Islamic State claims it executed American photojournalist

[iammalcolmx]

Aug 20, 2014 8:42:06 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

I know his family. Not well, but still.

Fuck you, lys. Fuck.You.

And ESF? I don't even know what to say. That wasn't funny. Seriously.

I don't think she was joking she was making a timely point.

[2curlydogs]

Aug 20, 2014 8:52:21 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:42:06 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

I know his family. Not well, but still.

Fuck you, lys. Fuck.You.

And ESF? I don't even know what to say. That wasn't funny. Seriously.

I don't think she was joking she was making a timely point.

I consider it in poor taste and badly timed.

But I'm shattered by this news. So I'm out. 

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 20, 2014 8:43:56 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

I just...why now? I don't get it. He'd been prisoner over 600 days. Why now? What fucking purpose does it serve? Is ISIS starting to feel the pressure and getting desperate?

Fuck. FUcking Fuck fuck fuck.

I have the same question too. My theory is that because new stories about ISIS have increased recently, they figured it was time to kill one of their captives publicly to assert their authority in the region and give themselves and their actions more publicity. I can only imagine whether Foley might have thought after 600 days of them keeping him alive he'd eventually make it out alive.

I am not sure the British accent has been deemed authentic but the British PM and the authorities there are investigating.

[heyjude]

Aug 20, 2014 8:50:37 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:45:06 GMT -5 heyjude said:

I do. Her comment pissed me the fuck off. I'm not in a zen place with her right now. Sorry.

Who is? That's the point.  But if your desired outcome is to be mad and start cussing, KOKO.

Thanks for the permission.

[jillboston]

Come on guys. Let's not fight today.

[iammalcolmx]

Aug 20, 2014 8:58:37 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Come on guys. Let's not fight today.

Well I tried to calm someone down in this thread and it didn't go well. Beware.

[jillboston]

Aug 20, 2014 9:05:02 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:58:37 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Come on guys. Let's not fight today.

Well I tried to calm someone down in this thread and it didn't go well. Beware.

I hear you. Just a tough couple of weeks all around.

[heyjude]

Aug 20, 2014 9:05:02 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:58:37 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Come on guys. Let's not fight today.

Well I tried to calm someone down in this thread and it didn't go well. Beware.

Now you are just being patronizing. It's not your job to tell someone to calm down. That's very dismissive of my emotions about this. Now you are just making me grumpier. So good work there.

[heyjude]

And NOW Lys is laughing!

[racegrrl714]

Aug 19, 2014 18:56:06 GMT -5 mmp said:

Don't even start me on this topic. My cousin was also kidnapped and then killed in Iraq.
I hope for the family's sake they get an answer ASAP. It's horrible.
Beyond horrible.

**HUGS mmp, Cicero, and 2curlydogs**

eta: because I posted before I saw the rest of the thread.. Sadness all around us.

[Cicero]

2curlydogs Many hugs. If you ever want to talk feel free to shoot me a pm.

[iammalcolmx]

Aug 20, 2014 9:12:02 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Aug 20, 2014 9:05:02 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Well I tried to calm someone down in this thread and it didn't go well. Beware.

Now you are just being patronizing. It's not your job to tell someone to calm down. That's very dismissive of my emotions about this. Now you are just making me grumpier. So good work there.

You know what I was trying to be helpful to you because generally people don't like being unhappy. However how could I have forgotten your emotions? These are similar to your AVI you would rather be a angry perpetual wet blanket on this board speaking in the voice of Charlie Browns teacher. That's nothing knew. I told you to KOKO so go take some seats in your macrocosm of misery. 

[gpw]

Aug 20, 2014 8:30:13 GMT -5 lys said:

Initial report was out on Tuesday night - with no confirmation at that time.
It has since been confirmed

So much for being JV as Obama has so dismissively stated before.

Fuck you, lys.  Bad timing.  Per usual.  

[penguingrrl]

Cicero, mmp and 2curlydogs I'm so sorry.

