JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
AL RASSOOLI SITE.
http://www.al-rassooli.com/
http://www.al-rassooli.com/blog/
AL ON LAURIE ROTH EVERY TUESDAY
http://therothshow.com/
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/january-2015/
FAITH GOLDY
https://twitter.com/faithgoldy
https://www.facebook.com/FaithGoldySun
http://www.faithgoldy.ca/
SUN NEWS NETWORK
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/sunnewsnetwork
https://twitter.com/sunnewsnetwork
EZRA LEVANT
https://twitter.com/ezralevant
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ezra-Levant/131404586952777
http://www.ezralevant.com/
OTHER ISIS BEHEADINGS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/11/isis-beheads-american-aid-worker-peter.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/10/its-now-reported-that-isis-has-beheaded.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/david-haines-44-british-hostage.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/sotloff-and-foley-only-two-of-thousands.html
ISIS THREATENS 2 KILL 2 JAPANESE HOSTAGES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVy3WEc5uNM
UPDATE-SAT JAN 24,2015-03:07PM
IT SEEMS ISIS WANTS TO SWAP THE 2ND JAPANESE HOSTAGE THAT WAS NOT KILLED YET.FOR A WOMAN TERRORIST IN JORDAN.WHO WAS A SUICIDE BOMBER. NOW WHY WOULD ISIS WANT A WOMAN SUICIDE BOMBER.BUT TO PROMOTE AND CONVINCE WOMEN TO BE SUICIDE BOMBERS.OVIOUSLY.OR TO CONN YOUNG GIRLS AND WOMEN TO FIGHT FOR ISIS.SO ISIS CAN USE THESE GIRLS AND WOMEN AS SEX SLAVES OR WIVES.OR SELL THEM TO OTHER ISLAMIC CULT MUSLIMS.AND WHY WOULD JAPAN WANNA TEAM UP WITH JORDAN.TO GET A HOSTAGE SET FREE.AND WHY WOULD JORDAN WANNA SET THIS MURDERER SUICIDE WOMAN SET FREE.FOR A JAPANESE HOSTAGE.THERES SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON WITH THIS ISIS PRISONER SWAP.THE HOSTAGE KILLED BY ISIS WAS GAY.WHY WOULD ISIS NOT HAVE KILLED THE GAY HOSTAGE EARLIAR.ISIS IS PLAYING SOME KINDA GAME THIS TIME.ISIS WOULD HAVE KNOWN.JAPAN OR NO COUNTRY WOULD PAY 200 MILLION DOLLARS FOR A HOSTAGE.BUT WHY WOULD THEY KILL ONE.THEN ASK JAPAN FOR A WOMAN PRISONER SWAP WITH JORDAN. AND NOT A MUSLIM PRISONER IN A JAPANESE JAIL IS MY QUESTION.ISIS OVIOUSLY WANTS TO CONN YOUNG WESTERN GIRLS INTO BEING SUICIDE BOMBERS.ISIS KNOWS DARN WELL.THAT WOMEN CAN SEDUCE WESTERN MEN INTO THE ISLAMIC CULT WITH SEX ALSO.SO THIS MIGHT BE THE LATEST ISIS DECEPTION.TO USE WESTERN GIRLS TO HAVE SEX WITH WESTERN MEN.AND THEN THE GIRLS AND WOMEN.CONN AND TRAIN THE GUYS TO BE SUICIDE BOMBERS. AND THE WOMEN SUICIDE BOMBERS.CAN TRY TO CONN WOMEN AND GIRLS.INTO BEING SUICIDE BOMBERS OR TO BE TRAINED TO HAVE SEX WITH WESTERN MEN.TO CONN THEN INTO CONVERTING TO ISLAM.AND FIGHTING FOR ISIS.
REPORTS SAY ISIS HAS BEHEADED NUMBER 6 HELD HOSTAGE HARUNA YUKAWA ONE OF THE TWO JAPANESE HOSTAGES HELD.AND ISIS WANTS THE 7TH HOSTAGE EXCHANGED.The Japanese government is trying to verify video indicating militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group may have killed hostage Haruna Yukawa.The purported message also claims the group is now demanding a prisoner exchange for the remaining hostage, Kenji Goto.
