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ISIS Splinter Group "Caliphate Soldiers" Beheads French Hostage In Algeria
A new armed group in Algeria calling itself the "Caliphate Soldiers" - a re-splinter from Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS - has, according to AP, beheaded a Frenchman abducted in Algeria in a video posted online on Wednesday, after giving a 24-hour deadline to Paris. Herve Gourdel, a 55-year-old hiker from the southern French city of Nice, was kidnapped on Sunday by Jund al-Khilifa, which demanded France stop its air strikes against IS in Iraq.
#ISIS-linked group in Algeria reportedly behead French citizen Herve #Gourdel. #France pic.twitter.com/FoU7KbikNZ
— Mustafa Aliraqi (@Iraqism) September 24, 2014
The initial threat video sent 24 hours ago...
Masked men seen in the new video give the French government 24 hours to stop its offensive against ISIL, otherwise Gourdel “will be beheaded”.
The French foreign ministry has confirmed the video’s authenticity.
“We confirm the authenticity of the video showing images of French hostage Hervé Gourdel, kidnapped in Algeria in the region of Tizi Ouzou on Sunday (September 21). The threats made by this terrorist group show once again the extreme cruelty of Daech (Islamic State/ISIL) and those who say they are affiliated to it,” the ministry said in a statement.
And now, as SITE reports...
Jund al-Khilafah in Algeria Beheads French Hostage in Video http://t.co/pU8GpB6nIJ
— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) September 24, 2014
Reuters has some color on this new terrorist group,
A breakaway of key Algerian commanders from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, would show deepening rivalry between al Qaeda's core command and the Islamic State over leadership of the transnational Islamist militancy.
The newly created "Caliphate Soldiers" or "Jound al Khilafa fi Ard al Jazayer" is the second group to break with AQIM, the first one being Mokhtar Belmokhtar's group "Those who sign in Blood" who observers say are likely based now in southern Libya.
"The new group will try hard to make some noise, but it will be very difficult to execute big terrorist actions as Algerian security forces have knocked out most of the armed groups in Algeria," local security analyst Anis Rahmani said.
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Who are Jund al-Khilafa? (via BBC)
- Previously part of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which grew out of Algerian Islamist groups involved in 1990s civil war
- Carried out numerous attacks in Kabylie region - in April, ambushed an army convoy, leaving 11 soldiers dead
- Many residents fled the region's forests and mountains in recent years due to insecurity
- Group said to be led by Abdelmalek Gouri, known as Khaled Abou Slimane, 37
- 14 September, pledged allegiance to Islamic State
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Gruseome images of the beheading can be found here (warning: very graphic)
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We have 435 members of congress, 100 senators, an AG, and a POTUS they can start with....
The fokkers give a lot more head than my old lady.
chopping off heads is so much work, they need a chain saw. maybe the cia could provide them
Naaaaa, that's the signature work of Mexican Cartels.
so, if I get it right, the next stop is Algieria?
3 Days of the Condor - Oilhttp://youtu.be/3db2IMqx4j0
Gas from Algeria flows already to Europe. Algerian colony serves their master.
Because of one guy...no war there.
I must be part French because I feel really bad for this guy. RIP.
Tony Bennett singing - "I left my head in [fill in the blank]".....
One less Frenchman won't cause the world to stop spinning will it?
Just because one of his French comrads told him to "take a hike" in Algeria doesn't mean he actually had to do it.
I smell Muslim country #8 being primed for an air assault...
I think it's safe to say the typical comment here is written for a reader with an IQ of 69.
You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRQijskAMp4
Funny comment under that clip on youtube:
Sean Smith6 months ago
I'm a nurse and was a writing a nursing note the other day. Another nurse, also a fan of this film and who had the same patient a couple of days before, dared me to write this in a note. "The pt is fucked up. Pt talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded."
I was tempted.
... As they say in Minnesota... Whoa, Four...Five Pounder...
well in your case it seems rather to be low twenties.
Anyone
Bet
France drops-out of bombing campain
I wish USA would.
Or, better yet, how about a little shock and awe down around the Mall in D.C. from 1st Street down to 16th & Penn.?
Looks like Obama is really getting busy with fighting the different groups and waging more wars. It seems to me that he is really enjoying doing it and it's a good news for him.
Seems a lot more cost effective than firing Tomahawk missiles and $300 million F-22's to kill people, more humane too probably...
Ironic that the french government beheaded 1000s of Algerian rebels in the 1960s.
Hi NSA or whomever reads this, I am extremely horrified at what I am being taxed to support. If you get a chance, please watch russell brand's youtube vids, maybe you can be a little better informed about the core humanitarian issues at stake here, and possibly make some better policy decisions. The middle east has really become a powder keg of a situation.
I encourage others to begin complaining & whining about all these unnecessary problems, and tell governments they need to start looking at the root problem. Not after anyone's job here, but the nonsense should be brought to a stop. No I cannot do anything if you oppose what I say here, and yes it would seem that you have begun suppressing first ammendment rights, but remember, your a person just like me with his/her own creaturely needs, and therefore, more equalitarian measures should be pursued.
Be more creative in dealings with others, extend the olive branch, and no I am not mocking here, but to quote something mentioned by slavoj zizek, it would seem that we have a euthanasia of tolerant reason.