khad
20th August 2014, 01:17
You may have already heard about this, but it's the first video beheading of an American since the days of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. This reporter for GlobalPost went missing in Syria on November 22, 2012.
He just showed up in the latest Islamic State newsclip, giving a speech before having his head sawed off by a guy with a London accent.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvbZa4NIgAAAfEZ.jpg:large
Message from Foley in the video: (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/world/meast/isis-james-foley/)
Note: I am merely reporting the statement as it is; do not take this as an endorsement
I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers the US Gov. For what will happen to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality.
A message to my parents, save me some dignity and don’t accept some meager compensation for my death from the same people who effectively hit the last nail in my coffin with their recent aerial campaign in Iraq. I call on my brother John, who is a member of the US air force, think about what you are doing, think about the lives you destroy including those of your own family.
I call on you John, think about who made the decision to bomb Iraq recently and, to kill those people whomever they may have been, think john who did they really kill? And did they think about me or our family when they made that decision. I died that day. When your colleagues dropped those bombs and those people they signed death certificate.
I wish I had more time.
I wish I had the hope of freedom and see my family once again but that ship has sailed.
I guess all in all, I wish I wasn’t an American.
What's is a farce is that apparently for the past year and a half, Foley's employers, friends and family were convinced that the Syrian government was holding him and was making demands through Syrian diplomatic channels. These never went anywhere because - big surprise - the Syrian Army never had him.
In effect, this guy's entire professional and personal circle pissed away a year and a half in which they could have actually done something substantive to secure his release. Instead, they chose to grandstand and score political points against Assad.
The Islamic State's brutality is ever escalating in Iraq and Syria, but GlobalPost might as well have personally signed Mr. Foley's death order themselves.
(CNN) -- A U.S. journalist missing in Syria for nearly six months is most likely in Syrian government custody, according to the GlobalPost, an online international news outlet, and the man's brother. Gunmen kidnapped James Foley on November 22 and his family has since worked to obtain his release. Foley, a free-lance journalist, contributed stories to the GlobalPost.
According to a GlobalPost story on Friday, its CEO and president, Philip Balboni, said in a speech marking World Press Freedom Day that the outlet has a "very high degree of confidence" that Foley was "most likely abducted by a pro-regime militia group and turned over to Syrian government forces."
"We have obtained multiple independent reports from very credible confidential sources who have both indirect and direct access that confirm our assessment that Jim is now being held by the Syrian government in a prison or detention facility in the Damascus area," Balboni said.
"We further believe that this facility is under the control of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence service. Based on what we have learned, it is likely Jim is being held with one or more Western journalists, including most likely at least one other American."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bvbsx9WCUAAYmMP.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvbsxygCIAA5HCt.jpg:large
He just showed up in the latest Islamic State newsclip, giving a speech before having his head sawed off by a guy with a London accent.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvbZa4NIgAAAfEZ.jpg:large
Message from Foley in the video: (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/world/meast/isis-james-foley/)
Note: I am merely reporting the statement as it is; do not take this as an endorsement
I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers the US Gov. For what will happen to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality.
A message to my parents, save me some dignity and don’t accept some meager compensation for my death from the same people who effectively hit the last nail in my coffin with their recent aerial campaign in Iraq. I call on my brother John, who is a member of the US air force, think about what you are doing, think about the lives you destroy including those of your own family.
I call on you John, think about who made the decision to bomb Iraq recently and, to kill those people whomever they may have been, think john who did they really kill? And did they think about me or our family when they made that decision. I died that day. When your colleagues dropped those bombs and those people they signed death certificate.
I wish I had more time.
I wish I had the hope of freedom and see my family once again but that ship has sailed.
I guess all in all, I wish I wasn’t an American.
What's is a farce is that apparently for the past year and a half, Foley's employers, friends and family were convinced that the Syrian government was holding him and was making demands through Syrian diplomatic channels. These never went anywhere because - big surprise - the Syrian Army never had him.
In effect, this guy's entire professional and personal circle pissed away a year and a half in which they could have actually done something substantive to secure his release. Instead, they chose to grandstand and score political points against Assad.
The Islamic State's brutality is ever escalating in Iraq and Syria, but GlobalPost might as well have personally signed Mr. Foley's death order themselves.
(CNN) -- A U.S. journalist missing in Syria for nearly six months is most likely in Syrian government custody, according to the GlobalPost, an online international news outlet, and the man's brother. Gunmen kidnapped James Foley on November 22 and his family has since worked to obtain his release. Foley, a free-lance journalist, contributed stories to the GlobalPost.
According to a GlobalPost story on Friday, its CEO and president, Philip Balboni, said in a speech marking World Press Freedom Day that the outlet has a "very high degree of confidence" that Foley was "most likely abducted by a pro-regime militia group and turned over to Syrian government forces."
"We have obtained multiple independent reports from very credible confidential sources who have both indirect and direct access that confirm our assessment that Jim is now being held by the Syrian government in a prison or detention facility in the Damascus area," Balboni said.
"We further believe that this facility is under the control of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence service. Based on what we have learned, it is likely Jim is being held with one or more Western journalists, including most likely at least one other American."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bvbsx9WCUAAYmMP.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvbsxygCIAA5HCt.jpg:large