Japan says web clip claiming death of IS hostage 'outrageous'-Reuters-jan 24,15-yahoonews
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan early on Sunday strongly criticized a recording purporting to announce the execution of a Japanese citizen held by Islamic State militants and demanded the immediate release of another captive depicted as appearing on the image.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, in a brief televised statement, said the recording appeared to show captive Haruna Yukawa being killed."This is an outrageous and unacceptable act," Suga said. "We strongly demand the prompt release of the remaining Mr. Kenji Goto, without harm."Suga read the statement and declined to take questions.(Reporting by William Mallard, editing by David Evans)
Japan says will not give in to 'terrorism' after IS kidnapping-UPDATED: 20 Jan 2015 16:32-CNA
BEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) group has threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless it receives a US$200 million ransom within 72 hours, but Tokyo vowed on Tuesday (Jan 20) it would not give in to "terrorism".IS has murdered five Western hostages since August last year, but it is the first time that the militant group - which has seized swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq - has threatened Japanese captives.In footage posted on militant websites, a black-clad militant brandishing a knife addresses the camera in English, standing between two hostages wearing orange jumpsuits."You now have 72 hours to pressure your government into making a wise decision by paying the US$200 million to save the lives of your citizens," he says.The militant says that the ransom demand is to compensate for non-military aid that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to support countries affected by the campaign against IS during an ongoing Middle East tour that on Tuesday saw him in Jerusalem.But the Japanese government said it would not bow to extremism. "Our country's stance - contributing to the fight against terrorism without giving in - remains unchanged," chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a news conference in Tokyo.An official in the foreign ministry's terrorism prevention division had said earlier that the government was investigating the threat and the authenticity of the video.Since August, IS has murdered three Americans and two Britons, posting grisly video footage of their executions. US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, American aid worker Peter Kassig and British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines were all beheaded.The militant who appeared in the video threatening the Japanese hostages spoke with a very similar southern English accent to the militant who appeared in the footage posted of the executions of the Britons and Americans.
ABE IN MIDEAST
Abe, who was due to give a Jerusalem news conference, pledged a total of US$2.5 billion in humanitarian and development aid for the Middle East on the first leg of his tour in Cairo on Saturday.He promised US$200 million in non-military assistance for countries affected by the IS group's bloody expansion in Iraq and Syria, which spurred an exodus of refugees to neighbouring countries.The first hostage - Kenji Goto - is a freelance journalist who set up a video production company, named Independent Press in Tokyo in 1996, feeding video documentaries on the Middle East and other regions to Japanese television networks, including public broadcaster NHK. He was born in Sendai, Miyagi, in 1967, according to the company's website.The second hostage appeared in previous footage posted last August in which he identified himself as Haruna Yukawa and was shown being roughly interrogated by his captors. Another online video that appeared at the time showed a man believed to be Yukawa test-firing an AK-47 assault rifle in Syria.The same video could be seen on the website of Tokyo-based private military firm PMC, which listed Yukawa as its chief executive. Calls to the firm at the time went unanswered and it was unclear if the company had other employees. Its website said the firm has branch offices in "Turkey, Syria, Africa". Japanese nationals' involvement as combatants in foreign conflicts is limited, although the country's extensive media is usually well-represented in hot spots. Japan has been relatively isolated from the Islamist violence that has hit other developed countries, having tended to stay away from US-led military interventions.The country was rocked in early 2013 when militants overran a remote gas plant in the Algerian desert. The four-day ordeal that involved hundreds of hostages ended when Algerian commandos stormed the plant. Ten Japanese died, giving the country the single biggest body count.The hostage-takers said they had launched the raid in response to military action against extremists in Mali. In response, Tokyo pledged US$120 million in fresh aid to help stabilise the militant-infested Sahel region, which runs across North Africa.- AFP/rw/ir
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
AL RASSOOLI SITE.
