Posted on 08/19/2014 5:02:17 PM PDT by markomalley
An American freelance photojournalist missing since being abducted in Syria some 22 months ago was apparently beheaded by an Islamic State militant in a graphic video released Tuesday.
Titled “A Message to America,” the gruesome clip shows a masked militant saw away at the neck of James Wright Foley, a 40-year-old New Hampshire native captured in Binesh, Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2012.
The family, on its "Free James Foley" Facebook page, has yet to confirm his death.
(snip down to Foley's statement)
“I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers, the U.S. government. For what will happen to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality,” Foley reads as he kneels beside an armed militant, masked and dressed all in black. “My message to my beloved parents: Save me some dignity, and don’t accept some minor 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 U.S. Air Force: Think about what you are doing. Think about the lives you destroy, including those of your own family … I wish I could have the hope of freedom and seeing my family once again, but that ship has sailed. I guess all in all, I wish I wasn’t American.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
(Click on the image above if you need to see the beheaded image unblurred)
The video was on YouTube but was pulled. You can now find it on Liveleak.
While it may have been coerced, Foley's voice is not the monotone that is associated with reading a statement under duress. Frankly, it sounds to me more like somebody who believed his words.
Leftism exacerbated by Stockholm Syndrome?
It sounds like the boys from ISIS are really pissed off over the killing of Brownie the “Gentle Giant”. This was payback.
Don’t worry America! Barry, Eric the Holder, Slick Willie’s wife and the commie ‘RATS “have your back”! LOL!
THE AREA ABOVE HIS NECK APPEARS TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED TO ME, along with other anamolies.
BS.
Kill Japs Kill Japs Kill more Japs.
Make ISIS, WASWAS.
“apparently beheaded”
Apparently!!??
WTF?
Got to be fair, dont’cha know, nothing proved yet. . .
Appear to behead? APPEAR TO BEHEAD?????
What do these people think this is, HOLLYWOOD??
The guy looks like too well fed to be a captive since 2012. May be this is his way of serving ISIS? Suicide Beheading to inflict psychological damage to innocent American psyche.
We have to get the foreign enemy combatant out of our White House so we can actually fight our enemies.
These animals have been doing this crap for weeks, why would the fake it? What would they gain?
Whether this poor soul was 'liberal' or 'conservative' doesn't matter much in the face of a beheading, and per people who have been rescued from such groups there are often several mock executions, before which they are often told to make various statements. For example the same happened when some UK forces were captured by the West Side Rebels in Sierra Leone. Before their rescue by the SBS and SAS they had undergone several mock executions and had been absolutely worn down after several days.
This man was with these guys for a far far longer time.
The prospect.of beheading, coupled with several mock executions, can have most people saying almost anything.
There is a content warning on Liveleak before going to the video.
The image shown on FR is blurred...you have to click on the picture to see the one without blurring.
THE AREA ABOVE HIS NECK APPEARS TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED TO ME, along with other anamolies.
It was a screenshot of the video (taken at 4:28). It was cropped (and the head blurred) using GIMP 2.8.10. That was the only editing done on the picture. I have no way to verify whether the body shown on the video was Foley's.
Dear God in heaven. Prayers up for his family.
James Foley was from my town, graduated from the local high school, and I know his father well. Your speculation is ill-founded, please reconsider your words.
Photoshopped? Do you know how dumb you sound?
Any comment from John McCain?
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