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US-Ally Jordan To Breach Western Protocol, Will Exchange Hostages With ISIS

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Several days after a Japanese hostage held by the Islamic State was executed, with a second Japanese hostage, freelance journalist Kenji Goto likely awaiting the same fate unless the Jordan releases an ISIS prisoner, the middle eastern US-ally is about to dramatically breach western protocol of not negotiating with terrorists, and as the newswires reported earlier, is prepared to exchange said imprisoned ISIS would-be suicide bomber, however not for the Japanese captive of ISIS but for one of its own pilots held by the Islamic militants.

The WSJ has more details: "Mohammad Momani, Jordan’s minister in charge of media affairs and communications, said in a statement on state-run media that his government is prepared to release Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces death by hanging for her role in the 2005 hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, if Islamic State releases pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh unharmed."

“Jordan’s position from the beginning was to safeguard the life of our son, the pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh,” Mr. Momani said in the statement, released by Petra News Agency.

The Jordanian statement came just hours before the supposed expiration of a deadline imposed by Islamic State for Jordan to release the prisoner in exchange for freelance Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

However, as the WSJ notes, Mr. Momani didn’t mention Mr. Goto. Which likely means that the Japanese hostage is out of luck as there are no more bargaining chips, and Jordan would rather get one of its own in exchange for the ISIS captive, and since Japan has refused to pay to release its hostages, the freelance journalist's day are sadly numbered.

Junko Ishido, the mother of Mr. Goto, a freelance journalist, asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to exert every possible effort in negotiations with Jordan to free her son.

 

“I can’t think of anyone besides Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who can negotiate with Jordan,” she said. “As a mother, I sincerely hope that Kenji can once again set foot on Japan.” Ms. Ishido said her request for meetings with Mr. Abe and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was declined.

 

At a Wednesday morning cabinet meeting, Mr. Abe condemned Islamic State. “This is a despicable act and I feel strong resentment. We are asking Jordan for its cooperation, and this policy will not change,” he said.

 

In the video released Tuesday the narrator also urged the Japanese government to pressure Jordan to accept the demand.

As a result, Jordan has accepted the demand, only it has decided it has no use for the Japanese captive.

The Jordanian pilot referred to in the video was captured in December after his plane crashed in Syria. The Jordanian Armed Forces said it was trying to verify the authenticity of the latest video.

 

The Jordanian pilot’s father, Safi al-Kasasbeh, urged Jordan’s government and King Abdullah II to act swiftly to secure the release of his son. “The father of the pilot, his relatives and the tribes in the south call on the king and the government to act as quickly as possible to rescue the Jordanian pilot,” he said.

In conclusion:

Hassan Abu Hanieh, an Amman-based independent expert on Islamic groups, said: “It is obvious that [Islamic State] is trying to pressure Jordan.” He said Islamic State tried again to offer a deal “in a manner that would implicate Jordan.”

And now Jordan has folded. Just out from Bloomberg:

  • ISLAMIC STATE RELEASE NEW VIDEO: TBS
  • VIDEO SHOWS MAN CLAIMING TO BE FROM ISLAMIC STATE: TBS
  • MAN SAYS THAT ISLAMIC STATE WILL RELEASE HOSTAGES IN VIDEO: TBS
  • MAN IN VIDEO DOESN'T SPECIFY WHICH HOSTAGE TO BE FREED: TBS

While we feel for the Japanese hostage, who is merely a pawn in the latest middle-eastern power struggle, the bigger news here is that a nation which is widely perceived as part of the western Middle-east alliance has just caved in and is willing to "negotiate with terrorist." This means that an unexpectedly emboldened ISIS will make hostage taking from an art into a science, and likely go global quite quickly with this new preferred tactic.

 

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Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:49 | 5715585 Romney Wordsworth
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Heads & everything?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:51 | 5715593 bigdumbnugly
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yes, pez dispensers are unacceptable.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:55 | 5715609 Romney Wordsworth
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Howz about a PREZ DISPENSER?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:00 | 5715624 GetZeeGold
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We'll trade 5 terrorists for 1 deserter......OK......maybe 10.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:04 | 5715649 Arius
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western protocol?  what is that?

 

Israel conducts routinely prisoner exchange with palestinians ...

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:10 | 5715674 Ghordius
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Israel has a very special relationship with the country that leads "the West". and that's an undeniable fact

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:12 | 5715692 Romney Wordsworth
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Yes that's absolutely TRUE. Israel is indeed very fond of itsself.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:20 | 5715726 Ghordius
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well, in part as a result of the 1967 Six-Day_War. I honestly think that if you don't study attentively what happened then you won't understand how Israel understands itself

(which, in part, has it's basis on the way Uncle Sam and Israel whistled back both France and Britain when they were already landing in Egypt ten years before)

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:23 | 5715733 TerminalDebt
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go in there and kill everything that moves then burn it all to the ground. Screw this exchange bullshit.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:25 | 5715748 Ghordius
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and don't forget to nuke them. in fact, nuke the whole earth. long cockroaches! it's time cockroaches free themselves from the tyranny of the humans!!

