President Obama says US doing everything to rescue woman held by IS group
[Ynet] President Barack Obama
Because I won ...
on Sunday said the US is doing everything in its power to rescue a 26-year-old woman held by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, speaking in a wide-ranging interview also covering politics and a measles outbreak.
Obama's comments to NBC came a day after a Japanese journalist held by the snuffies was purportedly beheaded.
Obama said he has watched videos of hostages being beheaded. "Every morning I get a presidential daily briefing, and it gives me a pretty clear sense of the terrible stuff that's happening. And it's part of the reason why we have to be so vigilant and so aggressive in going after a vicious organization like ISIL," Obama said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-02-03 |