Kayla Mueller, Mutah al-Kasaesbeh and Charlie Hebdo

     It has been a while since my last post. I hope everyone's holiday and new year's went well. I spent some of my time away writing and finishing Gladio which was my NaNoWriMo aka National Novel Writer's Month. I took off December from writing.  Now I'm back working on a few novels.  However enough on that.  

     2015 has become an ominous year in the War on Terrorism. Between the Charlie Hebdo and the subsequent attacks in Paris, the kidnapping and beheading of Japanese journalist Goto, the burning of Jordanian hostage fighter pilot Mutah al-Kasaesbeh and now the alleged death of Kayla Mueller by US air strikes.  

  First I would like to sound off on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.  ISIS terrorists shot up a French newspaper because of the depiction of the Prophet Mohammad in an improper manner according to Islam.  Do kill people when a improper portrait of Jesus is made? No! Therefore Moslems shouldn't be going around and killing people when their Prophet is depicted in an inappropriate manner according to their faith.  Then the subsequent hostage takings two days later where a Jewish market and another business were taken hostage.  The terrorist at the Kosher market demanded that the two gunmen who killed people at Charlie Hebdo and are now holding a hostage at a printing business were to be freed at once.  Then came the simultaneous rescue by French commandos where both crisis came to an end.  However there are still Islamists in Frnace waiting to strike again.  All this was due to French colonialism in Algeria and the Levant.  I highly recommend seeing the movie The Battle of Algiers to better understand why the attacks of last month took place.

     That said, this blog now shifts to ISIS territory in Iraq and Syria.  Japanese journalist Goto was executed since Japan didn't pay a ransom for the release of him and a fellow Japanese hostage.  Japan's Prime Minister was in the region when this happened.  Later Goto was executed.  This coming around the same time as Mutah al-Kasaesbeh a Jordanian pilot was executed by being burned in a cage by ISIS.  Since then Jordan executed all 55 ISIS terrorists that they have imprisoned along with getting into the war against ISIS.  What would it take for the U.S. to go at ISIS in a similar manner? Another 9/11 like attack?  It seems that the death of Kayla Mueller hasn't waken up the government to act swiftly and harshly.  ISIS claims that Kayla Mueller was killed in a U.S. air strike. Hasn't it occurred to anyone that she may have been executed before the air strike and ISIS is claiming her death by US air strike as a psychological ploy to make the U.S. feel guilty and divide this nation?  That was my first and only reaction since the news of her death was first released.  ISIS has lied before.  We must keep this in mind before believing that Kayla Mueller was killed in the air strike.  ISIS thrives on misinformation so wouldn't it be another shocker if ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Shabab were not three different terrorist groups but one and the same in order to play another psychological ploy on the rest of the world.  I put nothing past them and I mean NOTHING.  Now we must be on the look out for ISIS attacks throughout Europe, the U.S. and Israel.  We need to fight ISIS in a manner that Jordan has since the execution of al-Kasaesbeh which ratcheted up e brutality of ISIS by several decibels,  it could set a precedent for future and even more barbaric ISIS/al-Qaeda/al-Shabab attacks.