The militant group released a new video threatening to kill the two
Japanese hostages if a ransom of $200m isn’t paid within 72 hours, CNN
reports.
In a video posted online Tuesday, a masked man clad in black and holding a knife stands over two kneeling men in orange jumpsuits against the backdrop of a barren landscape.
The masked man links the threat against the two men’s lives to Japan’s support for the U.S.-led coalition that’s fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
“Although you are more than 8,500 kilometers away from the Islamic State, you willingly volunteered to take part in this crusade,” the man says, addressing his comments to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is currently visiting the Middle East.
The international community needs to “deal with terrorists without giving into them,” Abe said at a news conference in Jerusalem after the release of the video. But he stopped short of explicitly ruling out the payment of a ransom or negotiations with the hostages’ captors.
Abe, who is reorganizing his trip to deal with the hostage crisis, said he had ordered Japanese officials to do the utmost to try to save the two men. The Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo said it was working to confirm the authenticity of the video.
The masked man in the video identifies the two kneeling men as Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa.
Watch here
In similar vein, an execution video released by ISIS which surfaced the internet last week, showing a small boy handling a semi-automatic pistol to execute two alleged Russin spies, left many people across the world stunned.
ISIS, is the self-designated Islamic State, in its self-proclaimed status as a caliphate, it claims religious authority over all Muslims worldwide. It aims to bring most Muslim-inhabited regions of the world under its political control, including Iraq Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, and part of southern Turkey.
In a video posted online Tuesday, a masked man clad in black and holding a knife stands over two kneeling men in orange jumpsuits against the backdrop of a barren landscape.
The masked man links the threat against the two men’s lives to Japan’s support for the U.S.-led coalition that’s fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
“Although you are more than 8,500 kilometers away from the Islamic State, you willingly volunteered to take part in this crusade,” the man says, addressing his comments to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is currently visiting the Middle East.
The international community needs to “deal with terrorists without giving into them,” Abe said at a news conference in Jerusalem after the release of the video. But he stopped short of explicitly ruling out the payment of a ransom or negotiations with the hostages’ captors.
Abe, who is reorganizing his trip to deal with the hostage crisis, said he had ordered Japanese officials to do the utmost to try to save the two men. The Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo said it was working to confirm the authenticity of the video.
The masked man in the video identifies the two kneeling men as Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa.
Watch here
In similar vein, an execution video released by ISIS which surfaced the internet last week, showing a small boy handling a semi-automatic pistol to execute two alleged Russin spies, left many people across the world stunned.
ISIS, is the self-designated Islamic State, in its self-proclaimed status as a caliphate, it claims religious authority over all Muslims worldwide. It aims to bring most Muslim-inhabited regions of the world under its political control, including Iraq Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, and part of southern Turkey.
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