1. A new air disaster happened in Taiwan today where latest updates have 23 dead as a TranAsia plane crashed after taking off from Songshan airport in Taipei for Kinmen. The 'fortunate thing' about this terrible accident is that the plane missed hitting the residential areas and landed in a river nearby.
Rest in peace to the dead. Live strong for the survivors and the surviving families and friends.
2. "ISIS claims to have burned Jordanian pilot alive: Video - The Straits Times 04 February 2015
BEIRUT (AFP) - The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing a captive Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive, in the militants' most brutal execution yet of a foreign hostage.
The highly produced 22-minute video released online showed images of a man purported to be First Lieutenant Maaz al-Kassasbeh, who was captured in December, engulfed in flames inside a metal cage.
Amman confirmed the death of the 26-year-old, while the video’s authenticity has still not been verified, and vowed an “earth-shattering” response. King Abdullah II cut short a visit to Washington to fly home, state television said.
The military warned that “the blood of the martyr will not have been in shed in vain and... vengeance will be proportional to this catastrophe that has struck all Jordanians”.
A security official said the woman, Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi, and other militants will be executed at dawn on Wednesday. US President Barack Obama immediately denounced the killing. “Should in fact this video be authentic, it’s just one more indication of the viciousness (and) barbarity of this organisation,” Obama said of ISIS.
The United States will “redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of the global coalition to make sure” the group is “ultimately defeated", he added. The chief of the US-led war on ISIS, General Lloyd Austin, condemned the pilot’s murder as “savage” and vowed to “fight this barbaric enemy until it is defeated”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the “sickening murder will only strengthen our resolve to defeat ISIL", another acronym for the group.
Kassasbeh was captured on Dec 24 after his F-16 jet crashed while on a mission over northern Syria as part of the US-led coalition campaign against the militants.
Shiraz Maher, from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, described the footage as “simply the most horrific, disgusting thing I have seen from Islamic State in the last two years”.
“They clearly want to make a real point. This is the first individual whom they have captured who has been directly involved with the Western coalition in fighting ISIS. It is different from the aid workers... This is an act of belligerence”.
“Every time you think they cannot commit anything worse – they open up another trapdoor.”
ISIS claimed in a video released Saturday that it had killed 47-year-old Goto, after previously murdering another Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa. It had previously beheaded two US journalists, an American aid worker and two British aid workers in similar highly choreographed videos. Jordan had vowed to do everything it could to save the pilot but had demanded proof he was still alive before handing over Rishawi.
After the killing of Goto, the UN Security Council condemned the “heinous and cowardly” murder, calling for “the immediate, safe and unconditional release of all those who are kept hostage” by the group."
I DID NOT watch the video. I could not bring myself to watch it as it is NOT Hollywood made-believed movie. It is a REAL person, assuming it is authentic, being BURNED alive!!
Lessons for me are:
1. why is there so much hatreds in ISIS folks? Or it is just for 'publicity' purposes, to be the meanest, most barbaric, irrational and freaking cruel way to put the 'enemies' to death so that EVERYONE will watch and become fearful of ISIS? Or just some SICK and TWISTED 'human beings' using religion to justify this lunacy?;
2. some of many friends lamented there are so much evil things been done in this world. I ask them to think about folks like ISIS and all those who do evil things on earth as a MINORITY. As long as EACH ONE of us, our friends, do ONE GOOD THING a day, the world would have MANY MANY MORE good things been done. ISIS and those sick and evil people WILL always be in the MINORITY! Keep the faith;
3. how should the 'enemies' of ISIS behave towards them? Is this 'an eye for an eye until everyone become blind' or 'slap my right cheek after you slapped my left'? This is an ethical question and depending on what theory of ethics you subscribed to the answer will be different! For the 'there is only ONE principle', then showing mercy to ISIS murderers are the way to go. For the 'weighing of consequence' school of thoughts, it means 'annihilating THIS MINORITY to save the majority' with whatever means and methods is CLEARLY JUSTIFIABLE.
