"One Heartbeat Away" Foot-in-Mouth Disease Biden "Apologises" to Arab Emirates, Turkey for their "Supporting ISIS" Gaffe. Canadian ISIS Fighter Killed/

The United Arab Emirates says US Vice President Joe Biden has apologised to the Abu Dhabi crown prince for “any implications” in remarks he made last week that the UAE had supported fighters in Syria.

Sunday’s phone call, confirmed by US officials, came after a day after Biden offered a similar apology to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Biden, who is known for his occasional verbal gaffes, angered US allies when he suggested in a speech at Harvard University on Thursday that Turkey, Qatar and the UAE had extended “billions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” to Sunni fighters trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, Syk from Iraq, but it is Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere who have most to worry about from the Islamic State. Even the brutal and horrifying decapitation of the journalist James Foley doesn’t change anything – the number of Iraqis executed by Islamic State fighters is far, far

worse. 

Meanwhile, a Canadian National fighting with ISIS forces has been confirmed dead

“I was like any other regular Canadian. I watched hockey, I went to the cottage in the summertime, I loved to fish, I wanted to go hunting… I was a regular person,” said Abu Muslim in the last video he recorded before his death. And then came his pitch: “Everyone can contribute something to the Islamic State, as it is obligatory on us … If you have knowledge on how to build roads and houses, you can be of use here.”

Andre Poulin, as he was named at birth, was confirmed dead in January of this year and one of the first known Canadians fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria. The recruitment video, released in July as the Islamic State gathered strength, took many experts by surprise for how “slick” it was. But more than that, it played on the paranoia of governments around the world that their citizens could be heading in the same direction.