Islamic State: 10 Things We Know About James Foley's Left-Handed 'British' Killer

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text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="15"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-img" src="http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10367630/518381480_3_72_52.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 52px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 72px;" /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="16"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-img" src="http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10367623/518381136_c_72_52.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 52px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 72px;" /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="17"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-img" src="http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10367623/518381120_c_72_52.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 52px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 72px;" /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="18"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="18"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="18"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="18"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="18"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-container" style="border: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 3px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" video-index="18"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As horror turned to anger at the callous murder of US journalist James Foley, intelligence services are compiling information on his killer, who is believed to be a British jihadi.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="fm-videos-slider-thumb-img" src="http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10367620/518380966_cv1_72_52.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 52px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 72px;" /></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header><div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Early clues from the gruesome footage suggest that the Islamic State (IS) extremist - referred to in the video as 'John' - is from London and is left-handed.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was revealed in the aftermath of Foley's beheading, which was filmed and distributed on social media, that US President Barack Obama sent troops to Syria this summer to rescue a number of Americans being held hostage, including Foley because they believed they had identified the location where the hostages were being held.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the several dozen special operations troops who were dropped by aircraft into Syria did not find them and engaged in a firefight with IS militants before departing. The officials said a number of militants, but no Americans, were killed. One American suffered a minor injury when an aircraft was hit</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">.</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Information is scarce about the identity of the man the Sun newspaper dubbed the "Ali G jihadi". But here's what we do know:</span></div> <ul class="listicle" id="listicle" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none; margin: 0px !important; min-width: 570px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li class="slide_4101681 image slide" id="slide_4101681" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was part of a group of four Brits called 'The Beatles' based in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101681_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A former hostage, who was held for a year in the Syrian town of Raqqa, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/20/isis-militant-islamic-state-james-foley-guards-british" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">has told the Guardian</a> that the killer was the ringleader of a trio of UK-born extremists the captives nicknamed "The Beatles" because of their nationality.</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101682 image slide" id="slide_4101682" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was the ringleader, and in charge of guarding foreign hostages</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101682_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DON EMMERT via Getty Images</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The masked killer who murdered Foley is known as 'John' to the group.</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101714 image slide" id="slide_4101714" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is left-handed</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101714_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Only 10% of the world's population are left-handed. All of the information from the video will be analysed rigorously by intelligence services, including the way he holds his weapon, his height, body movement and intonation. MI5 have a database of Brits they believe have travelled to Syria, and they will be comparing what they know about each one, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11047420/Video-clues-that-could-unmask-James-Foleys-murderer.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Telegraph reported.</a></span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101686 image slide" id="slide_4101686" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is probably from south London but could have family links to Afghanistan</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101686_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MACIEJ NOSKOWSKI via Getty Images</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Claire Hardaker, a linguistics experts at Lancaster University, has told several media outlets that the man's vowels marked him out as likely from the south-east of England, but most likely from London. Elizabeth McClelland, a forensic voice and speech analyst, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11047420/Video-clues-that-could-unmask-James-Foleys-murderer.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told the Telegraph </a>the accent has "possible influences of Farsi, which could suggest a family link to Afghanistan".</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101687 image slide" id="slide_4101687" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was probably chosen for the job because his British accent would be more sinister for Western viewers of the video</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101687_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">TAUSEEF MUSTAFA via Getty Images</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This is significant because it signifies a turn towards threatening the west. They are saying we're going to come after you if you bomb us," Prof Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, at King's College London<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/20/isis-militant-islamic-state-james-foley-guards-british" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told the Guardian.