Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Islamic State claims it executed American photojournalist James Foley - The Washington Post

Islamic State claims it executed American photojournalist James Foley - The Washington Post: The Islamic State militant group claimed Tuesday to have beheaded an American photojournalist in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq.

A video posted on YouTube, later removed, purported to show the execution of James Foley after he recited a statement in which he called the U.S. government “my real killers.” A second prisoner, said to be Steven Joel Sotloff, like Foley an American journalist who disappeared while covering Syria’s civil war, then appears in the video.







 Both prisoners in the video are wearing orange shirts and pants, similar to orange jumpsuits
worn by detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A
similar outfit, believed to be a jihadist symbol of the prison, was
worn by Nicholas Berg, an American businessman kidnapped in Iraq in 2004 whose execution by an Islamic State precursor organization was recorded on video and posted online.

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