Posted on 08/20/2014 7:42:38 PM PDT by markomalley
Then he was turned over to the Islamic State as a token of this Free Syrian Army group’s allegiance to the new caliphate. The Free Syrian Army are the “moderates” to whom the Obama Administration has given weapons in Syria. Thus the incoherence of the Obama foreign policy is laid bare: he is funding what he considers to be heroic freedom fighters in Syria who, when they cross over into Iraq, become bloodthirsty terrorists.
“James Foley Allegedly Used As Token Of Allegiance By Group That Joined ISIS,” by Erin Banco, International Business Times, August 20, 2014:
According to Syrian sources who have worked previously to locate and rescue kidnapped journalists in Syria, American journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by Islamic State in a video the militant group made public on Tuesday, was most likely used by another guerrilla group as a token of allegiance to ISIS.
According to those sources, Foley was in the hands of the Dawood Bridgade, a group that was originally aligned with relatively moderate opposition groups such as the Free Syrian Army, but recently pledged allegiance to ISIS.
The International Business Times reported last month that activists on the ground near Al Bab, Syria, said that the Dawood Brigade, which now consists of about 1,000 people, defected from the Free Syrian Army and moved on to Raqqa to join ISIS. The group arrived in Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold, in a convoy of more than 100 vehicles.
The Dawood Brigade, which used to be called Jaysh al-Mujahedin (Mujahedin Army), but changed its name in late 2012, was originally under the direction of Abu Mohammed al-Shami al-Absi. The group was rumored to have been responsible for the kidnapping of John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans, who went missing in Syria in 2012, according to the Syrian sources. The two journalists were rescued by another rebel faction, and escaped.
After their release from captivity, the two journalists described their captors, saying that many of them had British accents — like the man who was seen in the ISIS video killing Foley.
Cantlie, a freelance photographer, apparently went back into Syria with Foley in the fall of 2012.
The Dawood Brigade joined in an alliance with the Suqour al-Sham (Falcons of the Levant) in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of the northwestern province of Idlib. As the war progressed, Suqour al-Sham and Dawood expanded their influence to areas such as Damascus and Aleppo. The group also got a new leader, Hassan Abboud.
No details about Foley’s captors have yet been released by the State Department, the White House or Global Post.
In the past two years, rumors have circulated about the whereabouts of several kidnapped American journalists in Syria and how exactly they went missing. For the parents of those missing, releasing information about their children has not always been an easy decision. Like with many investigations, releasing too much information could make matters worse. In the case of James Foley, his family and Global Post decided to keep whatever information they might have possessed about his captors secret to protect him.
“Although GlobalPost’s investigation at one point led us to believe that James was being held by the Syrian government, we later were given strong reason to believe he was being held by Islamic militants in Syria,” Philip Balboni, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder, said Tuesday. “We withheld this information at the request of the family and on the advice of authorities cooperating in the effort to protect Jim. GlobalPost, working with a private security company, has amassed an enormous amount of information that has not been made public.”
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- No pizza
- No Just-Us
- Let’s give Muzzzies another 900 years to evolve -
- If they still do not use toilet paper by then we should bring back the research on the neutron bombs and bomblets and carpet bomb/missle crap on all muzzies
- It’s a plan - not a golf date with a bisexual pro golfer &/or retired NBA star
Active Duty ping.
Stay safe.
Looks like him.
A Banana Republic foreign policy is better than this goat screw.
Today I just heard McLame on KFYI (Phoenix talk) whine about the lack of support the Free Syrian Army was getting from Obama. I swear that our leaders have been eating lead paint chips since childhood.
Hey, Prince Barack was too busy making his final four picks to worry about the possible threats of some JV Islmaist group.
If you read his tweets he sounds like a naive goof and an Obama supporter.
I know, I'm being redundant.
His tweets seem to indicate he bought into the politically correct nonsense about the peace loving, moderate Muslims. He also criticized conservatives and he was supportive of Obama.
The Obama Administration was arming, training and funding the Muslim terrorists who are now called IS or whatever in the ridiculous belief that they were moderate and would overthrow the Syrian government.
I think McCain is just a scatter brained goofball. Kind of like his daughter. He was just lucky to have a father who was a high ranking Admiral, an extremely wealthy second wife and a MSM that seems to want to help him.
Love the due sitting at the desk staring McAmnesty down with a smirk on his face. He know an idiot when he sees one.
So, in short, Obama and McCain wanted the US to enter a war in Syria on the side of ISIS. That's comparable to, say, Bush entering Afghanistan right after 9/11 to bomb the enemies of Al-Quaeda.
(At the time, it was thought that Obama was funding Al Qaeda through these groups...I guess, though, that's a distinction without a difference)
Have you noticed that the only so-called "Arab Spring" revolts not supported by The Regime have been those that would have rid the world of Islamist despots? Revolts such as:
Some journalists (including one from ABC who visited Bin Laden pre-9/11 and another I think Australian who went into Fallujah) have to permit themselves to be taken hostage/kidnapped to be presented to their interview subject.
BINGO!
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