What does that mean? The taking of foreign citizens in the region occurred long before they were ransomed by the Islamic State. That means the foreign citizens to Syria and Iraq were expected to bring a price when needed. Why hold people for ransom for years unless there was a purpose?
The USA military can expect more of this. THEREFORE....
This civil war isn't going to end. It will become a permanent status of this region of the world. This is more than a civil war, it is ethnically based with automatic induction of ethnic soldiers. Tell women to stop having babies. Kindly, RECALL, the Islamic State institutes ethnic cleaning in it's methodology.
Luke Somers, 33, an American photojournalist who was kidnapped more than a year ago by al-Qaida, photographs a demonstration in Yemen in 2013. Somers and a South African teacher held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen were killed Saturday during a U.S.-led rescue attempt, a raid President Obama said he ordered because of an "imminent danger" to the reporter.
...Somers (click here) was born in England and raised in the U.S., and he was always struck with a bit of wanderlust.
"Luke was the friend that you had in high school or college that you would find kind of inspiring," says Shawn Gillen, who taught him at Beloit College in Wisconsin, "because he was willing to go the distance."
Somers worked as a salmon fisherman in the Arctic, lived in Jamaica and spent time in Egypt before moving to Yemen full-time in 2011. It was there that he took a hobby of photography and turned it into a career.
Tik Root, a freelance journalist who worked in Yemen at the same time as Somers, calls him "an extraordinarily passionate and thoughtful person."...
The USA military can expect more of this. THEREFORE....
This civil war isn't going to end. It will become a permanent status of this region of the world. This is more than a civil war, it is ethnically based with automatic induction of ethnic soldiers. Tell women to stop having babies. Kindly, RECALL, the Islamic State institutes ethnic cleaning in it's methodology.
Luke Somers, 33, an American photojournalist who was kidnapped more than a year ago by al-Qaida, photographs a demonstration in Yemen in 2013. Somers and a South African teacher held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen were killed Saturday during a U.S.-led rescue attempt, a raid President Obama said he ordered because of an "imminent danger" to the reporter....Somers (click here) was born in England and raised in the U.S., and he was always struck with a bit of wanderlust.
"Luke was the friend that you had in high school or college that you would find kind of inspiring," says Shawn Gillen, who taught him at Beloit College in Wisconsin, "because he was willing to go the distance."
Somers worked as a salmon fisherman in the Arctic, lived in Jamaica and spent time in Egypt before moving to Yemen full-time in 2011. It was there that he took a hobby of photography and turned it into a career.
Tik Root, a freelance journalist who worked in Yemen at the same time as Somers, calls him "an extraordinarily passionate and thoughtful person."...
