Terrorism

Even Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra Tried to Negotiate With ISIS to Have British Aid Worker Released

Sky News interviewed a filmmaker that says both al Qaeda and al Nusra terrorist groups tried to negotiate with ISIS to secure the release of Alan Henning, who was just beheaded, because they believed it was wrong and a “bad idea” to target British citizens.

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From Sky News:

Bilal Abdul Kareem told how Mr Henning, who was helping to make an aid delivery in Syria, was captured just an hour after arriving in al-Dana, around 30 minutes from the Turkish border, on Boxing Day.

He said Islamic State fighters had arrived in the town and detained all of those in the convoy but quickly released the Muslim members, holding only Mr Henning.

Mr Kareem said when Mr Henning was first taken he was set to be released later that day or even the next but when that did not happen people started to worry.

Then the jihadists claimed the 47-year-old, father-of-two as their prisoner and said they were planning to exchange him for people in British custody.

Mr Kareem said: “They had a course of action that they were going to take and nobody was going to be able to talk them out of it.

“Even al Qaeda affiliates al Nusra went there to talk to them because nobody outside of ISIS thought this was a good idea, nobody thought that it was OK to do this, none of the other groups were doing that, nobody thought it was a good idea.

“When the al Qaeda representative went to go down and try to talk to them he returned, his face was different, he said something to the effect these guys are really being difficult, really being tough but they did say that they were going to release him.

“Everybody was anticipating that but that never happened.”

On Friday the terrorists posted a video of Mr Henning’s killing. In it he is pictured kneeling in front of a masked man, who speaks with a British accent and is believed to be the man responsible for previous beheadings.

It’s a little hard to believe that the people that murdered American civilians on 9/11 now shy away from beheading one British citizen. Either they have softened after seeing Osama Bin Laden become fish food, or they’re more careful about the political damage such actions and videos might do to their movement among fellow Muslims.

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