ISIS Hostage Says He’ll Be Killed Within 24 Hours
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Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Japanese journalist held by the terror group ISIS said in a chilling new video that he and another captive have been given 24 hours or less to live unless a convicted terrorist is freed from prison.
In a new video uploaded online early Tuesday, journalist Kenji Goto tells the camera he has been told it is his “last message” and that “time is running very short.”
“It is me for her,” he says, referring to Sajida al-Rishawi, a female would-be suicide bomber who confessed to her role in a string of deadly al Qaeda attacks in Jordan in 2005. She has been on death row in Jordan ever since. In a previous video, ISIS first made the demand for al-Rishawi’s release.
Goto says first ISIS will kill a Jordanian pilot they’ve been holding captive, and then himself if the terrorists’ demands aren’t met.
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