Monday, November 17, 2014

The Islamic State's Last American Hostage Is A Woman

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A 26-Year-Old Woman Is ISIS’s Last American Hostage -- Daily Beast

The extremists didn’t show her off in their latest snuff film. And her family doesn’t want her name released. But what is known about ISIS’s remaining U.S. captive is heartbreaking.

With ISIS’s brutal murder of Peter Kassig, a 26-year-old American aid worker who dedicated his life to the plight of Syrian refugees, the militant group has one more U.S. citizen remaining in its clutches, according to current and former U.S. officials, as well as individuals involved in efforts to free the Americans.

The hostage is the only American woman held by the militant group. She is the same age as Kassig, and, like him, was kidnapped while trying to help people whose lives have been upended by the long Syrian civil war. She was particularly moved to help children who have been orphaned and separated from their families. The woman was taken in August 2013, along with a group of other aid workers who have reportedly been released.

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My Comment: It would be a PR disaster for them. The only ones who would be attracted to their cause would be the truly psychopathic .... but that may be (in the end) their intention.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Democrats are going to lose the Soccer Mom vote.

Only using 2% of your air power to defeat ISIS, because you say the other 98% is busy elsewhere, won't work.

Actually a percentage of that 98% is busy training, deterrence, maintenance, etc.

But it is a hard case for the progressives to make when they have painted deterrence as aggression.