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ISIS Beheads Kenji Goto Japan Hostage January 31
- Published_at:2015-01-31
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:GOD OF NEWS
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- description: A Japanese freelance journalist has become the latest person to be executed by ISIS. The terror group released a video of Kenji Goto, 48, being beheaded on January 31. THE Islamic State claims to have beheaded Japanese hostage Kenji Goto in a sickening new progaganda video, ending days of negotiations by diplomats to save the man. The video, released on militant websites and highlighted by militant sympathizers on social media sites, bore the symbol of the Islamic State group’s al-Furqan media arm. It was also posted on YouTube but was taken down around an hour later. Though the video could not be immediately independently verified by The Associated Press, it conformed to other beheading videos released by the extremists, who now control a third of both Syria and neighboring Iraq in its self-declared caliphate. The video, called “A Message to the Government of Japan,” featured a militant who looked and sounded like a militant with a British accent who has taken part in other beheading videos by the Islamic State group. Goto, kneeling in an orange prison jumpsuit, said nothing in the roughly one-minute-long video. JORDAN TO ISLAMIC STATE: ‘Kill our pilot, we’ll execute jihadists’ HOSTAGE KENJI GOTO: ‘I only have 24 hours to live’ “Abe,” the militant says in the video, referring to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, “because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this man will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin.” Japan said it was “outraged” by the video. “We can’t help but feel extremely outraged at the repeat of another heinous and despicable terrorist act,” government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a press conference in Tokyo. “Again, we strongly condemn it.” U.S. officials said they were trying to confirm the authenticity of the video. “We have seen the video purporting to show that Japanese citizen Kenji Goto has been murdered by the terrorist group ISIL,” said Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the White House’s National Security Council, using an alternate acronym for the extremist group.
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