ISIS have beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig

Vince524 · Nov 16, 2014

Militants claim to have beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig in a video published to the Internet on Sunday, purportedly from terror group ISIS.

The video shows the aftermath of a beheading, in which the victim is not clearly recognizable. CNN has not been able to confirm the authenticity of the video nor the identity of the victim.

Kassig, 26, who converted to Islam in captivity, also went by the name Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

He went to the Middle East as a U.S. soldier and returned as a medical worker, feeling compelled to help victims of war.

He did aid work in Syria, where he was captured. He was held hostage for over a year.

But this recording is different from previously released ones. It is longer, almost 16 minutes, and does not include a statement by the victim, as previous ones had.

And it is utterly brutal, showing in graphic detail the beheadings of other men, whom militants claim are pilots for the Syrian government.

The narration spends much time on ISIS' history and the figure taunts U.S. President Barack Obama, saying he will have to return troops to Iraq in greater numbers than before.

regdog · Nov 17, 2014

rugcat · Nov 17, 2014

A letter that Peter Kassig wrote to his parents while in captivity:

http://m.wsj.com/articles/BL-DISPATCHB-4181

To just call it touching fails to fully convey the emotional impact of this letter.

raburrell · Nov 17, 2014

Thank you for posting that, rugcat.

Nothing else I could say seems coherent, so I will leave it at that.

William Haskins · Nov 19, 2014

Hauchard is the first of the unmasked executioners in the ISIS video to be positively and publicly identified, although French authorities have said a second young French Muslim convert’s appearance may be authenticated shortly. As intelligence services around the world are working to identify any other foreign fighters among the band of killers in the gory new video, speculation also surfaced that another of the killers is 20-year-old Welsh jihadist Nasser Muthana, but that has yet to be confirmed.

Indeed, analysts agree one of the video’s key functions for ISIS is to illustrate how far the group’s seductive reach is extending globally. As France took in the shock news that one of its own sons may be a throat-slitting, decapitating terrorist, the Islamist specialist Romain Caillet told Le Monde, “In putting forward soldiers from the four corners of the world, Da’esh [as the French call the group, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS] is looking to create a ‘United Colors of Jihad’ effect. The message is simple: there are hundreds of Jihadi Johns.”

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ISIS have beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig

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