Islamic State takes brutality towards hostages to extreme - Reporters Without Borders
Video apparently shows Islamic State beheading US journalist James Foley
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by yesterday’s release of a video that purportedly shows kidnapped US journalist James Foley being beheaded by the Jihadi armed group known as Islamic State or ISIS.
A masked man dressed in black is seen in the video
cutting the throat of a man wearing the same kind of orange jumpsuit as
detainees in Guantánamo. The man in black said Foley was being executed
in revenge for the recent US air strikes on Islamic State positions in
Iraq.
The White House said the US intelligence agencies were
trying to verify the video’s authenticity as quickly as possible. In the
same video, Islamic State threatens to execute US journalist Steven Sotloff, who was abducted in Syria in August 2013, if President Obama does not end the US air strikes in Iraq.
