US hostage Kassig executed by IS

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Peter Kassig ,  an aid worker  who formed a company to help the Syrian refugees, was reportedly beheaded by the  Islamic State
Peter Kassig , an aid worker who formed a company to help the Syrian refugees, was reportedly beheaded by the Islamic State

A video posted online claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

In the video, a masked militant stands over a severed head which he says is that of Mr Kassig.

The US says it is working to determine the authenticity of the video, which also shows a mass killing of Syrian troops.

Mr Kassig, also known as Peter, was captured last year.

His family, who live in the US state of Indiana, said they were awaiting confirmation of the reports about their “treasured son” and had nothing more to say at this time.

If his death is confirmed, the 26-year-old will be the fifth Western hostage to have been killed by IS, following the murders of British men Alan Henning and David Haines, and US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

The US National Security Council said the intelligence community was working as quickly as possible to determine the latest video’s authenticity

“If confirmed, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American aid worker and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends,” NSC spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said.

One of the masked militants pictured in the video appears in size and dress to resemble so-called Jihadi John, a man believed be from Britain who carried out the killing of the four Western hostages.

The video emerged on the same day as an unconfirmed report in Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper suggested he had been injured in a recent US-led air strike on a gathering of IS leaders.

British PM David Cameron said he was “horrified by the cold blooded murder” and said that Islamic State militants “have again shown their depravity”.

Syrian physician Ahmed Obeid, left, is among the group of friends who gathered in Tripoli, Lebanon, to implore Islamic State militants to spare the life of aid worker Peter Kassig. (Bilal Hussein / Associated Press)
Syrian physician Ahmed Obeid, left, is among the group of friends who gathered in Tripoli, Lebanon, to implore Islamic State militants to spare the life of aid worker Peter Kassig. (Bilal Hussein / Associated Press)

Emotional letter

Mr Kassig’s parents last month released extracts of a letter written by their son, in which he told of the strains of captivity.

“This is the hardest thing a man can go through, the stress and fear are incredible,” the aid worker wrote.

“They tell us you have abandoned us and/or don’t care but of course we know you are doing everything you can and more.

“Don’t worry Dad, if I do go down, I won’t go thinking anything but what I know to be true. That you and mom love me more than the moon and the stars.”

Mr Kassig was a former US Army Ranger who served in Iraq.

He later trained as an emergency medical technician, travelling to Lebanon in May 2012 to work in border hospitals treating Palestinian refugees and later those fleeing the Syrian conflict.

kassig beheadingLater that year, he founded the Special Emergency Response and Assistance (Sera) organisation and subsequently moved its base of operations to southern Turkey, near the border with Syria.

Mr Kassig sourced and delivered supplies to camps on both sides of the Syrian border, and helped to treat civilian casualties and train medics inside Syria.

He was undertaking a project for Sera when he was captured in October 2013 while travelling to eastern Syria.

Analysis by Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent

This is perhaps the most elaborate and graphic of all the murder videos posted online by IS.

Much of it is taken up with a recent history lesson on Iraq and Syria as seen through the eyes of the jihadists. But the latter part shows a mass beheading of Syrian prisoners in revolting, lingering detail.

Unlike earlier videos, this one revels in gore. Amongst the boiler-suited captives murdered in cold blood is a man IS says is the former US soldier Peter Kassig, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman.

Neither his conversion nor the fact that he was helping refugees when he was captured a year ago, appear to have saved him.

Mr Kassig’s murder shows that IS have no intention of toning down their bloodlust to appeal to more followers.

It is also a sign of frustration that they are unable to hit back at the coalition air strikes that have driven them off key sites like the Mosul and Haditha dams, and prevented them from seizing the town of Kobane.

BBC

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10 responses to “US hostage Kassig executed by IS”

  1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    These bastards killed an Angel who was endangering his life many times over in order to help the poor Syrian people. ISIS = EVIL=HEZBOLLAH=IRAN=BASHAR=PUTIN

    1. Shiite Iran is the operator of many such evil entities beside the “Daesh”. They created “Daesh” to fulfill their prophesy and belief that “Daesh” will aid in the imminent reappearance of Shi* Mahdi. It makes perfect sense if you analyze their prophesy and belief, and to understand the real reason behind their (Daesh) creation beside of course their (Shi* Iran) dream of Shi* crescent, political power, and complete hegemony!

      But top of all her creations is “Halesh”!

      – “Halesh: Iran’s Shi* Party of Satan in Lebanon (HezbuShaitan)”
      – “Halesh: Iran’s Shi* Party of Satan in Yemen”
      – “Halesh: Iran’s Shi* Party of Satan in Bahrain”
      – “Halesh: Iran’s Shi* Party of Satan in Iraq”
      – “Halesh: Iran’s Shi* Party of Satan in Sham”.

      Their created and operated “Halesh” are everywhere creating chaos and havoc. Both “Halesh” and “Daesh” are the evil horns of the Satanic Shi* Iran!

