The White House’s National Security Council confirmed Wednesday that an online video of U.S. journalist James Foley being executed by a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was authentic.
“The U.S. Intelligence Community has analyzed the recently released video showing U.S. citizens James Foley and Steven Sotloff,” NSC spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. “We have reached the judgment that this video is authentic. We will continue to provide updates as they are available.”
At the end of the same video, ISIS showed missing U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff. One of the group’s members threatened in the video that Sotloff would be killed next unless the United States ended its airstrikes against ISIS.
With this grotesque act ISIS rejects its religious caliphate pretensions and reinforces its crude animal ignorance.
I’d task killer robots and hungry dogs with their dissolution, stat.
Please don’t compare animals to these people. What they did is beyond grotesque but let us not forget we have people in this country who have committed grotesque crimes too.
Another reminder of what the West is dealing with when confronted with the nihilistic movements of ISIL, Hezbollah, and Hamas. They sport a sheen of religious principles, but al they are after is the death of all who do not agree with them and the enrichment of their leaders. In the end, there is not talking with them. Heaven help those misfortunate enough to live under their rule and too weak or irresolute to shake them off.