Daily Mail: Islamic State ruler 'kept 26-year-old American air worker as his personal sex slave' before she was killed in February
* The parents of Kayla Mueller revealed Friday that their daughter was repeatedly raped by ISIS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before her death
* ISIS announced the 26-year-old's death on February 10, saying she had been killed in a coalition air strike
* However, ISIS knew that the U.S. was trying to rescue the aid worker and just how she died has never been confirmed
* Two Yezedi girls, 16 and 18, who escaped the compound where Kayla was being held, revealed details of the sexual abuse
* Kayla would have turned 27 years old on Friday
Before her death earlier this year, 26-year-old Kayla Mueller was a sex slave for the top leader of the Islamic State, the American aid worker's parents have revealed.
In a Friday interview with ABC on what would have been Kayla's 27th birthday, her parents say that they were informed by government officials that their daughter was repeatedly raped by the caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
WNU Editor: There are two things about this story that sticks out for me. (1) This story is being covered in every international news outlet. (2) I cannot even imagine what the Mueller parents are going through.
More News On Reports That Islamic State Leader Baghdadi 'Raped' American Aid Worker Kayla Mueller Before Her Death
ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say -- ABC News
U.S. woman hostage raped by Islamic State leader before death: ABC News -- Reuters
Kayla Mueller forced to have sex with Isis leader before her death, officials say -- The Guardian
Islamic State leader Baghdadi 'raped' Kayla Mueller -- BBC
The Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi viewed women held captive at a Syrian house as his private property, and raped a number of them, including the US hostage Kayla Mueller. -- The Independent
Family: Islamic State leader raped American hostage Kayla Mueller, who was later killed -- FOX News/AP
Hostage Kayla Mueller Was Raped by ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Family Told -- NBC News
Leader of Islamic State raped American hostage -- Washington Post
10 comments:
Time to put boots on the ground
"Time to put boots on the ground" - Anonymous
"Yes and the same for the americans with the talibans" - Anonymous
Why put boots on the ground? If this is the same Anonymous, explain why there would not be more blowback.
With this story, al-baghdadi has "scored" special infamy; raising the PR-value of his head enormously.
This new "enemy of humanity" is a brillant PR-price.
Just imagine Putin delivering the head (and maybe the instrument of crime in this case) of this guy to the iraqi government. What would this do to the efforts of demonizing Russia and its president?
Thus I see this as some sort of incentive for limited boots on the ground.
How on Earth would Putin do that? Would he ride there in person on his horse, shirtless, and take the IS out singlehanded, action-hero style? :)
:-D
I think even for Kim Yong Un it would be quite an unprecedented boom in positive PR (for a change) if he´d have the chance to score al-baghdadis head.
Just imagine this half-man-half-god would be able to demonstrate the indisputable superiority of his regime/ideology to all the world, by having his special forces grab and "process" al-baghdadi - and thus ridding the world.
BTW - Daniel, you are familiar with the term of "example"?
Beyond this, I never implied Russia would have the capabilities - I just used Russia/Putin as example for having a bad PR that could be affected by the PR-potential Mr. ISIL has (had) built for him.
But your spirited contribution suggests that you approach propaganda/PR from a different angle.
Maybe it could help to meditate on the meaning of: "just imagine" or the grammar term of "conditional sentence" and its implications. For the latter Wikipedia may be useful as a primer.
:-)
"I think even for Kim Yong Un it would be quite an unprecedented boom"
It would fool some people. but some people want to be fooled. Would it be a head fake or turning over a new lead.
With the high PR-value I attribute to this guys head and ... instruments of abuse of female prisoners, I feel forced to doubt any future claim of him possibly having expired.
With North Korea I´d be quite confident that any international examination of any presented remains would be quite open and supremely detailed.
And Pablo Escobar bankrolled welfare in Medellin. DId he do it because he was an all around good guy or he just wanted the locals on his side? He was good to his out group and Hell to the outgroup. So if he for example had taken out someone like Baghdadi, it just muddies the waters.
So if Kim Jong On kills Baghdadi does that wipe out 200,00 starvation deaths in a decade or all basically the continuous mass death in north Korea?
Well, PR and psychological warfare have proven the potential to affect opposing groups, and the pissed reaction of North Korea to the loudspeaker-broadcasts from the south seems to confirm this.
I do not want to imply that al-baghdadis head could turn North Koreas demi-god into a light-figure for the whole rest of the world, but it is not so easy to demonize someone who has done a certified "service to humanity", or s.th. that could be displayed as such.
To indoctrinate the own "herd" with propaganda, strategically directed wellfare and torture is not too much of a skill or new thing. What counts, is the effect ones propaganda has on the opposing sides people; and to reach "hostiles", you need to associate your cause to emotional values they hold. So, if everyone really hates al-baghdadi - his killer will do a thing many feel good about; thus raising the emotionally held opinion towards the one who did this.
This would be quite alike the PR-challenge the christian church would face, if while a ... catastrophe at sea with lots of people drowning, a huge Satan-figure would appear over the scene, mutter something about "preaching kindness, my ass" and "god of love" while picking every single shipwrecked person from the water and delivering them to safety.
With - say - a thousand witnesses and 50 cell-phone videos, this would be some sort of "direct hit with following internal munition-explosions" for the dogma of christianity. Any preaching that Satan is the source of all evil after this event, would have to have a veeery high degree of rhetorical creativity - and still retain a seriously good chance to fail.
My enemy who is the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
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