So do I; more shoveling to do, and it's still coming down hard with no let up in sight:
"Video purports to show journalist’s beheading" by Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press January 31, 2015
TOKYO — An online video released on militant websites Saturday night purported to show an Islamic State militant beheading Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
Related: The Kenji Goto Psyop Draws to a Close with Another Faked Video
"Left unclear by the video, which was posted on a Twitter account associated with the Islamic State’s media organization, Al Furqan, was the fate of Kasasbeh, the Jordanian pilot."
They lopped off another one, 'eh?
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed that Japan will not give in to terrorism and will continue to provide humanitarian aid to countries fighting the Islamic State extremists.
I'm sure the economically struggling Japanese people will be glad to read that.
The fates of Goto and the Jordanian pilot, Lieutenant Muath Kaseasbeh, had been linked by the militants, but Saturday’s video made no mention of the airman. Jordan’s government spokesman, Mohammed al-Momani, declined comment....
Saturday’s video, highlighted by militant sympathizers on social media sites, bore the symbol of the Islamic State’s Al Furqan media arm.
Though the video could not be immediately independently verified by the Associated Press, it conformed to other beheading videos released by the extremists, who now control about a third of both Syria and neighboring Iraq....
The video, called ‘‘A Message to the Government of Japan,’’ featured a militant who looked and sounded like a militant with a British accent who has taken part in other beheading videos by the Islamic State group. Goto, kneeling in an orange prison jumpsuit, said nothing in the roughly one-minute-long video.
They shot them all at once.
‘‘Abe,’’ the militant says in the video, referring to the Japanese prime minister, ‘‘because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin.’’
Officials in Japan and the United States said they were trying to confirm the authenticity of the video....
‘‘We stand in solidarity with our ally Japan,’’ said Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the White House’s National Security Council....
The hostage drama began last week....
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Related: ISIS Shoots Down Jordanian Jet
NDU:
"Japan has ordered tighter security for airports and other public transportation and at Japanese facilities overseas, such as embassies and schools, ‘‘as international society seeks to restore peace and stability in the Middle East . . .’’
What, after spending the last 12 years upsetting all that with invasions and covert overthrows?
