Tuesday, January 20, 2015

"ISIS threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages"

"A masked man in the latest video gives the Japanese government a choice to pay $200 million -- the same amount of money Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently pledged for those "contending" with ISIS -- to free the Japanese men. That deal holds for 72 hours, which would seem to mean sometime Friday since the video appeared on social media Tuesday."

"Although you are more than 8,500 kilometers away from the Islamic State, you willingly volunteered to take part in this crusade," the masked man on the video posted Tuesday says, addressing his comments to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (read more)

Video: ISIS Hostages were tortured.

13 comments:

bagoh20 said...

He should announce that if they are killed, $400 million goes those who fight ISIS, and add a nice fat bounty on the ISIS guy's head. The whole world needs to grow a set and get angry. The policemen of the world is tired of the anti-cop shit, and our police chief thinks ISIS needs midnight basketball. You are on your own - don't be a pussy.

bagoh20 said...

I don't know any Japanese, so I don't understand how they morphed into the pacifist of today from the vicious warriors of the past, where in the 1930s and 40's they were even worse than ISIS if you happen to be on their shit list. One thing worse about ISIS is that they are even more cruel to their own people.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I'm not at all sure what good comes from publicizing this sort of stuff.

AllenS said...

It was the US who made the Japanese into what they are now. We made sure they didn't rebuild their armed forces after WWII.

They could use a couple of modern aircraft carriers right about now, with a lot of up to date aircraft. Oh, and a lot of bombs. Big bombs.

Want to stop this beheading nonsense? Take out a mosque for every beheading.

ricpic said...

Based on googling Japan's military power it is not negligible. True, Japan only has one aircraft carrier, but it has 45 destroyers and slightly under 200 fighters and about the same number of fixed wing attack aircraft (bombers?). Here's hoping the Japanese get angry enough to use their muscle against the ISIS filth.

john said...

I would like to know: How well did this work the first time?

Trooper York said...

I always thought that they made a mistake in demilitarizing Japan. We should have turned them into our allies and proxies. Imagine what a bunch of crazy banzai Japs could have done in Korea or Vietnam on now against the Muzzies.

Misses an opportunity there.

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Methadras said...

ISIS, hey who needs attention whore on the internet when we have them?

edutcher said...

Yes, but you can bet the last thing they want to hear is, "Banzai".

Tojo's boys were real tough guys.

JAL said...
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JAL said...

Part of me says I shouldn't think this way, but I actually like Allen's suggestion above at 10:56. Do like we did before the A bombs. Drop leaflets warning the locals to get out of Dodge. Or ditch going to the mosques.

Somehow we need to help create / arm a local resistance also. But then there are not enough trees or basements to hide out in in Iraq though, are there...

Japanese can't infiltrate. Facial recognition would give them away ... But a fight like this might reenergize their sagging masculinity.

cubanbob said...

The Japanese should land a sufficiently large force to take a piece of land occupied by ISIS and defend it then offer ten thousand dollars cash for the head of every ISIS member brought to them. At ten grand a head two hundred million should make for an awesome collections of heads. After a few months pass and a suitable number of heads are collected they can pull out with the certainty that ISIS won't mess again with Japs.