James Foley, a journalist who had
been disappeared in Syria since 2012, the Islamic State militants has claimed
to be killed a reporter on 19th August, Tuesday.
The Islamic Militants released an
online video on Tuesday which shows a masked ISIS member beheading a kneeling
man who dressed in an orange jumpsuit purported to be James Wright Foley, who
went missing approximately two years ago.
The militants said it was the
revenge for US air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.
James Foley a correspondent for
the Global Post had been kidnapped in Libya where he was reporting on the civil
war with other three journalists, who had filed stories for USA Today and the
Atlantic, including a freelance reporter named Clare Morgana Gillis.
Foley's mother Diane said on
Facebook she was proud of her son: "He gave his life trying to expose the
world to the suffering of the Syrian people."
The White House said if the video
was genuine, the US would be "appalled".
The hope of his family also died after
the video post by the jihadist group ISIS. Foley’s wife appealed to the militants
to free other captives.
It was the struggle of Foley which
shows that Jim's value was so much more. The journalist death is the direct
result of US bombing of IS targets in Iraq.
The global post asked for prayers
for Jim and his family.
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