Catholic priest kidnapped by employees of the USA, UK and France

Have the leaders of the supposedly "free" world lost all sense of decency?  Decent human beings will never bring themselves to arm, fund and support killers, kidnappers, torturers and madmen. 

Giorgio Bernardelli writing at VaticanInsider:
Friday went by and still no news  ....from the Jesuit priest Paolo Dall’Oglio who went off the grid on Monday. This means it is likely the priest was kidnapped. Over the past few days, activists have been claiming that Dall’Oglio had gone silent because he was involved in a mediation attempt. They said Dall’Oglio had told them to raise the alarm only if they had no news from him by Friday. And there has been no sign of him so far.

A tweet sent today from Jan Bartha’s account shows concern is growing. Bartha is a researcher friend of Dall’Oglio’s living in Raqqa, a city in Northern Syria where the priest had arrived last Saturday from Turkey. On Sunday he spoke at a demonstration. “Unfortunately I can confirm that Fr. Paolo has officially been kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS),” he wrote in response to one of Fr. Dall’Oglio’s fellow brothers who was asking him if he had heard from the priest. On Tuesday, Bartha claimed he had been with Fr. Dall’Oglio “up until five minutes ago.”

Beyond this news, which is always hard to verify, there is something else that is causing even greater concern: developments in Northern Syria. Various sources claim that one of the reasons why Fr. Dall’Oglio went to the area was to try to heal the internal rift between Kurds and Islamists, the war within a war between Assad’s opponents, which had been brewing for weeks and finally exploded into a violent conflict in recent days. 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) bulletin states that at least twelve jihadists were killed by the Kurds against the more than twenty two Kurds that were killed by jihadists. The conflict apparently mainly concentrated around the city of Ras al-Ain; the Kurds claim there are two hundred people being held hostage by ISIS. The Syria Comment blog – another usually reliable source of information – published the translation of what constituted a real war declaration against the PKK, signed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and by other fighter groups. In the declaration, the PKK is accused of betrayal and of acting on behalf of the enemy Bashar al-Assad. If Fr. Dall’Oglio went to see the heads of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to defend the Kurdish cause, he really does find himself between a rock and a hard place............