BLOOD, THREAT, OUTRAGE AND A GAME OF GOLF THIRD BEHEADING IN ROW; IS ISIS REACTING TO OBAMA’S SPEECH?

14-9-2014 1.20PM IST


Medhaj News: Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday morning which allegedly showed the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.

This is the third beheading after two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff in past months. The agencies could not immediately identify the footage, however, the images were consistent with that of the filmed executions of the other two journalists.

Haines, a 44-year-old father of two from Perth in Scotland, was kidnapped last year while working for the French agency ACTED.

The video entitled, “A Message to the Allies of America,” opened with UK Prime Minister David Cameron talking about working with the Iraqi government and allied Kurdish Peshmerga forces to defeat Islamic State.

“This British man has to pay the price for your promise, Cameron, to arm the Peshmerga against the Islamic State,” said a masked man dressed in black with a British accent, standing over Haines, who was shown kneeling and wearing an orange jumpsuit.

The video then showed the beheading of the kneeling man.

At the end of the video, another hostage was shown and the masked man said he would be killed if Cameron continues to support the fight against Islamic State.

After the video was released President Obama condemned the ‘barbaric’ murder of David and pledged to stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with United Kingdom.

"The United States strongly condemns the barbaric murder of UK citizen David Haines by the terrorist group ISIL. Our hearts go out to the family of Mr. Haines and to the people of the United Kingdom," the statement read.

Obama said the U.S. will work with Britain and a broad coalition of nations to bring to justice those who committed what he called an "outrageous act."

Repeating a message from his Wednesday night address laying out a strategy for attacking the Islamic State group, Obama said the coalition will degrade and destroy the threat the extremists pose to people around the world.

The back to back barbaric murder of journalists and aid workers is just the cruelty of ISIS or is it something else? Why is that a beheading takes place after President Obama’s voice turns shrill and he talks of airstrikes and bombing the Islamic state?

Recently Obama said that if this killing continues US will bombard Syria. Sometimes words hit harder than missiles.

The group he once ridiculed as being like the al Qaeda junior varsity has achieved what Osama bin Laden never did: It controls a huge territory in Syria and Iraq. It is so bloodthirsty that some jihadist groups shun its brand of barbarism as too indiscriminate.

And now the group threatens America by saying ‘We will drown you in blood’.

But Obama seems unaffected with this. It seems as if he doesn’t care what is happening in the world. Last time, when Foley was beheaded, Obama continued on his vacation to play golf.

Is David’s beheading a ploy to force the UK bombing ISIS as well?