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:26 | 5716027 Save_America1st
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Jordan is considered "Western"???? 

Fuck...don't know whether to laugh or cry about that assumption.  WTF does that say about us???   LOL/Waawaawaa ;-)

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 14:27 | 5716627 Ghordius
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well... yes. At the end, the truth is that the Western World stops/begins at... Iran. From the point of view of the East, Indians are Easterners and Arabs are Westerners

culturally, linguistically, theologically (monotheists), historically, etc. etc.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:46 | 5715829 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Beware of what you wish for: an Alien civilization may come and decide with their thousand years technological advance to exterminate us including the "good" "brave" and "civilized" West.

Cordially, Her Majesty the King and the commander of the Zeta-Reticuli fleet.

Intergalactic and time traveling division.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:00 | 5715897 TBT or not TBT
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The advantage we have over the Islamic infected world is cultural and ideological far more so than technological.  The first two advantages of course bring about the latter.   I should add that we  constrain ourselves from eradicating them or just taking their stuff.   Whereas when and where Islamic states had the advantage they did not constrain themselves.  Far from it.   It is part of their ideology still today to put the whole planet under an unending pervasive miserable dehumanizing yoke of Islam. 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:18 | 5715990 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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The advantage we have over the Islamic infected world is cultural and ideological far more so than technological.

Since when ass fucking marriage, bossy bitch, whoredome, leftism and moral relativism is better ?

Believe it or not the West is pretty in Sodome and Gomorrah mode and remind me the final stage before Roman Empire collapse.

So I have the choice between Sodome and Gomorrah and some random militant terrorist on drugs ?

I choose neither thanks. (Now going to sleep.)

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:29 | 5716367 TBT or not TBT
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Well that's one rather limited theory of the fall of Rome.   Get  back to us after reading Gibbon.    While you are at it, look up consanguineous.    It's worse than drinking water out of lead pipes.  

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:40 | 5716431 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Truth hurt ?

The money printing press is not the sole explanation but the mores of a whole civilization explain a lot.

To Judge the mores of civilization listen their music (Confucius).

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:51 | 5716470 TBT or not TBT
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The whole rainbow brigade crusade of the last few years is just another symptom of our overextended welfare state, which is the primary cause of our decline.   Ditto the money printing to prop up the same.  The state got overextended by a ratcheting process of politicians  buying votes with promises of more handouts, programs, benefits, guarantees "rights" and so on.   Our demise is assured by the excessive level of democracy in our present system.   Take Barack Obama, please.  

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:14 | 5715694 nope-1004
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Yes, and Jordan may be calling the US bluff here, since the origins of ISIS are becoming more widely questioned (or known, depending on who you are).

 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:47 | 5715824 Chupacabra-322
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ISIS (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) Bombshell Exposed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBaB35hASdY

"The state of Israel must invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the methods of provocation and revenge...And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space." -- From the diary of Moshe Sharett, Israeli's first Foreign Minister from 1948-1956, and Prime Minister from 1954-1956.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:06 | 5715657 TBT or not TBT
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Hey, Bergdahl and his dad are national treasures.   

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:53 | 5715595 f16hoser
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"Head?" Who said head? I'll have some...

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:01 | 5715639 Atomizer
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Urban legends state Obama gave HEAD to Reggie.

/Sarc

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:52 | 5715596 Stuck on Zero
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Jordan should release Sajida al-Rishawi back to ISIS wrapped in bacon. Better yet bacon wrapped C4.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:53 | 5715601 Atomizer
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Back in the old days, United Nations hosted a Oil for food scandal program. Nothing different about this hostage exchange program, just rebranded. 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:54 | 5715602 Mike Honcho
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Goto better thank his lucky stars he isn't in Saudi Arabia, they don't delay.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:05 | 5715620 Coldfire
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Ooooh, scary. Please protect us from CIAIsis, Big Father. Please!

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:15 | 5715698 nope-1004
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+1.  George Bush(es) front run all this shit.

 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:26 | 5715754 Romney Wordsworth
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They don't call him 'POPPY' Bush for nuttin'... Kno what I MENA?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:50 | 5715849 Chupacabra-322
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Yea, I know exactly what you MENA. However, let me confirm that with his other son Bill Clinton.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:58 | 5715622 valley chick
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Time to change the script as beheadings are so 2014. More interesting that the west is losing support to go with plan.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:58 | 5715623 Occams_Chainsaw
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They traded some folks....

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:12 | 5715691 NoVa
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yes - another post said, at least the fighter can go back and bomb 'em.

they get another female tearorest - Great - no different than spitting in the ocean over there.  

NoVa

 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:01 | 5715630 Latitude25
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ISIS = ebola.  Brought to you by western oligarchs to distract the sheep from the ongoing shearing.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:12 | 5715683 TBT or not TBT
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Deflategate is of that order of stupid distraction, being about cheating in a game, i.e. a contest of little to no real  consequence.   Militant Islam on the other hand, has been a threat to sheep and humans alike for 13 centuries.  

