Haines, kneeling on a bare hill under the open sky, in a landscape that appears identical to where two American journalists — James Foley of New Hampshire and Steven Sotloff of Florida — were killed by the group in back-to-back-executions in the past month.
So they are all already in the can waiting to be run, huh?
In the moments before his death, the 44-year-old Haines is forced to read a script, in which he blames his country’s leaders for his killing.
You know, like cable and network news broadcasters.
“I would like to declare that I hold you, David Cameron, entirely responsible for my execution,” he said. “You entered voluntarily into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic State. Unfortunately, it is we the British public that in the end will pay the price for our Parliament’s selfish decisions.”
So do I. Too bad EUSrael created them.
The video ends with the black-clad executioner, again in a British accent, identifying their next victim as Alan Henning, another British citizen.
Like I said, all these staged and scripted fakes have already been filmed and will be constantly rolled out in a real mind-phoque psyop.
The killing was a clear message to Britain, a key ally of the United States as it builds an international coalition to target the militant group.
Oh, I've lost my head!
Cameron returned to his residence at 10 Downing Street shortly after midnight. He is expected to chair a meeting of the government’s emergency response committee early Sunday.
Cameron’s government is a member of a core coalition of nations announced as NATO leaders met in Wales this month and sought to devise a strategy to address the growing threat from the Islamic State. That strategy includes plans to strengthen allies on the ground in Iraq and Syria and to conduct airstrikes against the militants.
Britain and the United States are among the only nations in the world that have held to a hard-line, no-concessions policy when dealing with kidnappings by terrorist groups.
Until this year, the Islamic State was holding close to two dozen foreigners in the same jail where Haines was imprisoned on the outskirts of the Syrian town of Raqqa. His European cellmates were released for ransom, one after another, according to one of the hostages held alongside him who was recently freed after his government paid a ransom.
Haines, who had a military background, was kidnapped 19 months ago in northern Syria and was held alongside an Italian coworker, Frederico Motka.
Both men worked for ACTED, a French aid group, and had traveled to Syria to try to help during the country’s horrific civil war. Their fates diverged based on their countries’ policies: Motka was released in May, one of 15 Europeans who were released from the same Islamic State-run jail for a ransom, according to a person familiar with the hostages’ detention and release.
Cameron this month ruled out paying a ransom for Haines. “It’s a desperately difficult situation,” he told Sky News. “We don’t pay ransoms to terrorists when they kidnap our citizens.”
Time for me to cut off this propaganda.
The SITE Intelligence Group, a US terrorism watchdog, reported the video, which was also posted online by users associated with the Islamic State group.
The video was titled ‘‘A Message to the Allies of America.’’ Haines’s purported killer tells the British government that its alliance with the United States will only ‘‘accelerate your destruction’’ and will drag the British people into ‘‘another bloody and unwinnable war.’’
Late Friday, the family of Haines had issued a public plea urging his captors to contact them.
In a short statement released through Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the family said: ‘‘We are asking those holding David to make contact with us.’’
Foley’s parents, of Rochester, N.H., last week announced the formation of the James W. Foley Legacy Fund to honor him.
PFFFT!
The fund will develop a resource center for families of American hostages and seek to foster global dialogue on governmental policies in hostage crises. It also will support American journalists reporting from conflict zones and promote educational opportunities for urban youth.
In Syria on Saturday, government warplanes and helicopter gunships struck targets in a central village in what appears to be preparations for a ground offensive on the rebel stronghold, activists said.
The air raids on Kfar Zeita, which has been under rebel control for nearly two years, came amid a major government offensive in the religiously mixed central province of Hama.
They came two days after troops captured the strategic town of Halfaya, better positioning government forces to defend nearby Christian and Alawite communities that support President Bashar Assad.
Central Syria is a communal patchwork home to large groups of Christians, Ismailis, and Alawites, who mainly back Assad, himself an Alawite. Many from these groups fear attacks on them by extremists among the mostly Sunni rebels.
That all sounds so familiar.
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"Cameron announces response plan to beheading of British aid worker" by Jenny Anderson | New York Times September 15, 2014
I see that byline and already know it's a piece of crap.
LONDON — After an emergency meeting Sunday with Britain’s top security and military officials to form a response to the beheading of a British aid worker by the Islamic State, Prime Minister David Cameron laid out a plan to support US military action in those two countries but made no commitment to a more vigorous military role.
What, or lapdog, 'er, watchdog, 'er, best friend not with us? WTF?!!!!
“This is not about British combat troops on the ground,” Cameron said. “It is about working with others to extinguish this terrorist threat.” He said British Tornadoes and surveillance aircraft had been helping with logistics and intelligence-gathering in the region.
Britain and the United States are among the only nations in the world that have held to a hard-line, no-concessions policy when dealing with kidnappings by terrorist groups.
Yeah, I heard that before.
There is a lot I could cut out of these if it were not for the shell game censorship and my not reading them until right now along with you, readers.
The execution of the aid worker, David Cawthorne Haines, was announced by the Islamic State in a video released Saturday night.
The video concluded with a death threat against another British hostage, Alan Henning, who was shown in the same kind of orange jumpsuit the other three were wearing when they were killed. Two American aid workers are also being held by the Islamic State.
Where did they get those suits, and yawn!
Btw, the showing of prisoners on video is a war crime.
Britain’s Foreign Office initially asked the press not to identify Henning as the captive shown on camera, but it dropped this request Sunday with his family’s approval. The family also distributed a photo of Henning.
The latest execution was a clear message to Britain, a vital ally of the United States as it builds an international coalition to target the Islamic State. The militant group has made major advances across Syria and northern Iraq in recent months.
I'm tired of the narrative, sorry.
