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 ...
And eric the louse and zippy the a##clown concentrate on protecting the thug and the thug life in ferguson
Interesting take. You are giving the victim the benefit of the doubt here, and that is exactly the right thing to do.
The FR folks here who something think he was somehow complicit in all this - or that he deserved it - well, I am ashamed to be associated with them.
The FR folks here who something think he was somehow complicit in all this - or that he deserved it - well, I am ashamed to be associated with them.
Reminds me of the guy who lived with the grizzly bears and was killed ....
it’s more like 95% are liberals
I wonder if Obama exchanging the Terror king pins for a traitor sent the message that he will do anything to keep an American alive?
If so, then it’s Barack’s fault.
A great many Jews are secular and don’t give a rat’s behind for your Torah. I hardly expect them to save me from the Caliphate. We are being punished for turning from God. Jews of all people should recognize that. The Lord wins in the end; there will be suffering in the meantime.
U.S. has confirmed video is absolutely authentic.
Not that I had any doubt. This is just horrible.
A new wrinkle in the story?:
James Foley Went Looking to Support Terrorists in Syria, Instead They Cut Off His Head
FR link:
James Foley Went Looking to Support Terrorists in Syria, Instead They Cut Off His Head
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