United States yesterday confirmed the authenticity of the video in which radical Islamists behead an American journalist kidnapped in Syria. President Barack Obama described the group responsible for the murder of journalist James Foley, the Islamic State (EI) as a cancer that threatens the entire Middle East. Meanwhile, administrUnited States yesterday confirmed the authenticity of the video in which radical Islamists behead an American journalist kidnapped in Syria. President Barack Obama described the group responsible for the murder of journalist James Foley, the Islamic State (EI) as a cancer that threatens the entire Middle East. Meanwhile, administration officials said is under evaluation sending more American troops to Iraq. "We will be vigilant and be relentless," Obama, who vowed to continue their attacks in Iraq despite threats thereof jihadists murdering another American hostage said.
After making a call for a global response to progress from a group controlled territories both in Iraq and in Syria, the Democratic president condemned the murder of Foley, whose death, as he said, left the United States "heartbroken" and should "stir the conscience "of the world. "(The EI) does not speak for any religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim and no creed teaches people to massacre innocent. No God just defend what they did yesterday and what they do every day, "said the president, who suspended his vacation at the news.
Obama's words made it clear that America will not reverse its decision this month to drop bombs in Iraq against EI in response to the murder of Foley. Since the video beheading of journalist spread, the American armed forces conducted a dozen air strikes against positions of EI in Iraq, military officials reported yesterday. Officials who asked not to be identified said the Obama administration is considering sending a small number of additional troops to Iraq, especially to provide more security to Baghdad, CNN reported.
Obama said he telephoned the family of Foley and confided that America values and honor everything that made the reporter, praising his courage for telling the world about the crisis in Syria, where he was kidnapped by the EI in November 2012 "The Life of James Foley stark contrast to that of his murderers," said the president in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where he is vacationing with his family.
Foley, 40, a native of Rochester, New Hampshire, disappeared in Syria while working as a freelancer for the French news agency AFP and the GlobalPost, half of Boston. "Today, the American people will pray a prayer for all those who loved him. We all feel the pain of his absence. His loss saddens us all, "Obama lamented.
Parents of slain journalist, Diane and John Foley, spoke to reporters outside his home in Rochester, calling her son "martyr" of freedom. "Jim is free. We know it's in God's hands. It's in the sky. We are so proud of him. We miss his courage, his love, his determination, his laugh and his smile, "Father Foley said.
It is the first time the EI kills an American citizen since the conflict began in Syria in March 2011, up, defiantly, bet on an increasingly chaotic and extended conflict.
The group is heir to another called Al Qaida in Iraq and beheaded many of his victims, including an American businessman Nicholas Berg, in 2004 The video, released Tuesday on websites used by Islamists-and that has a quality picture and sound far superior to anything published so far by the EI- begins with scenes of Obama explaining the decision this month to launch air strikes in Iraq to curb an alarming advance of radical group.
Then the image shown Foley, kneeling on the sand with a desert background and wearing a robe orange red. Following the words of the hostage, a hooded and dressed all in black executioner to behead starts slaughtering with a knife.
The video becomes black before the decapitation and the next image is complete and shows Foley died. In his speech, Obama did not mention Steven Sotloff, another American journalist kidnapped the EI threatens to kill before the end of the video. However, the president offered his prayers for "those other Americans who are separated from their families." A man identified as Sotloff at the end of the video of Foley with a similar orange suit. Sotloff was abducted near the Turkish-Syrian border in August 2013, when he worked as a freelancer for Time magazine and the National Interest and media MediaLine.
In Washington, military sources said attacks by American aircraft in Iraq yesterday focused on EI positions near Mosul Dam, with the aim of helping the Kurdish and Iraqi forces, which retook the facility last month to create a ring of security around the dam. Since 8 August, the United States dropped almost 90 bombings in that country, although it is unclear how many militants were killed.ation officials said is under evaluation sending more American troops to Iraq. "We will be vigilant and be relentless," Obama, who vowed to continue their attacks in Iraq despite threats thereof jihadists murdering another American hostage said.
After making a call for a global response to progress from a group controlled territories both in Iraq and in Syria, the Democratic president condemned the murder of Foley, whose death, as he said, left the United States "heartbroken" and should "stir the conscience "of the world. "(The EI) does not speak for any religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim and no creed teaches people to massacre innocent. No God just defend what they did yesterday and what they do every day, "said the president, who suspended his vacation at the news.
Obama's words made it clear that America will not reverse its decision this month to drop bombs in Iraq against EI in response to the murder of Foley. Since the video beheading of journalist spread, the American armed forces conducted a dozen air strikes against positions of EI in Iraq, military officials reported yesterday. Officials who asked not to be identified said the Obama administration is considering sending a small number of additional troops to Iraq, especially to provide more security to Baghdad, CNN reported.
Obama said he telephoned the family of Foley and confided that America values and honor everything that made the reporter, praising his courage for telling the world about the crisis in Syria, where he was kidnapped by the EI in November 2012 "The Life of James Foley stark contrast to that of his murderers," said the president in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where he is vacationing with his family.
Foley, 40, a native of Rochester, New Hampshire, disappeared in Syria while working as a freelancer for the French news agency AFP and the GlobalPost, half of Boston. "Today, the American people will pray a prayer for all those who loved him. We all feel the pain of his absence. His loss saddens us all, "Obama lamented.
Parents of slain journalist, Diane and John Foley, spoke to reporters outside his home in Rochester, calling her son "martyr" of freedom. "Jim is free. We know it's in God's hands. It's in the sky. We are so proud of him. We miss his courage, his love, his determination, his laugh and his smile, "Father Foley said.
It is the first time the EI kills an American citizen since the conflict began in Syria in March 2011, up, defiantly, bet on an increasingly chaotic and extended conflict.
The group is heir to another called Al Qaida in Iraq and beheaded many of his victims, including an American businessman Nicholas Berg, in 2004 The video, released Tuesday on websites used by Islamists-and that has a quality picture and sound far superior to anything published so far by the EI- begins with scenes of Obama explaining the decision this month to launch air strikes in Iraq to curb an alarming advance of radical group.
Then the image shown Foley, kneeling on the sand with a desert background and wearing a robe orange red. Following the words of the hostage, a hooded and dressed all in black executioner to behead starts slaughtering with a knife.
The video becomes black before the decapitation and the next image is complete and shows Foley died. In his speech, Obama did not mention Steven Sotloff, another American journalist kidnapped the EI threatens to kill before the end of the video. However, the president offered his prayers for "those other Americans who are separated from their families." A man identified as Sotloff at the end of the video of Foley with a similar orange suit. Sotloff was abducted near the Turkish-Syrian border in August 2013, when he worked as a freelancer for Time magazine and the National Interest and media MediaLine.
In Washington, military sources said attacks by American aircraft in Iraq yesterday focused on EI positions near Mosul Dam, with the aim of helping the Kurdish and Iraqi forces, which retook the facility last month to create a ring of security around the dam. Since 8 August, the United States dropped almost 90 bombings in that country, although it is unclear how many militants were killed.
0 comments:
Post a Comment