ISIS Releases Beheading Kurdish Fighter
Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah
29 August 2014
The Islamic State released another graphic video Thursday, this one claiming to show the beheading of a Kurdish peshmerga fighter in Mosul, Iraq.
A video has surfaced supposedly showing Islamic State militants beheading a Peshmerga member in Mosul. Fourteen other alleged Peshmerga members in the video, all dressed in prison garb called on Kurdistan to end their connections with U.S. forces.
The video then cuts to three masked men dressed in black standing in front of a mosque with another man wearing an orange jumpsuit kneeling in front of them. They then behead him.
The video was posted on YouTube and is translated into Kurdish instead of English, clearly targeting a different audience this time. It's called a "Message To Barzani," referring to Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region. ISIS militants warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said.
The United States has carried out a wave of airstrikes against the jihadists in northern Iraq, helping Kurdish forces to claw back ground lost to the militants earlier this month.
It comes after the group posted a video on YouTube showing the American journalist James Foley being beheaded by a militant, who said his killing was in response to air strikes. The fighter, who is believed to be British, also threatened the life of another journalist, Steven Sotloff.
Video footage posted on Thursday appeared to show Syrian soldiers being marched through the desert in their underwear after Isis seized the Tabqa air base in Raqqa.
The jihadists control a vast swath of territory straddling Iraq and Syria where their abuses have sparked an international outcry.
Meanwhile, United States began to conduct exploration and surveillance planes over Syria after the approval of President Barack Obama on it, according to the Associated Press, in a move that could pave the way to the air strikes against ISIS.
Defense officials said Monday evening that the Pentagon was sending in manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights over Syria, using a combination of aircraft, including drones and possibly U2 spy planes. Mr. Obama approved the flights over the weekend, a senior administration official said.
U.S. officials said the United States is preparing military options in order to put pressure on "Islamic state" in Syrian territory, but stressed that they have not yet made any decision to expand U.S military action except limited air strikes taking place in Iraq.
President Barack Obama sought for limited military campaign in Iraq, focusing on "the protection of U.S. diplomats and civilians under immediate threat." But officials have not ruled out a military escalation on the Islamic State, which has increased from overt threats to the United States.
Sources
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-a-message-in-blood-video-shows-beheading-of-kurdish-man-in-iraq-9698455.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-says-it-beheaded-kurdish-peshmerga-fighter-graphic-video-1673054
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/isis-video-beheading-kurdish-fighter
29 August 2014
The Islamic State released another graphic video Thursday, this one claiming to show the beheading of a Kurdish peshmerga fighter in Mosul, Iraq.
A video has surfaced supposedly showing Islamic State militants beheading a Peshmerga member in Mosul. Fourteen other alleged Peshmerga members in the video, all dressed in prison garb called on Kurdistan to end their connections with U.S. forces.
The video then cuts to three masked men dressed in black standing in front of a mosque with another man wearing an orange jumpsuit kneeling in front of them. They then behead him.
The video was posted on YouTube and is translated into Kurdish instead of English, clearly targeting a different audience this time. It's called a "Message To Barzani," referring to Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region. ISIS militants warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said.
The United States has carried out a wave of airstrikes against the jihadists in northern Iraq, helping Kurdish forces to claw back ground lost to the militants earlier this month.
It comes after the group posted a video on YouTube showing the American journalist James Foley being beheaded by a militant, who said his killing was in response to air strikes. The fighter, who is believed to be British, also threatened the life of another journalist, Steven Sotloff.
Video footage posted on Thursday appeared to show Syrian soldiers being marched through the desert in their underwear after Isis seized the Tabqa air base in Raqqa.
The jihadists control a vast swath of territory straddling Iraq and Syria where their abuses have sparked an international outcry.
Meanwhile, United States began to conduct exploration and surveillance planes over Syria after the approval of President Barack Obama on it, according to the Associated Press, in a move that could pave the way to the air strikes against ISIS.
Defense officials said Monday evening that the Pentagon was sending in manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights over Syria, using a combination of aircraft, including drones and possibly U2 spy planes. Mr. Obama approved the flights over the weekend, a senior administration official said.
U.S. officials said the United States is preparing military options in order to put pressure on "Islamic state" in Syrian territory, but stressed that they have not yet made any decision to expand U.S military action except limited air strikes taking place in Iraq.
President Barack Obama sought for limited military campaign in Iraq, focusing on "the protection of U.S. diplomats and civilians under immediate threat." But officials have not ruled out a military escalation on the Islamic State, which has increased from overt threats to the United States.
Sources
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-a-message-in-blood-video-shows-beheading-of-kurdish-man-in-iraq-9698455.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-says-it-beheaded-kurdish-peshmerga-fighter-graphic-video-1673054
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/isis-video-beheading-kurdish-fighter
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