James Wright Foley, Kidnapped Journalist, Apparently Executed by ISIS

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The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) claims to have beheaded an American photojournalist and has threatened the life of another American journalist if President Obama doesn't stop airstrikes in Iraq.

A graphic video obtained by NBC News purportedly shows James Wright Foley, a freelance reporter for the U.S.-based news service GlobalPost who was kidnapped while reporting from Syria two years ago, reciting threats against America before he is executed by an ISIS militant. The militant heard in the video speaks in English.

Foley was kidnapped at gunpoint near the town of Taftanaz in northern Syria on Thanksgiving Day in 2012. He had not been heard from during his time in captivity. "We’ve heard nothing. Nothing. We last knew that he was abducted on Thanksgiving Day in the Idlib province, but we don’t know who took him or why," Foley's father, John, said on TODAY last year.

In the video, ISIS claims they are holding a second journalist, Steven Joel Soltoff. A man on the video is identified as Soltoff and his life is threatened if the United States does not pull out of Iraq.








http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/james-wright-foley-kidnapped-journalist-apparently-executed-isis-n184376

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Kill them.

pasting my response from the LBN version of this story:


I'm a peace-loving, hippie-friendly liberal. And guess what? I personally want to go put a gun in that motherfucker's mouth and make him beg for his life and piss himself before sending him to hell. And I want to obliterate/eradicate/utterly destroy everything about this organization. Yes, I'll get to some calmer place in due time, and I'm sure I'll see the folly of my heat-of-the-moment pronouncement. But right this minute, no matter how wrong-headed our foreign policy can be, no matter how many innocents we've killed in our military adventures, I want to take the most powerful fighting force in the history of history and I want to just blow the fuck out of these subhuman thugs. When a group is so bad as to get the peace-loving types ready to kill, well, they fucked up.

End their lives, Mr. President.

[CJCRANE]

3. That's exactly the reaction the warmongers want.

If everyone reacts like that we'll find ourselves in WWIII.

Just stop and think...

This was actually a British guy killing an American. Not an Iraqi. Think about that.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

4. I'll get to that place eventually, I know I will.

But right now, I'm posting stream-of-consciousness, and I want the fucker's head on a pike at the entrance to Disney World.

[CJCRANE]

5. I don't blame you.

I want these guys gone too but not in a way that gets us sucked into an even bigger quagmire than before..