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| Jihadist group releases video of kidnapped Italian, Japanese journalists in Syria |
| 2018-08-02 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] A jihadist group has released videos of a Japanese journalist and an Italian man held captive in Syria in which they appeal for their release, U.S.-based monitors have said. The two men ‐ Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda and Italian national Alessandro Sandrini ‐ appear in two separate videos that are nonetheless similar in their staging and were released by the SITE group, which tracks white supremacist and jihadist organizations. SITE did not say which group was responsible for the videos. Both men are shown kneeling in front of a wall wearing orange jumpsuits while gunnies dressed head-to-toe in black stand behind them. Jumpei is thought to have been kidnapped by the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, in northern Syria in 2015. He identifies himself as Korean in the video but speaks Japanese, giving the recording date as July 25, stating that he is in a bad situation and asking for help. Sandrini gives a different date, July 19, and says that it is his last request to the Italian government. The Italian hostage was kidnapped in ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... in October 2016 before being taken to Syria, according to reports in the Italian media. He is believed to be from Brescia and is said to be around 32 years old. |
| Posted by:Fred |