</a></span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101691 image slide" id="slide_4101691" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He emailed the Foley family, furious about the US airstrikes, informing them he would kill their son</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101691_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Foley's family had been emailed by ISIS as early as last Wednesday and were informed that the terror group intended to execute the reporter in retaliation for US air strikes against Isis targets in northern Iraq. GlobalPost chief executive, Philip Balboni said that ISIS "made no demands", just informed the family the execution was going to take place. They tried to engage him in conversation, but to no avail, because the jihadist was fuelled by "seething anger".</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101692 image slide" id="slide_4101692" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He had previously wanted a ransom to spare Foley's life, but the US government did not pay</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101692_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the New York Times who spoke to a family representative and a captive held alognside Foley, ISIS demanded the United States to provide a $100 million ransom ransom for Foley's life, but unlike several other European countries who did pay out, the US refused.</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101695 image slide" id="slide_4101695" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was the main negotiator in the release of 11 IS hostages earlier this year</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101695_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Almost a dozen hostages, some held for over six months, were handed to Turkish officials. They included two Spanish journalists, one pictured here, Javier Espinosa.</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101698 image slide" id="slide_4101698" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The militants foiled an attempted rescue by US Special Ops</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101698_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">US President Barack Obama sent troops to Syria this summer to rescue a number of Americans being held hostage, including Foley, senior administration officials said. Several dozen special operations troops who were dropped by aircraft into Syria did not find them and engaged in a firefight with IS militants before departing.</span></div> </li> <li class="slide_4101700 image slide last" id="slide_4101700" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; list-style: none inside none !important; margin: 68px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="slide-number" style="background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/listicles/number_bg.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto 100%; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -33px !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 553px;"><span class="number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 39px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10</span></span></header><div class="title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The killer treated Foley differently and more harshly that other hostages</span></div> <div class="listicle-content" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 5px 0px 7px !important; min-height: 165px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="image-image" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/363052/slide_363052_4101700_free.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px -6px !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><span class="credits" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; bottom: -23px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></span></div> <div class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">French journalist Nicolas Henin spent seven months in captivity with Foley, including a week where they were handcuffed together, telling the BBC Foley was treated as "some kind of scapegoat" and was beaten more frequently. "Some countries like America but also like the UK do not negotiate and, well, they put their people at risk," he said.</span></div> </li> </ul> </div>

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American Journalist Beheaded by Islamic state Jihadist

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="cleared art-ins news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 50px; padding: 0px;"> <h3 class="wocc" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>'HE WAS AWARE OF THE DANGERS BUT BELIEVED IN WHAT HE WAS DOING': FOLEY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN KIDNAPPED IN SYRIA, FRIEND REVEALS</b></span></span></h3> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 170, 210); margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 4px;"> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Foley knew his job carried risks but 'believed in what he was doing' covering the Syrian conflict, a friend said.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 40-year-old New Englander had been kidnapped before while covering fighting in Libya, but had been eager to get back into action, film-maker Matthew VanDyke told BBC Radio 4's Today.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said seeing news reports of his friend's death was 'a complete nightmare' and urged other reporters in Syria and Iraq to take care, saying 'if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody'.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Van Dyke said: 'He was certainly aware of the dangers, he was very professional... He had been through a rough time in Libya when he was captured and even after that he came home a little bit and then he went right back to Libya to continue reporting on that conflict.'</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Brave: James Wright Foley has previously been kidnapped in Libya but had been keen to remain a conflict journalist as he 'believed in what he was doing'" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="26" height="535" id="i-8bfcefcf0f100305" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/20/article-2729287-20A5DC4D00000578-49_634x535.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+33</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brave: James Wright Foley has previously been kidnapped in Libya but had been keen to remain a conflict journalist as he 'believed in what he was doing'</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Van Dyke said his friend went into Syria knowing that his presence amid the conflict was as dangerous, if not more so, than it had been in Libya.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'[But] he had a love for what he did and he wanted to tell the story of the Syrian people. And nothing was going to stop him from doing that.'</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After being captured in Libya, Foley was held by the government alongside a small group of other journalists, but was released and given a one-year suspended sentence on charges of illegally entering the country.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview about that experience, Foley said he 'would love to go back', but recalled the horror of seeing a colleague killed in a firefight. He also spoke of a love of his profession.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Journalism is journalism,' he said. 'If I had a choice to do Nashua [New Hampshire] zoning meetings or give up journalism, I'll do it. I love writing and reporting.'