What devastating news. And what a brave and honorable man. Risking your life to get the truth out is incredible. Why a tragedy.

[iammalcolmx]

mmp  Cicero I am sorry.

[heyjude]

Aug 20, 2014 9:35:10 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Aug 20, 2014 9:12:02 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Now you are just being patronizing. It's not your job to tell someone to calm down. That's very dismissive of my emotions about this. Now you are just making me grumpier. So good work there.

You know what I was trying to be helpful to you because generally people don't like being unhappy. However how could I have forgotten your emotions? These are similar to your AVI you would rather be a angry perpetual wet blanket on this board speaking in the voice of Charlie Browns teacher. That's nothing knew. I told you to KOKO so go take some seats in your macrocosm of misery. 

[mmp]

Aug 20, 2014 8:56:52 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:43:56 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

I just...why now? I don't get it. He'd been prisoner over 600 days. Why now? What fucking purpose does it serve? Is ISIS starting to feel the pressure and getting desperate?

Fuck. FUcking Fuck fuck fuck.

I have the same question too. My theory is that because new stories about ISIS have increased recently, they figured it was time to kill one of their captives publicly to assert their authority in the region and give themselves and their actions more publicity. I can only imagine whether Foley might have thought after 600 days of them keeping him alive he'd eventually make it out alive.

I am not sure the British accent has been deemed authentic but the British PM and the authorities there are investigating.

I heard on the radio Foley was kidnapped the previous year in Libya and was released. I was flipping channels so no source.

Regarding the time in captivity....my cousin was kidnapped by coworkers, but we think he was sold/ traded/whatever to other terror groups. Who in the hell knows what happened over there, we will never know, but the whole ordeal was 523 days.

I hope to hell they spare the second guy they have, but I'm not hopeful.

Many thanks for your condolences.

[cinnamoncox]

Aug 20, 2014 8:41:55 GMT -5 jillboston said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:34:58 GMT -5 cinnamoncox said:

Sorry if this is a stupid question but what is JV?

If I had to guess I would say Junior Varsity vs. Varsity.

I've heard it used like that, but I'm failing to see the connection between a terrorist group, a beheading, Obama, and Junior Varsity.

[josieposy]

[jeaniebueller]

How awful.

[2curlydogs]

Aug 20, 2014 9:54:36 GMT -5 mmp said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:56:52 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I have the same question too. My theory is that because new stories about ISIS have increased recently, they figured it was time to kill one of their captives publicly to assert their authority in the region and give themselves and their actions more publicity. I can only imagine whether Foley might have thought after 600 days of them keeping him alive he'd eventually make it out alive.

I am not sure the British accent has been deemed authentic but the British PM and the authorities there are investigating.

I heard on the radio Foley was kidnapped the previous year in Libya and was released. I was flipping channels so no source.

Regarding the time in captivity....my cousin was kidnapped by coworkers, but we think he was sold/ traded/whatever to other terror groups. Who in the hell knows what happened over there, we will never know, but the whole ordeal was 523 days.

I hope to hell they spare the second guy they have, but I'm not hopeful.

Many thanks for your condolences.

Yes he was. He was released after 44 days.

I'm going to drop this here. It's an article he wrote after that kidnapping about his phone call home to his mother.

www.marquette.edu/magazine/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1318951203&archive

[jillboston]

Aug 20, 2014 9:55:55 GMT -5 cinnamoncox said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:41:55 GMT -5 jillboston said:

If I had to guess I would say Junior Varsity vs. Varsity.

I've heard it used like that, but I'm failing to see the connection between a terrorist group, a beheading, Obama, and Junior Varsity.

I would say it is quite typical of a lys post here. Nonsensical, practically unreadable but always, always, with a topping of Obama sucks.

[jillboston]

Aug 20, 2014 9:54:36 GMT -5 mmp said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:56:52 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I have the same question too. My theory is that because new stories about ISIS have increased recently, they figured it was time to kill one of their captives publicly to assert their authority in the region and give themselves and their actions more publicity. I can only imagine whether Foley might have thought after 600 days of them keeping him alive he'd eventually make it out alive.

