Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, on Air Force One as he returned to Martha’s Vineyard, according to Eric Schultz, the deputy White House press secretary. Obama was briefed about the video by Benjamin J. Foley’s beheading was uploaded on YouTube, jihadists using the hashtag “#NewMessageFromISIStoUS” surpassed 2,000 tweets, according to a survey by SITE, with many fighters gloating over his death, and calling it just retribution for the air raids. In the three hours after the graphic video of Mr.
Two weeks ago, in the wake of American-led airstrikes against the terrorist group, which was fanning out across Iraq, jihadists had taken to social media to call for attacks on American interests. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world.” We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages. He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people. Foley’s mother, Diane Foley, issued a statement on the Facebook page the family had created to publicize their son’s disappearance: “We have never been prouder of our son Jim. He ends saying that when American soldiers began dropping bombs on Iraq this month, “they signed my death certificate.” Foley says in the video, which was uploaded to the online account of the al-Furqan Media Foundation, according to SITE, an organization that follows jihadist groups. government - for what will happen to me is only a result of their complacent criminality,” Mr. “I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers - the U.S. Foley’s execution is in retaliation for the recent American airstrikes ordered by President Obama against the extremist group in Iraq. Standing to his left is a masked ISIS fighter, who begins speaking in English, with what sounds like an East London accent.
Titled “A Message to America,” the video shows the journalist kneeling in a desert landscape, clad in an orange jumpsuit - an apparent reference to the uniforms worn by prisoners at the American military detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. YouTube later took down the four-minute, 40-second video. Foley’s family was not immediately returned. The authenticity of the video, which was also posted on YouTube, could not be verified, and a telephone call placed to Mr. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posted a video on Tuesday that it said showed the beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who was kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago, according to a transcript released by the SITE Intelligence Group.