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Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:17 PM Jan 2015

New Apparent ISIS Post Threatens Japanese Hostage, Jordanian Pilot

Source: CNN

(CNN)A video file posted online Tuesday purports to relay a new message from Japanese ISIS hostage Kenji Goto: He and a captive Jordanian military pilot will be killed in the next 24 hours if Jordan doesn't release a convicted would-be suicide bomber.

The file, posted Tuesday morning to YouTube and distributed on social media by known ISIS supporters, appears to show a static image of Goto, alone, in handcuffs and wearing orange, holding a picture of who appears to be the Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kassasbeh.

Over the image, a voice purporting to be Goto's relays the latest threat.

The message is like the one that Goto apparently relayed in a similar online post Saturday, but with a twist: ISIS still would release Goto if Jordan releases prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi, but this time, the lives of Goto and a Jordanian pilot who was captured in Syria last month are threatened.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/27/world/isis-japan-jordan-hostages/

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