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Report: US backed talks with ISIS over American hostage

US counter-terrorism officials backed negotiations with two prominent jihadi clerics in a failed attempt to save the life of an American hostage who was later beheaded by Islamic State militants, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.

 

Citing emails, the Guardian said talks with the spiritual leaders of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, aimed at releasing hostage Peter Kassig began in mid-October and ran for several weeks with the knowledge of the FBI.

 

US officials were not immediately available to comment on the newspaper report.

 

Islamic State militants beheaded Kassig, 26, in November. US President Barack Obama said at the time that the killing was "an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity".

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.19.14, 10:40