In addition to supporting the United States, Cameron said Sunday, Britain would support the Iraqi government and continue to aid the Kurdish regional government, which he described as holding the front line against the Islamic State.
Britain would also work through the United Nations to bolster international efforts against the Islamic State, and reinforce domestic counterterrorism efforts aimed at preventing attacks and identifying and rooting out those planning them.
Like President Obama, Cameron tried to highlight the direct national security threat that would come from not acting. He said the Islamic State and its recruits have planned “and continue to plan attacks across Europe and in our country.”
Have you HAD ENOUGH YET, Englanders?
Time to SHOW THIS GUY the CHOPPING BLOCK!!!!
How do you say asshole in English?!!
He pledged that the British government would do “whatever it takes” to stamp out the extremist group and keep Britain safe. Calling Haines a hero, Cameron denounced Islamic State members as “monsters,” not Muslims.
His government must either be failing or under the control of Israel.
The Islamic State video shows Haines kneeling on a bare hill in a landscape that appears identical to the one where two American journalists were killed by the group in back-to-back executions in the past month.
Yeah, they were all shot at the same time.
In the moments before his death, Haines, 44, is forced to read a script in which he blames his country’s leaders for his killing.
“I would like to declare that I hold you, David Cameron, entirely responsible for my execution,” he said. “You entered voluntarily into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic State.” He added: “Unfortunately, it is we the British public that in the end will pay the price for our Parliament’s selfish decisions.”
Yeah, I heard ya.
The video ends with the black-clad executioner, speaking in English with what sounded like a British accent, identifying the Islamic State’s next victim as Henning.
SITE Intelligence, which tracks jihadist groups, said the executioner appeared to be the same man who killed the American hostages, James Foley of New Hampshire and Steven J. Sotloff of Florida.
Then it's all garbage, all made at same time, these Hollywood-Style videos! Talk about in your face!
Britain is one of a “core coalition” of nations announced as NATO leaders met in Wales this month and sought to devise a strategy to address the Islamic State’s growing threat, including plans to strengthen allies in Iraq and Syria and conduct airstrikes against the militants.
Obama announced a major expansion of the military campaign against the Islamic State last week, including airstrikes in Syria.
Well, it was a limited expansion(?).
The beheadings of Foley, reported Aug. 19, and Sotloff, reported Sept. 2, followed the start of a campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Iraq.
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And they have another hostage video?
"British hostage warns West in new ISIS video" by Ishaan Tharoor | Washington Post September 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Islamic State released a new video Thursday featuring a captive British journalist, seated behind a desk, explaining the group’s message and warning that America and its allies are foolishly heading into another unwinnable war.
What is foolish is continuing to read this shit.
The Internet video, titled “Lend Me Your Ears,” shows the journalist, John Cantlie, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and apparently reading from a script, recalling how he was captured by the militant group also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL after he arrived in Syria in November 2012.
This is ALL a SCRIPT!
Meanwhile....
The NSA has found their servers?
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"Jihadi ideologue calls for freeing British hostage" by Maamoun Youssef | Associated Press September 21, 2014
CAIRO — A renowned jihadist ideologue on Saturday urged the Islamic State group to release British aid worker Alan Henning, saying Islam forbids harming non-Muslims who work with relief agencies.
Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi, who was released by Jordan in June after serving a five-year sentence on terrorism charges, said in a statement posted on his website that non-Muslims who aid needy Muslims should be protected.
The Islamic State group has released grisly videos showing the beheading of two American journalists and a British aid worker.
It has threatened to kill Henning, a British former taxi driver who was taken in December shortly after crossing into Syria from Turkey in an aid convoy, in retaliation for US and European military action against it.
Also known as Essam al-Barqawi, Maqdisi was the mentor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed in a US airstrike in 2006.
OMG, this guy just ANOTHER WESTERN AGENT!
Maqdisi said Henning worked with a charitable organization led by Muslims that sent several aid convoys to help the Syrian people. ‘‘Is it reasonable that his reward is being kidnapped and slaughtered? . . . He should be rewarded with thanks.’’
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"Fighters from UK fed up with militants; Disillusioned but cannot go home" by Griff Witte | Washington Post September 14, 2014
So am I.
LONDON — The London-accented militant who delivered blood-curdling threats to the West before apparently beheading two American journalists and a British aid worker, has become, for most Britons, the masked face of foreign fighters in Syria.
PFFFFFFT!
But more typical, analysts say, may be the Brit who recently called home from the front lines to say he is fed up.
‘‘The whole jihad was turned upside-down,’’ the militant recently told Shiraz Maher, a senior researcher for the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London. ‘‘Muslims are fighting Muslims. I didn’t come for that.’’
Kind of tells you who is REALLY BEHIND the TERRORISTS, doesn't it?
The fighter’s disillusionment, experts say, has become a recurring theme among some of the thousands of young men and women from around the globe who have answered the Islamic State’s call for holy war but have found the reality is significantly less glorious than promised.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
I LOVE LAUGHING on a Sunday morning. Thanks, Globe!!
For those trying to stanch the flow of fighters and combat extremism here in Britain, it’s a perspective that could be the antidote to Islamic State propaganda.
HA-HA-HA-HA.
And yet it’s one that is seldom if ever heard here, in part because of government policy that focuses on keeping Brits who have gone to war from returning home — and locking them up if they even try.
‘‘A lot of them feel trapped by the Islamic State not letting them go, and by the British government not letting them back,’’ said Richard Barrett, a former counterterrorism director with Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6. ‘‘But if you want people to understand that it’s bloody terrible out there, you have to hear from these people.’’
The government has good reason to be extremely wary of allowing former fighters to come home after war-zone experiences that have left many more radical — and possibly determined to strike the West.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain recently called the prospect that they could return and carry out attacks here ‘‘a greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before.’’
That has passed for the moment -- NOT!