      In their Shi* belief, the radical Sunnis (Daesh) will conquer Syria for a short period of time and then Iranian forces will intervene on their way to destroying Israel.

      “Halesh” leader Hassan Nasrallah is, like Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, “known for being a strong believer” in the Shi* prophecy that Iran will lead an End Times war against Islam’s enemies. At that time, the Shi* Mahdi will “reappear” and defeat the infidel.

      Iran and Hezbollah rely upon a book of prophecies called “Al-Jafr” to guide them. It was passed down to Jafar al-Sadiq, for whom the Jafari school of Shi* jurisprudence is named after. Teachers of this book say that the Syrian leader will be killed in a civil war during the End Times.

      A Sunni leader (Daesh) will take over Syria and persecute Shiites, Sunnis, Allawites, and Christians. The persecution will continue until an Iranian army invades Syria via Iraq, killing this Sunni (Daesh) leader on the way to capturing Jerusalem. Once Jerusalem is taken, the Shi* Mahdi will appear.

      Interestingly, in a modern context, this means that “Halesh” (HizbuShaitan) is fighting to preserve the regime of a man (Bashar Assad) that they believe will be killed.

      Keep in mind, the Jafari school of jurisprudence is mainstream Shi* doctrine. There’s bound to be disagreement over the interpretation of prophecy, but these are not the beliefs of an isolated cult. In July 2010, a senior Iranian cleric said that Khamenei told his inner circle that he had met with the Shi* Mahdi, who promised to “reappear” during his lifetime.

      A very similar eschatological viewpoint is articulated in a 2011 documentary produced by the office of then-President Ahmadinejad. The film, titled The Coming is Upon Us, does not predict a Syrian civil war but shares many of the same details.

      A critical point of convergence between the two sources is about Saudi Arabia’s role in prophecy. Both agree that the death of Saudi King Abdullah will be a major trigger. In fact, this event is so central to the Iranian film that it opens up with the statement, “Whoever guarantees the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, I will guarantee the imminent reappearance of Shi* Mahdi.”

      http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xd-zw6nADcE

      http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcLS724zM7A

      1. nagy_michael2 Avatar
        nagy_michael2

        Very interesting historical facts. thanks for taking the time to write it here.

        1. Anytime my good Christian brother!

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar

        The Satanic Talmud was written 500yrs after Christ.
        (gentiles are anybody not Jew)

        -Yebamoth 63a.
        States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all animals in the Garden of Eden.

        -Hittin 57a.
        Jesus is in Hell being boiled in hot excrement.

        -Baba Meziha 59b.
        A Rabbi debates with God and defeats him God admits the Rabbi won the debate.

        -Sanhedrin 54b.
        A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than 9 years old.

        -Hilkkot Akims Xl:
        Show no merci to the gentiles every Jew who spills the blood of a non-Jew, is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God.

        -Keilmboth 11b.
        When a grown man has an intercourse with a little girl it’s nothing.

    2. Israel vs Iran: The Great Bluff against Muslims and the World

      http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ny2HUn1P-c

      Unraveling Mystery Behind building of the Pyramids in Shi*ism

      http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QTUnkPc_yKI

      After watching the video with fairy tales and lies regarding the importance of pyramids in Shi*ism, then see how pyramids are all over Iran including mosques and parliament. This is how the Masonic Shi* Ayatoilets trick the naive Shi*s in believing and following Luciferianism and Freemasonry in the name of Islam.

      http://sonsofsunnah.com/2011/04/16/the-dajjaal-the-shia-mahdi-the-opiate-of-the-masses/

      Dajjal = Shi* Mahdi = Iran = Daesh = Halesh = Crypto-Yahuds = Freemasons = Illuminatis = New World Order

  2. abdul rahman Dimashqiah a Lebanese Muslim Scholar made a great appeal to Daesh to free this man. Here is the video “free peter kassig please”
    Youtube video link bellow
    /watch?v=14nblzphb-4

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar

      So you and Guests spamming the site in order to instruct us about ISIL, (Daesh), run by Iran.. on same time crying that Iran is helping Syrian government..so Daesh-Iran are Sunni and Shia.
      They savagely beheaded Kassig and 18 Syrian soldiers, am i right? What is it that i don’t understand.

      “As carefully laid out and sourced as one could want… I find the author’s argument that the US, the UK, and France, among others, have been actively using terrorists, nurturing terrorists, as part of a geopolitical and economic strategy, and that in their naiveté they nurtured a force they cannot control today, to be completely credible”

      Robert D. Steele, founding Deputy Director, US Marine Corps Intelligence Command

      PS. Speaking of Booz Allen Hamilton, US Giant defence contractor after reading the article.
      http://www.nafeezahmed.com/2013/06/exclusive-edward-snowdens-employer-nsa.html

  3. sweetvirgo Avatar

    Rest in peace!!! These guys are scum and savages…workers of the devil.

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