ISIS Claims American Hostage Killed by Jordanian Retaliation Bombings

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

The Islamic State claimed Friday that the Jordanian bombings in northern Syria intended to avenge its immolation of a captured pilot had killed an American woman held hostage by the group.

An Islamic State message published by the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist activity, said the American woman was killed when the building where she was being held in the Raqqa area collapsed in an airstrike.

“The failed Jordanian aircraft killed an American female hostage,” said the message. “No mujahid was injured in the bombardment, and all praise is due to Allah.” Mujahid means fighter.

The woman, the only remaining American hostage held by the Islamic State, disappeared inAugust of last year after she drove into Aleppo with her Syrian boyfriend. Her colleagues received a proof-of-life video a few months later, showing her wearing a hijab and begging for her life.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/world/middleeast/isis-claims-american-hostage-killed-by-jordanian-retaliation-bombings.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

---

Or, ISIS had already killed her, and figured this would be better PR.

[sharp_stick]

1. Probably better for her

Who knows what kind of atrocity those sick fucks were concocting for her eventual torture porn.

[Blue_Tires]

8. +1

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. Sadly I have to agree

RIP

[George II]

2. She was killed in the building but no ISIS scum were killed or injured?

I doubt she was in the building alone.

Sad, but she's probably better off.

[hamsterjill]

3. Well, let's not forget who had her in that building if she was (indeed) killed there.

It's not like she was there of her own free will. So if she was killed there, she was killed by the people who forced her to be there.

[TwilightGardener]

4. They're playing all sorts of games, aren't they? You have to hand it to them,

this is what an entire army of insanely sick fucks from around the world can do when they're allowed to congregate and brain-storm. Maybe ISIS decided that whatever they planned to do to her on camera would really unleash hell beyond even the pilot's burning, or maybe they killed her a long time ago, or maybe she killed herself or died in some other way. However it happened, I hope it was swift and as painless as possible. Edit to add: Now is the time to completely flatten Raqqa.

[flamingdem]

6. I tend to agree. They realized that the retaliation would be total

and they've already got Jordan to deal with.

[jwirr]

5. They think we are going to blame Jordan? Think again if ISIS had not held her against her will she

would not have been in that building.

[former9thward]

7. Those things happen in war.

Nothing clean about it. POWs were killed at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S. government hid it from everyone, including their families until the late 70s.


Hidden History: American POWS Were Killed in Hiroshima

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162596/hidden-history-american-pows-were-killed-hiroshima#

[Chan790]

9. It's one of the unpleasantnesses of war.

I don't mean to minimize her death...but it's probably a small mercy for her if true and it is the sort of thing that happens in a war.

9th ward pointed out about American POWs dying in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Author Kurt Vonnegut was one of several-hundred American POWs in Dresden for the Allied fire-bombing of that city. (His experiences in Dresden make up the backbone of the narrative of the (fiction) novel Slaughterhouse Five.)...most of his fellow POWs did not survive the fire-bombing.

These things happen in a war. The blame lies with ISIS for her death...it's possible-to-probable that she was murdered before the bombing and this incident is being used to attempt to drive a wedge between Jordan and the US.

[Yo_Mama]

10. You can't trust what they say, so who knows?

She might have been killed a while ago, just like the Jordanian pilot.

[pampango]

11. What are the odds? Jordan launches multiple air strikes in response to the torture and killing

of their pilot and it just so happens that one of those air strikes kills an American hostage. Got to make Jordan look bad.

Only ISIS would believe that we would buy what they are selling.

[NutmegYankee]

13. They (ISIS) probably murdered her week ago. nt

[on point]

14. ISIS killed her, by kidnapping innocent aid working and holding her in harms way. Their fault.