Will we ever have to face similarly 'deranged, sick and evil' foes on our Little Red Dot? And when we do, what stance do we take when we go after them? For me, I sure hope the latter will gain currency with the hope that it will not be abused!
Rest in peace to the dead. Live strong for the survivors and the surviving families and friends.
2. "ISIS claims to have burned Jordanian pilot alive: Video - The Straits Times 04 February 2015
BEIRUT (AFP) - The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing a captive Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive, in the militants' most brutal execution yet of a foreign hostage.
The highly produced 22-minute video released online showed images of a man purported to be First Lieutenant Maaz al-Kassasbeh, who was captured in December, engulfed in flames inside a metal cage.
Amman confirmed the death of the 26-year-old, while the video’s authenticity has still not been verified, and vowed an “earth-shattering” response. King Abdullah II cut short a visit to Washington to fly home, state television said.
The military warned that “the blood of the martyr will not have been in shed in vain and... vengeance will be proportional to this catastrophe that has struck all Jordanians”.
A security official said the woman, Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi, and other militants will be executed at dawn on Wednesday. US President Barack Obama immediately denounced the killing. “Should in fact this video be authentic, it’s just one more indication of the viciousness (and) barbarity of this organisation,” Obama said of ISIS.
The United States will “redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of the global coalition to make sure” the group is “ultimately defeated", he added. The chief of the US-led war on ISIS, General Lloyd Austin, condemned the pilot’s murder as “savage” and vowed to “fight this barbaric enemy until it is defeated”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the “sickening murder will only strengthen our resolve to defeat ISIL", another acronym for the group.
Kassasbeh was captured on Dec 24 after his F-16 jet crashed while on a mission over northern Syria as part of the US-led coalition campaign against the militants.
Shiraz Maher, from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, described the footage as “simply the most horrific, disgusting thing I have seen from Islamic State in the last two years”.
“They clearly want to make a real point. This is the first individual whom they have captured who has been directly involved with the Western coalition in fighting ISIS. It is different from the aid workers... This is an act of belligerence”.
“Every time you think they cannot commit anything worse – they open up another trapdoor.”
ISIS claimed in a video released Saturday that it had killed 47-year-old Goto, after previously murdering another Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa. It had previously beheaded two US journalists, an American aid worker and two British aid workers in similar highly choreographed videos. Jordan had vowed to do everything it could to save the pilot but had demanded proof he was still alive before handing over Rishawi.
After the killing of Goto, the UN Security Council condemned the “heinous and cowardly” murder, calling for “the immediate, safe and unconditional release of all those who are kept hostage” by the group."
I DID NOT watch the video. I could not bring myself to watch it as it is NOT Hollywood made-believed movie. It is a REAL person, assuming it is authentic, being BURNED alive!!
Lessons for me are:
1. why is there so much hatreds in ISIS folks? Or it is just for 'publicity' purposes, to be the meanest, most barbaric, irrational and freaking cruel way to put the 'enemies' to death so that EVERYONE will watch and become fearful of ISIS? Or just some SICK and TWISTED 'human beings' using religion to justify this lunacy?;
2. some of many friends lamented there are so much evil things been done in this world. I ask them to think about folks like ISIS and all those who do evil things on earth as a MINORITY. As long as EACH ONE of us, our friends, do ONE GOOD THING a day, the world would have MANY MANY MORE good things been done. ISIS and those sick and evil people WILL always be in the MINORITY! Keep the faith;
3. how should the 'enemies' of ISIS behave towards them? Is this 'an eye for an eye until everyone become blind' or 'slap my right cheek after you slapped my left'? This is an ethical question and depending on what theory of ethics you subscribed to the answer will be different! For the 'there is only ONE principle', then showing mercy to ISIS murderers are the way to go. For the 'weighing of consequence' school of thoughts, it means 'annihilating THIS MINORITY to save the majority' with whatever means and methods is CLEARLY JUSTIFIABLE.
Will we ever have to face similarly 'deranged, sick and evil' foes on our Little Red Dot? And when we do, what stance do we take when we go after them? For me, I sure hope the latter will gain currency with the hope that it will not be abused!
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