</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview the BBC in a 2012 interview that he was 'drawn to the drama of the conflict and trying to expose untold stories'.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: 'There's extreme violence, but there's a will to find who these people really are. And I think that's what's really inspiring about it.'</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Journalism is journalism,' Foley said another time. 'If I had a choice to do Nashua (New Hampshire) zoning meetings or give up journalism, I'll do it. I love writing and reporting.'</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His alma-mater, Marquette University said it was 'deeply saddened' by Foley's death. It said he had a heart for social justice and used his talents to tell stories in the hopes they might make a difference.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We extend our heartfelt prayers and wishes for healing to James' family and friends during this very difficult time,' it said in a statement.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned what it called Foley's 'barbaric murder' by the Islamic State, which says his killing was retribution for recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq.<br /></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="artSplitter" style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James Wright Foley, has been missing since November 2012, after being taken hostage at gunpoint by militants from the group Jabhat al Nusra while reporting from Taftanaz, northern Syria</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another American journalist, Austin Tice, is also missing after disappearing somewhere outside Damascus, Syria in August 2012.  It is not known whether he is a hostage of ISIS. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His parents learned of Foley's death as they were preparing a vigil to commemorate the two year anniversary of his kidnapping. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The last 635 days, we have had to share a horrible nightmare, which has made us close to the Foley family and our heart goes out to them. We pray eternal rest for James' soul and comfort and peace for his family,' the Tice family said in a statement.</span></div> <div class="moduleFull" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="item" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="v-3736812214001" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="videoplayer-large" style="height: 358px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 636px;"> <a href="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><div class="videoplayer-title-bg" style="box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 3px 5px; height: 26px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 636px;"> </div> <div class="videoplayer-title" style="left: 6px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 4px;"> Obama vows continued support for Iraqi forces</div> <div class="btnBg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 6px; border-bottom-right-radius: 6px; border-top-left-radius: 6px; border-top-right-radius: 6px; box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 2px 2px 3px; height: 85px; left: 275.5px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 140px; width: 85px;"> </div> <span class="playbtn" style="border-color: transparent transparent transparent rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: dashed dashed dashed solid; border-width: 0.53em 0.53em 0.53em 1em; display: inline-block; height: 0px; left: 289.5px; position: absolute; right: 0.25em; top: 151.5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 0px;"></span><center style="text-align: left;"> <img class="plcHlder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/18/video-undefined-209FC71F00000578-311_636x358.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 358px; margin: 0px; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;" /></center> </a></div> <div class="news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wocc videoplayer-keyline" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; height: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: auto;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="cleared art-ins news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 50px; padding: 0px;"> <h3 class="wocc" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>'FRIENDLY, COURAGEOUS AND IMPATIENT': REMEMBERING JAMES WRIGHT FOLEY </b></span></span></h3> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 170, 210); margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 4px;"> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The friends of photojournalist James Foley are mourning his loss online, following the 40-year-old's execution by ISIS terrorists. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Foley, from Rochester, New Hampshire, was a seasoned reporter who went missing two years ago while covering the Syrian conflict. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'James Foley was a generous colleague & friend. We had beers in Antakya a week before he was taken. We talked about marriage/kids,' Buzzfeed's Middle East correspondent Sheera Frenkel tweeted. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following a video posted online showing Foley's graphic beheading, his former employer GlobalPost issued a statement. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'On behalf of John and Diane Foley, and also GlobalPost, we deeply appreciate all of the messages of sympathy and support that have poured in since the news of Jim's possible execution first broke,' Philip Balboni, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder, said.</span></div> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Remembered: James Foley, reporting from Syria in 2012 before his disappearance" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="29" height="423" id="i-ea17fc60e03242ba" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/20/article-2729287-20A5DC3500000578-787_306x423.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="306" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+33</span></span></div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Remembered: James Foley, reporting from Syria in 2012 before his disappearance</span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mother Diane Foley talked about her son in a January 2013 interview with a local television station and said her son was 'passionate about covering the story in Syria, passionate about the people there.' </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is the oldest of five children. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to a bio on the website Free James Foley, the journalist had traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa on assignment and had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prior to becoming a journalist, Foley helped 'empower disadvantaged individuals as a teacher and mentor, assisting them in improving their lives,' the website says. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He had been previously held captive while covering the uprising in Libya, and was released by Gaddafi's forces after six weeks. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Foley spoke about the 44 days of captivity in a video for the Boston Globe in May 2011. