ISIS videos often signal it's too late for hostages
Clip: 1/30/2015 | 5m 34s
Douglas Ollivant discusses the implications of the latest executions by the Islamic State.
After days of negotiations over a prisoner exchange apparently broke down, the Islamic State on Saturday reportedly executed a Japanese journalist it had been holding in Syria a week after it beheaded another Japanese citizen. Douglas Ollivant, a senior national security fellow at the New America Foundation and a partner at Mantid International, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington.
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ISIS videos often signal it's too late for hostages
Clip: 1/30/2015 | 5m 34s
After days of negotiations over a prisoner exchange apparently broke down, the Islamic State on Saturday reportedly executed a Japanese journalist it had been holding in Syria a week after it beheaded another Japanese citizen. Douglas Ollivant, a senior national security fellow at the New America Foundation and a partner at Mantid International, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington.
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