Video claims to show ISIL beheading American photojournalist

[joeybee12]

A video posted by ISIL terrorists purports to the show the beheading of an American photojournalist who has been missing since 2012. The group claims the beheading is a message to President Obama to end the American intervention in Iraq.


#ISIS beheads photojournalist James Wright Foley in a massage to US to end its intervention in #Iraq. pic.twitter.com/0BNGzz2TIz
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) August 19, 2014

James Foley was a photojournalist who has worked for a variety of news organizations. He was working at Agence France-Presse's company GlobalPost when he went missing. According to a website set up in his honor, he went missing while covering the conflict in Syria in 2012. His disappearance was ruled a kidnapping by the FBI.

In the video, they show journalist Steven Joel Soltoff, a journalist who worked for TIME, The National Interest and Media Line. He last tweeted on August 3rd, 2013. Soltoff went missing on August 4th, 2013 outside of Aleppo, Syria. His family was aware of the situation and was advised not to publicize the information for his safety. He was held in Raqqa.

http://news.yahoo.com/isil-beheads-american-photojournalist-iraq-205910443.html

[lunasun]

2. Accent of the killer pegged as British or African not Iraqi (?)