http://www.al-rassooli.com/
http://www.al-rassooli.com/blog/
AL ON LAURIE ROTH EVERY TUESDAY
http://therothshow.com/
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/january-2015/
FAITH GOLDY
https://twitter.com/faithgoldy
https://www.facebook.com/FaithGoldySun
http://www.faithgoldy.ca/
SUN NEWS NETWORK
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/sunnewsnetwork
https://twitter.com/sunnewsnetwork
EZRA LEVANT
https://twitter.com/ezralevant
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ezra-Levant/131404586952777
http://www.ezralevant.com/
OTHER ISIS BEHEADINGS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/11/isis-beheads-american-aid-worker-peter.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/10/its-now-reported-that-isis-has-beheaded.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/david-haines-44-british-hostage.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/sotloff-and-foley-only-two-of-thousands.html
ISIS THREATENS 2 KILL 2 JAPANESE HOSTAGES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVy3WEc5uNM
UPDATE-SAT JAN 24,2015-03:07PM
IT SEEMS ISIS WANTS TO SWAP THE 2ND JAPANESE HOSTAGE THAT WAS NOT KILLED YET.FOR A WOMAN TERRORIST IN JORDAN.WHO WAS A SUICIDE BOMBER. NOW WHY WOULD ISIS WANT A WOMAN SUICIDE BOMBER.BUT TO PROMOTE AND CONVINCE WOMEN TO BE SUICIDE BOMBERS.OVIOUSLY.OR TO CONN YOUNG GIRLS AND WOMEN TO FIGHT FOR ISIS.SO ISIS CAN USE THESE GIRLS AND WOMEN AS SEX SLAVES OR WIVES.OR SELL THEM TO OTHER ISLAMIC CULT MUSLIMS.AND WHY WOULD JAPAN WANNA TEAM UP WITH JORDAN.TO GET A HOSTAGE SET FREE.AND WHY WOULD JORDAN WANNA SET THIS MURDERER SUICIDE WOMAN SET FREE.FOR A JAPANESE HOSTAGE.THERES SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON WITH THIS ISIS PRISONER SWAP.THE HOSTAGE KILLED BY ISIS WAS GAY.WHY WOULD ISIS NOT HAVE KILLED THE GAY HOSTAGE EARLIAR.ISIS IS PLAYING SOME KINDA GAME THIS TIME.ISIS WOULD HAVE KNOWN.JAPAN OR NO COUNTRY WOULD PAY 200 MILLION DOLLARS FOR A HOSTAGE.BUT WHY WOULD THEY KILL ONE.THEN ASK JAPAN FOR A WOMAN PRISONER SWAP WITH JORDAN. AND NOT A MUSLIM PRISONER IN A JAPANESE JAIL IS MY QUESTION.ISIS OVIOUSLY WANTS TO CONN YOUNG WESTERN GIRLS INTO BEING SUICIDE BOMBERS.ISIS KNOWS DARN WELL.THAT WOMEN CAN SEDUCE WESTERN MEN INTO THE ISLAMIC CULT WITH SEX ALSO.SO THIS MIGHT BE THE LATEST ISIS DECEPTION.TO USE WESTERN GIRLS TO HAVE SEX WITH WESTERN MEN.AND THEN THE GIRLS AND WOMEN.CONN AND TRAIN THE GUYS TO BE SUICIDE BOMBERS. AND THE WOMEN SUICIDE BOMBERS.CAN TRY TO CONN WOMEN AND GIRLS.INTO BEING SUICIDE BOMBERS OR TO BE TRAINED TO HAVE SEX WITH WESTERN MEN.TO CONN THEN INTO CONVERTING TO ISLAM.AND FIGHTING FOR ISIS.
REPORTS SAY ISIS HAS BEHEADED NUMBER 6 HELD HOSTAGE HARUNA YUKAWA ONE OF THE TWO JAPANESE HOSTAGES HELD.AND ISIS WANTS THE 7TH HOSTAGE EXCHANGED.The Japanese government is trying to verify video indicating militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group may have killed hostage Haruna Yukawa.The purported message also claims the group is now demanding a prisoner exchange for the remaining hostage, Kenji Goto.
