But in doing so, Kenji Goto suffered his own gruesome fateapparently becoming the latest foreigner to be decapitated by ISIS.
A newly distributed video from ISIS appears to show the beheaded body of the Japanese journalist. It came one week after a video surfaced featuring Goto holding a photo of what appeared to be the corpse of his fellow Japanese captive, Haruna Yukawa.
Just like ISIS’ previous beheading videos, the 67-second footage released Saturday was issued by the terror group’s media wing, Al Furqan Media. The video cannot be authenticated by CNN.
And now, Japan finds itself more deeply embroiled in the global fight against ISIS.
“We are deeply saddened by this despicable and horrendous act of terrorism, and we denounce it in the strongest terms,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, according to broadcaster NHK. “To the terrorists, we will never, never forgive them for this act.”
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Adding to the web of ISIS demands, the terror group said it would kill a Jordanian pilot captured in Syria, Muath al-Kaseasbeh, if terrorist al-Rishawi was not released by Jordan.
If there was no swap, ISIS said, it would kill al-Kaseasbeh.
But the pilot’s fate remains unclear. He was not mentioned in the latest video.
CNN’s Jennifer Deaton, Asoko Ferguson and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.