I am not sure the British accent has been deemed authentic but the British PM and the authorities there are investigating.

I heard on the radio Foley was kidnapped the previous year in Libya and was released. I was flipping channels so no source.

Regarding the time in captivity....my cousin was kidnapped by coworkers, but we think he was sold/ traded/whatever to other terror groups. Who in the hell knows what happened over there, we will never know, but the whole ordeal was 523 days.

I hope to hell they spare the second guy they have, but I'm not hopeful.

Many thanks for your condolences.

that sounds like a nightmare mmp. My condolences.

[2curlydogs]

Aug 20, 2014 9:54:36 GMT -5 mmp said:

Aug 20, 2014 8:56:52 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I have the same question too. My theory is that because new stories about ISIS have increased recently, they figured it was time to kill one of their captives publicly to assert their authority in the region and give themselves and their actions more publicity. I can only imagine whether Foley might have thought after 600 days of them keeping him alive he'd eventually make it out alive.

I am not sure the British accent has been deemed authentic but the British PM and the authorities there are investigating.

I heard on the radio Foley was kidnapped the previous year in Libya and was released. I was flipping channels so no source.

Regarding the time in captivity....my cousin was kidnapped by coworkers, but we think he was sold/ traded/whatever to other terror groups. Who in the hell knows what happened over there, we will never know, but the whole ordeal was 523 days.

I hope to hell they spare the second guy they have, but I'm not hopeful.

Many thanks for your condolences.

Jesus, mmp. That's awful. I'm so sorry.

[gpw]

mmp, I am so sorry. That is so awful.

[underwaterrhymes]

That's terrible, mmp. I'm so sorry.

[iammalcolmx]

mmp that is horrifying. I am so very sorry.

[summer]

Yes, lys all of Iraq is Obama's fault.  All of life is.  Every situation that is going to shit? He's behind it.  We get it.  You good now? I have to admire your Westboro Baptist Church-like ability to stay on message. 


Here's more on the story. 
news.yahoo.com/obama--heartbroken--by-foley-beheading-but-vows-no-let-up-in-u-s--operations-172817696.html

President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared himself “heartbroken” by the beheading of U.S. journalist Jim Foley by ISIL extremists but defiantly vowed to press on with American military operations to cut the group’s “cancer” out of the Middle East.



“Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world,” the president said from the makeshift workspace for media covering his Martha’s Vineyard vacation.



Obama said he had spoken to Foley’s parents and told them “we are all heartbroken at their loss and join them in honoring Jim and all that he did.”



His remarks came a day after the release online of a stomach-turning video showing a black-masked jihadi fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) beheading Foley in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against the group in Iraq. The video also warned that the extremists would murder American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff if Obama did not halt the bombardments.



“The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is done and we act against ISIL standing alongside others,” Obama said.

The president also had a direct message to American allies in the Gulf region that have reportedly been funding and arming ISIL to fight forces loyal to Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad.



“From governments and peoples across the Middle East, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so it does not spread,” he underlined. “A group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.”



Obama spoke shortly after the National Security Council disclosed that American intelligence officials had confirmed the authenticity of the video.



Across the Atlantic, British officials were scrambling to identify Foley’s masked killer, who spoke in English with what sounded like a British accent.



British Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his vacation to discuss the situation in person with top aides, and his office called the reporter’s slaying “shocking and depraved.”



It was not the first time that extremists claiming to champion Islam killed an American journalist. In February 2002, a Pakistani group released a video showing the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.



A day after the release of that video, then-President George W. Bush spoke out during a trip to China, saying all Americans were “sad and angry.”



“Those who would threaten Americans, those who would engage in criminal, barbaric acts, need to know that these crimes only hurt their cause and only deepen the resolve of the United States of America to rid to world of these agents of terror,” Bush said.

[StrawberryBlondie]

mmp, that's terrible. I'm so sorry.