ISIS today released video reportedly showing the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto and warning that “every Japanese is a target.”
The IS released a video of beheading Japanese hostage Kenji Goto Jogo pic.twitter.com/ZtLj2Q2Ffy
— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) January 31, 2015
"We by allah's grace are Islamic caliphate with authority & power—an entire army thirsty for your blood,” Islamic State figure tells Japan.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 31, 2015
#ISIS Furqan shows Jihad John executing #KenjiGoto promise"this knife….will also… wherever ur people are found." pic.twitter.com/CSQZpMQF03
— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) January 31, 2015
#ISIS Jihad John:“To the Japanese government: "You, like your foolish allies ..have yet to understand that we,… thirsty for your blood."
— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) January 31, 2015
Just watched the video. The murderer says ISIL is a state "with authority & power" which is "thirsty of your blood." pic.twitter.com/G8VdCHoURk
— Sadegh Ghorbani (@GhorbaniSadegh) January 31, 2015
https://twitter.com/MsIntervention/status/561622348051513344
#ISIS video warns #Japan's PM Shinzo Abe "because of reckless decision to take part in unwinnable war, let the nightmare for Japan begin."
— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) January 31, 2015
https://twitter.com/zaidbenjamin/status/561620564729929728
#Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on #KenjiGoto: “Atrocious act of terrorism been committed. We are outraged by horrific act.”
— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) January 31, 2015
White House says "we stand in solidarity with our ally Japan" following apparent ISIS execution of Japanese reporter Kenji Goto – @c_good
— ABC News (@ABC) January 31, 2015
NSC on apparent beheading: US "strongly condemns ISIL’s actions and we call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 31, 2015
https://twitter.com/BklynMiddleton/status/561639292997738496
#ISIS & its supporters on #twitter are celebrating the new vid beheading of #KenjiGoto .Twitter is flooded wit vid. beheading images
— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) January 31, 2015
#WakeUpTwitter: #KenjiGoto beheading was posted first on Twitter.Countless accts shutdown YET Twitter remains haven for terror propaganda rt
— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) January 31, 2015
Kenji Goto, a journalist committed to telling "humane stories” from world’s conflict zones. https://t.co/pLDbhgF9Os pic.twitter.com/uCbthiXptl
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) January 31, 2015
Words cannot express the evilness of the #ISIS murderers who say they have killed #KenjiGoto. He is a heroic journalist, father, human being
— Henry Tricks (@HenryTricks) January 31, 2015
All I read about Kenji Goto just convinces me he was exactly the kind of man that reporting (&his daughter) need most RIP.
— Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) January 31, 2015
Many Western journalists and others are choosing to remember Kenji Goto as a free man.
. @IanJSherwood Remember #KenjiGoto like this, not a photograph of him with a masked coward armed with a knife. pic.twitter.com/E7xqXB2loo
— David Clinch (@DavidClinchNews) January 31, 2015
RIP #KenjiGoto pic.twitter.com/AI9WplzQoo
— Gus (@Gus_802) January 31, 2015
Another person who deeply cared for Syrian people is gruesomely murdered by those who claim to defend Syrian people pic.twitter.com/6dzu0D6Ofg
— Ali H. Soufan (@Ali_H_Soufan) January 31, 2015
The image of #KenjiGoto that should be on our timelines tonight. RIP pic.twitter.com/kKYsDrUlFh
— Seif Usher ?? ?? سيف اشر (@seifusher) January 31, 2015
The new video includes no word on the whereabouts of a Jordanian fighter pilot who was captured by ISIS December 24.
#ISIS new video beheading of #KenjiGoto didn't mention the fate of #Jordanianpilot Mu’adh al-Kasasibah pic.twitter.com/YIscAOssSn
— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) January 31, 2015
No word tonight on fate of Jordanian pilot held by ISIS. Female terrorist remains on death row in Jordan @WNTonight @GMA
— Brian Ross Investigates (@BrianRoss) January 31, 2015
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