Japan says web clip claiming death of IS hostage 'outrageous'-Reuters-jan 24,15-yahoonews
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan early on Sunday strongly criticized a recording purporting to announce the execution of a Japanese citizen held by Islamic State militants and demanded the immediate release of another captive depicted as appearing on the image.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, in a brief televised statement, said the recording appeared to show captive Haruna Yukawa being killed."This is an outrageous and unacceptable act," Suga said. "We strongly demand the prompt release of the remaining Mr. Kenji Goto, without harm."Suga read the statement and declined to take questions.(Reporting by William Mallard, editing by David Evans)
Japan says will not give in to 'terrorism' after IS kidnapping-UPDATED: 20 Jan 2015 16:32-CNA
BEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) group has threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless it receives a US$200 million ransom within 72 hours, but Tokyo vowed on Tuesday (Jan 20) it would not give in to "terrorism".IS has murdered five Western hostages since August last year, but it is the first time that the militant group - which has seized swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq - has threatened Japanese captives.In footage posted on militant websites, a black-clad militant brandishing a knife addresses the camera in English, standing between two hostages wearing orange jumpsuits."You now have 72 hours to pressure your government into making a wise decision by paying the US$200 million to save the lives of your citizens," he says.The militant says that the ransom demand is to compensate for non-military aid that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to support countries affected by the campaign against IS during an ongoing Middle East tour that on Tuesday saw him in Jerusalem.But the Japanese government said it would not bow to extremism. "Our country's stance - contributing to the fight against terrorism without giving in - remains unchanged," chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a news conference in Tokyo.An official in the foreign ministry's terrorism prevention division had said earlier that the government was investigating the threat and the authenticity of the video.Since August, IS has murdered three Americans and two Britons, posting grisly video footage of their executions. US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, American aid worker Peter Kassig and British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines were all beheaded.The militant who appeared in the video threatening the Japanese hostages spoke with a very similar southern English accent to the militant who appeared in the footage posted of the executions of the Britons and Americans.
ABE IN MIDEAST
Abe, who was due to give a Jerusalem news conference, pledged a total of US$2.5 billion in humanitarian and development aid for the Middle East on the first leg of his tour in Cairo on Saturday.He promised US$200 million in non-military assistance for countries affected by the IS group's bloody expansion in Iraq and Syria, which spurred an exodus of refugees to neighbouring countries.The first hostage - Kenji Goto - is a freelance journalist who set up a video production company, named Independent Press in Tokyo in 1996, feeding video documentaries on the Middle East and other regions to Japanese television networks, including public broadcaster NHK. He was born in Sendai, Miyagi, in 1967, according to the company's website.The second hostage appeared in previous footage posted last August in which he identified himself as Haruna Yukawa and was shown being roughly interrogated by his captors. Another online video that appeared at the time showed a man believed to be Yukawa test-firing an AK-47 assault rifle in Syria.The same video could be seen on the website of Tokyo-based private military firm PMC, which listed Yukawa as its chief executive. Calls to the firm at the time went unanswered and it was unclear if the company had other employees. Its website said the firm has branch offices in "Turkey, Syria, Africa". Japanese nationals' involvement as combatants in foreign conflicts is limited, although the country's extensive media is usually well-represented in hot spots. Japan has been relatively isolated from the Islamist violence that has hit other developed countries, having tended to stay away from US-led military interventions.The country was rocked in early 2013 when militants overran a remote gas plant in the Algerian desert. The four-day ordeal that involved hundreds of hostages ended when Algerian commandos stormed the plant. Ten Japanese died, giving the country the single biggest body count.The hostage-takers said they had launched the raid in response to military action against extremists in Mali. In response, Tokyo pledged US$120 million in fresh aid to help stabilise the militant-infested Sahel region, which runs across North Africa.- AFP/rw/ir
This image released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) group's al-Furqan media arm on Jan. 20 purports to show the
group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages that the militants
identify as Kenji Goto Jogo, left, and Haruna Yukawa, right, unless a
ransom is paid within 72 hours. (Associated Press)
