Nice to know these parents are just actors in some diabolical CIA scheme [View all]

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to..... I dunno, end the world? start WWIII? Nice to know they're not really begging for the life of their 26 year old son. Nice to know that if he actually exists, he's an actor too and the letter he wrote his parents saying he was scared to die, was actually penned by some CIA spook... or something. Or hey, maybe he will get beheaded but ISIS is a CIA front and really, the U.S. is behind these acts.


http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/05/parents-of-u-s-aid-worker-send-an-impassioned-plea-to-his-isis-captors-let-our-son-go/

US hostage Kassig letter: 'I am scared to die'

Abdul-Rahman Kassig, known as Peter Kassig before he converted to Islam, wrote in June that he was "scared to die" and saddened by the pain his ordeal was causing to the family.

Last week IS posted a video showing the beheading of UK hostage Alan Henning.

It ended with a threat to kill 26-year-old Mr Kassig.

It was the fourth such video released by the militant group, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Previous victims were American reporter James Foley, American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines.

IS said they were killed in retaliation for US-led air strikes on the group's targets.

Ed and Paula Kassig said they had decided to release excerpts from their son's letter "so the world can understand why we and so many people care for him and admire him".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29501837


One can be against military intervention in Iraq and Syria and not buy into callous, deranged and stupid shit. It's not hard to grasp why this isn't the 'Iraq incubator babies' tale. There's a ton of evidence and beyond that, anyone with a scintilla of logic could figure out in a minute that such a conspiracy would be impossible to carry out. Not unlikely. Fucking impossible. You'd have to have planned it decades in advance and have thousands of people in on it.

I've been, and remain, strongly opposed to military intervention in Syria and Iraq. It's counter-productive. I believe that the U.S. is indeed, in large part, responsible for ISIS in the sense that had we not invaded Iraq they wouldn't exist or if they did, they'd be weak. But this shit? It's so stupid and cruel. I have nothing but contempt for those who believe and spread this shit.