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IS Reportedly Tries To Sell Slain US Hostage’s Body For $1 Million
[IsraelTimes] The jihadist group the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... is trying to sell the body of US journalist James Foley for a reported $1 million. The bully boy terrorist organization executed Foley in a gruesome beheading video in August. Two more US citizens — American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig — have followed, as well as two UK nationals David Haine and Alan Henning, both aid workers as well. Foley's was the first in a series of the grisly, publicized executions that shocked many in the West. British journalist John Cantile and an unnamed 26-year-old American woman remain in IS captivity. IS offered to provide a DNA sample and transfer Foley's body to Turkey, BuzzFeed reported Wednesday, in a piece detailing exchanges with "middlemen with ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)," using another name for the marauding group which has murdered and plundered its way to controlling large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. One of the "middlemen," a Syrian rebel, told BuzzFeed he was approached by an IS commanders seeking to make the deal with the US government or with Foley's family. The man, who reportedly managed hostage negotiations with the al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front, said the motivation was to provide closure for the family, "a humanity case" Another intermediary was much more to the point, telling the popular site: "This is business." A third point-person mentioned in the report was an official in the US-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... rebel group, who urged the site not to publish details of a potential deal for fear it could be sabotaged. "It will be like a shame for the US government," the FSA official told BuzzFeed. "People will ask why you brought the body but you didn't bring him when he was alive." The Islamic State has made a lucrative business of hostage taking — reportedly trading 15 European nationals and others for between $35-45 million earlier this year (and killing the ones whose governments would not negotiate) — but this report indicates the terror group has turned a revolting new page. "They were trying to negotiate (a ransom deal) for his freedom before they beheaded him, and after beheading him, they are trying to sell his body," the FSA official said, according to the report. The group is not starved for funds, however, with its ransom business, black market oil sales and tax collection raking in up to $800 million per year, according to reports. Just this week, analysts said the terror organization spent no less than an estimated $200,000 on a propaganda video that featured the beheading of 22 Syrian soldiers, and that took between four and six hours to film. The propaganda video, released on November 16 and called "Though the Unbelievers Despise It," shows the simultaneous executions of the Syrian soldiers as well as the beheading of Kassig. In the video, the killers appear to be led by a masked "Jihadi John," the British IS krazed killer believed to be responsible for the beheadings of Kassig, as well as Foley, Sotloff, Haine and Henning. In light of the large numbers of radicalized foreigners who have joined the Islamic State, analysts from all over the world have been studying the clip in an effort to identify the rest of the killers. A recent UN report estimates an "unprecedented" influx of 15,000 imported muscle from 80 countries, who have joined the Islamic State's relentless campaigns in Iraq and Syria. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-11 |
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