The Islamic state has released a video beheading an American journalist James Foley. Foley, who was 40 years old was kidnapped in November 2012 along with another journalist while he was covering a war in Syria. Dressed in orange, he is seen kneeling
next to a man dressed in black. Foley reads a message which presumably is scripted by his abductors, that his real killer is America.
The 40-year old journalist was kidnapped in Libya too where he was previously working. His parents mounted a massive campaign and were successful in rescuing him. Foley wanted to be committed to his role as a journalist, and went back to conflict zones and continued to produce human-led stories on war which had a heavy humanitarian impact.
This video which shows Foley’s beheading is too gruesome to show. After that it also shows another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, a contributor to TIME magazine, who was kidnapped at the Syrian-Turkish border in 2013. In the video, the terrorist says that his life is hanging in the balance depending on what President Barack Obama does next. Clearly this video is a message to Barack Obama to stop pulling out airstrikes and stop supporting Kurdish and Iraqi forces otherwise the Steve would be beheaded too.
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