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New John Cantlie Message Video

ISIS has released Episode 6 of prisoner John Cantlie's "Lend Me Your Ears" video messages. In it, he discusses the failed U.S. rescue attempt of James Foley. He excoriates the U.S. and British governments for not negotiating with ISIS, for threatening James Foley's mother with prosecution if she participated in ransom negotiations, and for abandoning him and the other foreign hostages recently executed.

He says ISIS was holding six foreign hostages, presumably referring to Foley, Sotloff, Haines, Henning, Kassig and himself. He doesn't mention the female U.S. aid worker who reportedly is being held by ISIS. Hopefully, she's just being held in a different place.

Cantlie blasts the hypocrisy, arrogance and lies of the U.S. and Great Britain, saying they treated his life and those of the other English and American hostages like a "roll of the dice" while the other hostages all went home. He is not angry at ISIS.

You can watch the video here, but it probably won't stay up long.

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    not angry at ISIS? (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by markw on Fri Nov 21, 2014 at 05:33:21 PM EST
    I find odd phrases such as "he is not angry at ISIS." I would suggest that it is very hard to assess his true feelings from a video made under duress and threat of death. If he were angry at ISIS, we wouldn't hear about it in an ISIS-released video.