ISIS threaten to kill two Japanese hostages

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• CravenHaven Posts: 13,953

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  20/01/15 - 08:32 #2

  Mmm, let me calculate this one...
  ISIS get some publicity by capturing someone
  ISIS get some publicity by making a ransom video
  ISIS get some publicity by murdering someone on video
  ... this is publicity one can't buy for £200m

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• steveh31 Posts: 13,516

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  20/01/15 - 08:35 #3

  Is this a slightly different tactic, rather than showing a beheading out of the blue they are now giving a timed warning and asking for money rather than just beheading and posting the video.

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• CravenHaven Posts: 13,953

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  20/01/15 - 08:36 #4

  Yeah, you get one more video out of it
  :kitty:

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• Ads Posts: 37,056

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  20/01/15 - 08:36 #5

  So despite all the spy technology available to the West, we still can't locate Jihadi John.
  
  Be interesting to see what the Japanese do in this situation. I can't see them paying $200m, but will they try and offer any sort of money at all?

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• idlewilde Posts: 8,698

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  20/01/15 - 08:40 #6

  steveh31 wrote: »

  Is this a slightly different tactic, rather than showing a beheading out of the blue they are now giving a timed warning and asking for money rather than just beheading and posting the video.

  
  Just common fkn thieves at the end of the day.

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• steveh31 Posts: 13,516

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  20/01/15 - 08:43 #7

  Could be the low oil price is now affecting their funding and they need the money.

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• CravenHaven Posts: 13,953

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  20/01/15 - 08:46 #8

  The more outlandish the demand they make, the more news it makes. Next time it may be "... and a Saturn V waiting for us at Cape Canaveral pointed at heaven"

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• idlewilde Posts: 8,698

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  20/01/15 - 08:49 #9

  Ads wrote: »

  So despite all the spy technology available to the West, we still can't locate Jihadi John.
  
  Be interesting to see what the Japanese do in this situation. I can't see them paying $200m, but will they try and offer any sort of money at all?

  
  Japan won't capitulate. They'll probably send a couple of tanto daggers with a note suggesting the two captives do the job themselves.

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• MrQuike Posts: 18,175

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  20/01/15 - 09:08 #10

  Ads wrote: »

  So despite all the spy technology available to the West, we still can't locate Jihadi John.

  
  He probably flys back to the UK between video appearances.

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• lightdragon Posts: 19,059

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  20/01/15 - 09:33 #11

  I suppose if I wanted to make a point about how tough I am against the Wests constant intervention in the Middle East, I'd go capture a couple of Japanese people too. **rolleyes**
  
  I suppose the brightside is now they look like the clowns they are, and hopefully this is a sign that they are falling apart under their own weight.

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• barbeler Posts: 23,827

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  20/01/15 - 09:44 #12

  They ought to donate the same amount of money to anyone who can supply a certified video of Jihadi John being fed very slowly into an unwashed bacon slicer.

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• Amaretto2 Posts: 2,949

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  20/01/15 - 10:36 #13

  Will this be blamed on "aggressive Western foreign policy" too?

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• welwynrose Posts: 33,666

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  20/01/15 - 11:14 #14

  idlewilde wrote: »

  Japan won't capitulate. They'll probably send a couple of tanto daggers with a note suggesting the two captives do the job themselves.

  
  I know it's probably the wrong subject matter but I did find that funny

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• wear thefoxhat Posts: 3,753

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  20/01/15 - 11:49 #15

  I'm afraid I'm not much of a technology geek, but can't Internet service providers do something to stop these videos from appearing online, or at least get rid of them swiftly, and starve these monsters of the oxygen of publicity?

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• BelfastGuy125 Posts: 7,515

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  20/01/15 - 11:51 #16

  The Japanese are trained in the art of battle. I predict we will hear of a bloody katana fight later today as the captives burst free and slaughter the captors.

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• Philip Wales Posts: 6,373

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  20/01/15 - 13:04 #17

  It seems to be that ISIS are now just going out of their way to alienate themselves from everyone who isn't a radical muslim. Their just turning into gangsters and criminals.

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• Grouty Posts: 34,020

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  20/01/15 - 13:06 #18

  MrQuike wrote: »

  He probably flys back to the UK between video appearances.

  
  I lolled at this, but only because its probably true

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• What name?? Posts: 26,623

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  20/01/15 - 13:12 #19

  Philip Wales wrote: »

  Their just turning into gangsters and criminals.

  
  When were they anything else?

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• Philip Wales Posts: 6,373

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  20/01/15 - 13:16 #20

  Grouty wrote: »

  I lolled at this, but only because its probably true

  
  Worse still the tax payer probably pays for him
  
  @What Name?? yes very true

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• zx50 Posts: 91,266

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  20/01/15 - 13:18 #21

  steveh31 wrote: »

  Is this a slightly different tactic, rather than showing a beheading out of the blue they are now giving a timed warning and asking for money rather than just beheading and posting the video.

  
  I might be wrong, but I think they demanded money from our government for the release of hostages that came from Britain and when they didn't get it, they killed them.

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• zx50 Posts: 91,266

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  20/01/15 - 13:22 #22

  idlewilde wrote: »

  Just common fkn thieves at the end of the day.

  
  IS really are absolute scum. They're the lowest of the low.

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• Takae Posts: 13,555

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  20/01/15 - 14:37 #23

  Ads wrote: »

  Be interesting to see what the Japanese do in this situation. I can't see them paying $200m, but will they try and offer any sort of money at all?

  
  Possibly a lower amount for Goto and probably none for Yukawa.

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• academia Posts: 18,225

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  20/01/15 - 14:42 #24

  welwynrose wrote: »

  I know it's probably the wrong subject matter but I did find that funny

  
  I just can't find anything remotely amusing at the prospect of those two men being beheaded.

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• Kapellmeister Posts: 41,322

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  20/01/15 - 14:46 #25

  academia wrote: »

  I just can't find anything remotely amusing at the prospect of those two men being beheaded.

  
  I agree. The semi-humorous nature of many of the replies is completely out of place and only, I suspect, a consequence of the people involved being Japanese rather than white Westerners.
  
  That said, and there's clearly a problem with diminishing returns for the filth of Islamic State. People adapt to all sorts of horrors. It's how our brain's evolved.

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• Takae Posts: 13,555

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  20/01/15 - 14:52 #26

  Thank you, academia and Kapellmeister. I find those jokes quite upsetting, but I chose not to say anything because I didn't want to create a chance for some to make more similar jokes. Again, thank you for being decent.

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