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.”
“Mah Friends”
McCain and Obama have blood on their hands.
Americans by and large have no clue what Obama has done, and unleashed and is doing to fast-track our destruction.
McCain was just a useful idiot.
Obama is executing an insidious plan.
What a frikkin’ moron.
obama went GOLFING after spending all of 3 minutes without explaining what he was going to do about the terrorists!.
Remember that obama was supporting these terrorists in Syria, calling them moderates and Syrian rebels. He also supports the muslim brotherhood and helped overthrow the Egyptian gov’t. The terrorists started terrorizing and over 1 million Egyptians rose up and threw them up. obama has also turned Libya into another governless country like Somalia. He is not on America’s side!
One strange aspect of this story is that most people seem to have had no knowledge of this guy before he was executed.
Ain’t that our dead Libyan Ambassador next to that grinning jackass in the last photo ?
Did Foley know to much about the truth of the Clinton-Obama Benghazi Massacre?
Is Obama invoking the field-tested, Clinton-Obama Benghazi Rule for the US to not prevent the ongoing genocide of Christians, and Yazidis in current US Ally Iraq?
BTW, the Clinton-Obama Benghazi Rule is as follows:
“1.) ALWAYS STAND DOWN WHEN MUSLIMS ATTACK,
2.) WAIT FOR THE MUSLIMS TO FINISH THEIR BLOOD SPORT KILLING, AND
3.) THEN DO NOTHING.”
All of those Arab/Muslim thugs smiling at “reach across the aisle” McCain; all the while plotting the kidnapping and murder of as many Americans they can get their filthy muslim hands on. McCain is stupid beyond belief!
Idiots ate their own
Obastard will never admit that he has been funding and training terrorists in Syria. He will go to the grave claiming that they are “moderate” Muslims.
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Yes! And while he and McCain were meeting these Islamic "freedom fighters", they were plotting the Ambassador's murder. Think about that. In my opinion, I think McCain is very lucky he returned home. I bet he was also a target. Just imagine if these pervert Muslims had an US Senator as a captive.
Obama isn’t on the side of civilization. He prefers the 7th century savages of ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Is that Chris Stevens to the left of McCain
It is interesting that this is also quite similar to the Holder-Obama Ferguson and Holder-Obama Mexican Border rules.
He was interviewed by BOR after his release in Libya.
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