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IS Militants 'Behead US Journalist In Video'
Sky News ^ | August 19, 2014

Posted on 08/19/2014 3:34:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Islamic State militants have released a video purportedly showing the beheading of a US journalist who went missing two years ago.

The footage appears to show a masked man - speaking in English with traces of a British accent - killing James Foley, who was seized by armed men in Syria in November 2012.

In the five-minute video, posted on social media sites by Islamic State sources, the group declares that Mr Foley was killed after Barack Obama ordered airstrikes against IS positions in northern Iraq.

The group also claimed to be holding another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and said his life depended on the US president's next move.

White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the administration had seen the video but had not yet confirmed its authenticity.

She said that if it is verified by the intelligence community, the US would be "appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 4ththread; beheading; evil; iraq; islam; islamists
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1 posted on 08/19/2014 3:34:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

ping


2 posted on 08/19/2014 3:36:16 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 08/19/2014 3:36:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: lonevoice

no wonder the Dems and Obama is trying to make this Ferguson convict the cops , cops are bad agenda.
They know they have nothing to run on what so ever, and now more and more are being killed because of his failed foreign policy


4 posted on 08/19/2014 3:37:54 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But Obama traded 5 Gitmo prisoners for one American traitor.


5 posted on 08/19/2014 3:40:41 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘Appalled’? Somehow I don’t think so.


6 posted on 08/19/2014 3:40:50 PM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

he was there to report on the “humanitarian impact of war”.

no more need be said.


7 posted on 08/19/2014 3:41:22 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama smiles. Hey, if Sky covers it, it may actually see the light of day in the American MSM circuit. Not taking any bets on it,,but,,can only hope.


8 posted on 08/19/2014 3:43:42 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

0bama - “Meh” ....


9 posted on 08/19/2014 3:46:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey who are we to condemn this. It is their culture, it is what they do. All cultures are equal and of equal value they are murderers and Western progressives are perverts. We should all learn to accept each other.


10 posted on 08/19/2014 3:47:39 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: manc

Obama is an 15#)#- narcissist who hardly cares about what effects more than himself, or much anyone else.


11 posted on 08/19/2014 3:48:43 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In my Intl relations class, it was said that diplomacy fails and you must resort to force, you keep raising the level of punishment until they are no longer willing to pay the price for what they are doing.

Seems like we have a way to go with people who do not understand anything other than overwhelming and unrelenting force


12 posted on 08/19/2014 3:49:16 PM PDT by navyblue (<u> Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: navyblue

Seems like we have a way to go with people who do not understand anything other than overwhelming and unrelenting force”

Are you referring to Dem communists? That would make sense.


13 posted on 08/19/2014 3:51:17 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Morpheus2009

exactly


14 posted on 08/19/2014 3:51:45 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Religion of Peace!! They’ll saw your head off to prove it.


15 posted on 08/19/2014 3:52:03 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: navyblue

Ultimately that is what will have to be done. But I suppose, in true American fashion, we’ll try everything else first.


16 posted on 08/19/2014 3:54:10 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sickening, just like they did to Daniel Pearl in 2002.


17 posted on 08/19/2014 3:54:47 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: navyblue

War is the final stage of diplomacy.


18 posted on 08/19/2014 3:56:12 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Fai Mao

Yeah, and my sister and bil, both proressives, say “Oh,....they’re just people like us.” When I hear this, I am thinking, where is the barf bag. Oh, and neither one of them have ever been out of the country. They know nothing of these animals.


19 posted on 08/19/2014 3:56:17 PM PDT by navyblue (<u> Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Prayers for Foley and his family.

May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.


20 posted on 08/19/2014 3:57:28 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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