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'American Bombing Had Signed My Death Certificate'
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | August 19, 2014 | JAMES NYE, ASHLEY COLEMAN

Posted on 08/19/2014 6:34:20 PM PDT by Steelfish

'American Bombing Had Signed My Death Certificate': Missing US journalist James Wright Foley goes unflinching to his death as ISIS behead him in horrific video, as a warning to Obama American photojournalist James Wright Foley has been beheaded by ISIS forces Foley has been missing since Thanksgiving 2012 while working in Syria ISIS posted the extremely graphic video 'A Message to America' to social media Foley speaks to camera before his death and labels the US his killers Apparently coerced by his captors into speaking against his country A masked and robed member of ISIS speaking English in what is thought to be a British accent addresses the camera too After the execution of Foley, the ISIS member says that missing American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff will be killed next A man identified as Sotloff in a caption on the video is then paraded in front of the camera Beheading comes one day after ISIS threat to America that 'we will drown all you in blood' following the US-aided Kurdish recapture of the Mosul Dam By JAMES NYE, ASHLEY COLEMAN19 August 2014

Horrific video of American freelance photo-journalist James Wright Foley, 40, being beheaded by ISIS in revenge for US airstrikes 12-days ago in Iraq was posted to the internet Tuesday afternoon. Foley, has been missing since November, 2012, after being taken hostage at gunpoint while reporting from Taftanaz, in norMessage to America' to social media as proof of their barbaric actions.thern Syria, for the agency,

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; aqi; beheading; foley; iraq; isil; isis; jamesfoley; jameswrightfoley; journalist; libya; media; sotloff; syria; taftanaz
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To: Steelfish

Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.


41 posted on 08/20/2014 5:20:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: dfwgator

No, but it is a version of “assumption of the risk” for anyone in that capacity. While I think Ernie served an important service back then, to provide that service among the Koranimals, it can only be expected to lose one’s head in a hideous way. The use of Darwin Award is a bit strong, but let’s also not be surprised at the outcomes.


42 posted on 08/20/2014 12:50:09 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: lightman

The world’s changed and it sure isn’t for the better.


43 posted on 08/20/2014 1:03:28 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: carriage_hill

44 posted on 08/21/2014 2:33:17 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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