In August, a gruesome photograph purportedly of the body of Croatian Tomislav Salopek was released on Twitter. Salopek had been working for a French geophysics company when he was kidnapped in broad daylight on the outskirts of Cairo by a militant group affiliated with the terrorist group known as ISIS, Daesh or, though I do not consider this term accurate or appropriate, the Islamic State. While the world has seen Europeans and Americans beheaded by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, this was the first time such an act was witnessed in Egypt. The terror group has expanded into a country where hundreds of thousands of Westerners holiday and do business each year.…  Seguir leyendo »