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:54 | 5715865 Latitude25
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ISIS : John McCain admits he met ISIS and says "We know these people intimately" (Sept 16, 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vItuKKuz_7Y

You mean this US created Islamic threat?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:04 | 5715919 TBT or not TBT
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The CIA planted Mohammed (piss be upon him) way back in the 7th century to set all this up for today?  They're even better than we thought!

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:14 | 5715948 Latitude25
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So if believers in Mohammed are the problem, where's the big problem in the US with 2 million muslims?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

If even 1% (20,000) were radically violent the US would have a big problem.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:40 | 5716421 TBT or not TBT
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Oh, one big problem is that far too many of them would trade our rule of law with theirs.   If they could.   They support CAIR financially.   They recruit in our prisons.  And so on.   Islam prescribes tactics for its followers living in the "House of War"   Which are those places not yet under Islamic control.   We should not make their stay here too comfortable, within the limits of our constitution and our Far more tolerant modernised religions and ethical systems

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:02 | 5715644 Usurious
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"negotiate with terrorist.".........that's too funny...I guess it depends on the what the meaning of terrorist Isis.......King George labeled Sam Adams and John Hancock terrorists........just sayin...

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:30 | 5715767 Romney Wordsworth
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EVERYONE was a terrorist to King George.

 

So basically, nothing at all has changed since then.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:04 | 5715652 Joe A
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Just dope them and put a GPS locator inside them.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:07 | 5715661 xavi1951
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Dust the bitch with a little polonium-210 and give her to them.  The slow death of her fellow terrorists will be fun to watch.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:07 | 5715665 Oldballplayer
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Captured pilots are different than "hostages."

They just are....

At least the pilot will be able to go back and kill them.  Aide workers generally just want to go home.

 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:06 | 5715666 Son of Captain Nemo
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My... My... My... My... How ISIS has grown with so much financial and other support!...

It's getting so powerful these days even Syriza doesn't have time to celebrate it's electoral victory in Greece?!!!

I see a visit from Senator McCain as chief "negotiator for peace"in Jordan and Greece's future!

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:10 | 5715678 Bangalore Torpedo
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So when is Jordan going to trade Israel for the Jordanian hostages that the Jews kidnapped? 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:15 | 5715697 oudinot
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What 'Western protocol'? Last year the US swapped 5 Taliban from Gitmo for Private Berghdal.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:23 | 5715737 Ghordius
Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:19 | 5715712 general ambivalent
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And you might guess what happens next. The CIA kills the hostages anyway because you can't negotiate with terrists. And at the same time 50 new MRAPs push citizens into the harbor as they keep shouting, "Boston Strong!"

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:22 | 5715729 The man with po...
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We do NOT negotiate with terrorists... we just arm them.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:27 | 5715751 UTICA CLUB XX PURE
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Hey, Obama handed them 6 terrorist for a god damn bird dog!

 

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:04 | 5715859 freakscene
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the bigger news here is that a nation which is widely perceived as part of the western Middle-east alliance has just caved in and is willing to "negotiate with terrorist."

 

Iran is on the list of State sponsored terrorists, yet "The West" has been negotiating with them for most of Obama's time in office.

Same with North Korea. the US built them light water nuclear reactors, gave them money, oil etc........all while being listed as State Sponsors of terrorism.

Recent Cuba deal?

Is there a difference that I am missing? Is it just the exchange of hostages thats the difference? That cant be it either since Obama did just that.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:08 | 5715924 Divine Wind
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If western nations were serious about battling ISIS goat fucking cube worshipers,

They would be kidnapping and beheading family members of ISIS goat fucking cube worshipers,

burying them unwashed, covered in pigs blood, face down, ass towards Mecca,

and posting YouTube / LiveLeak videos of the festivities.

 

Find out where it hurts and squeeze.

 

I AM DIVINE WIND

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:21 | 5715997 freakscene
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Is it possible the West created ISIS to continue the goal post WWI of destablizing the Mid East? It's an interesting theory and wouldnt be the first time something like this got out of their control.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:08 | 5715936 goldhedge
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Japan please keep on following your US Master's words.

 

Another bunch of American ass licking fukwits.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 12:09 | 5715950 Divine Wind
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+1000

 

"ass licking fukwits."

ROFL

Nice word combination.

Were you in the Navy?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:02 | 5716225 gonetogalt
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Fucking serial junkers, who would junk this?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:44 | 5716444 PR Guy
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Sounds more like 'lawyer talk' or your average Wall Street merchant of death to me.

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:09 | 5716258 CentralBankster
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They should ask the Yankees for tips and tricks. The Bowe Bergdahl situation has given them expierence in negotiating with terrorists

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:09 | 5716268 monad
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Then give the suicide bomber back. Give them all back. Infected with something grody to the max...

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:40 | 5716419 PR Guy
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Are Jordan the new cheese-eating surrender monkeys?

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 13:52 | 5716479 SmittyinLA
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Abe stick his neck out for some Socialist peon journalist? LOL 

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