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'You don’t want to be defined as that guy who got captured in 2011,' he said. 'I believe that front-line journalism is important.'</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Journalist Clare Morgana Gillis was also held captive with Foley in Libya, and wrote a 2013 essay in which she said captivity was 'the state most violently opposite [Foley's] nature.' </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She also described him as gentle, friendly, courageous and impatient with 'anything that slows his forward momentum'. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A May article in Vanity Fair about the dangers for journalists in Syria described Foley as 'affable' and devil-may-care'. <br /></span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the time of his disappearance, Foley was working as a freelancer for Agence France-Presse's Global Post, but he previously contributed to Stars and Stripes and other outlets.  </span></div> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730480/PM-Tony-Abbott-warns-Australians-new-threats-Indonesian-terror-group-Jemaah-Islamiyah-calls-James-Foleys-beheading-truly-sickening.html#ixzz3B1kv2nOB" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730480/PM-Tony-Abbott-warns-Australians-new-threats-Indonesian-terror-group-Jemaah-Islamiyah-calls-James-Foleys-beheading-truly-sickening.html#ixzz3B1kv2nOB</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MailOnline on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DailyMail on Facebook</a></span></div>

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TEENAGE TWIN GIRLS FLY TO SYRIA FROM MANCHESTER TO JOIN JIHADIST FIGHTERS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="" class="hero-image" height="349" src="http://mediastorage-lls.bauermedia.co.uk/4a/ce4e6/f2b63/45bfd/13bc3/d6bf8/8c1ff/getty167141067_620x349.jpg?1404717562" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; width: 619px;" width="620" /></span><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -30px 0px 10px -2px; position: relative;"> <span style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(222, 106, 167) 8px 0px 0px 0px, rgb(222, 106, 167) -8px 0px 0px 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-shadow: rgb(222, 106, 167) 8px 0px 0px 0px, rgb(222, 106, 167) -8px 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">                                                                                                                                                    </span>TEENAGE TWIN GIRLS FLY TO SYRIA FROM MANCHESTER TO JOIN JIHADIST FIGHTERS</span></span></h1> <div class="in-brief" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 106, 167); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(222, 106, 167); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: -10px; padding: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal;">THE DEBRIEF:</strong> IT'S BELIEVED THAT THE GIRLS ARE FOLLOWING THEIR BROTHER OUT THERE AND WILL EITHER BE MARRIED OFF TO FIGHTERS OR BE TRAINED TO BECOME SUICIDE BOMBERS…</span></div> </div> <section class="clearfix" id="addthis-top" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="addthis-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px; width: 325px;"> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-weight: 500; margin: 4px 12px 0px 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Share This</span></span></h3> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="addthis_button_facebook" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone_share" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_pinterest_share" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_email" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a></span></div> </div> </section><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two teenage twin sisters from Manchester are being searched for by police who believe them to have fled the country to join their brother in the fight against government forces in Syria.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 16-year-old girls crept out of their home in the middle of the night and flew from Manchester International airport to Istanbul in Turkey. Their parents awoke at 8am to find them missing. The 'extremely religious' pair called relatives to say that they had reached Syria; it is believed that they are there to join ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) a terrorist organisation that has just declared itself a caliphate – <a href="http://www.thedebrief.co.uk/wp-admin/%20http:/www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/islamic-state-leader-muslims-caliphate-video-abu-bakr-baghdadi" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a Muslim state run by a caliph, who is, in this case, terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – in Syria and Iraq</a>. They are believed to be following their brother, who recently left to become a jihadist fighter in Syria. At present, up to 1,500 Britons might have travelled to Syria to fight, one Cardiff resident recently posting a video on social media encouraging other young people to go out there and join him. </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The girls wouldn't be fighting alongside their brother, though, as ISIS are an ultra-conservative group that, a bit like Al-Qaeda, don't believe in equal rights for women. So the police suspect that the girls would likely be used as wives for jihadists. However, they are also considering a possibility that the girls are being trained to be suicide bombers.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A police source <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2682120/Teenage-twin-sisters-Manchester-crept-bedrooms-middle-night-flew-join-Isis-Syria.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told the Daily Mail</a>: 'We’ve seized their computers and not found any videos or statements of intent, but are not ruling anything out.' </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mohammed Shafiq, head of Muslim group the Ramadhan Foundation, said that the girls' parents – who are 'moderate' Muslims – were shocked: 'I've spoken to the mosque where the family worship and others in the community where they live and people are saying they are a decent family. We know they have gone to follow their brother, but they are putting themselves in danger and I'm sure that the moment they arrive in such a savage country they will regret it.'</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable for Greater Manchester police, who also sits on a counter-terrorism committee, warned earlier this week that young women as much as boys would be 'brainwashed' into joining terrorists abroad: 'We’ve got some information about girls trying to get to Syria and some we believe may have gone out there on the idea of being a jihad bride. So there are a number of absolutely perverted messages, which can brainwash impressionable young people, and parents are feeling desperate about this.'</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A spokesperson for the police, who are tracking the girls down said, about this particular case: 'The family are very worried. We don't know exactly where they are but their parents are obviously very keen to have them returned home.'</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

TEENAGE TWIN GIRLS FLY TO SYRIA FROM MANCHESTER TO JOIN JIHADIST FIGHTERS

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