The FBI has beaten him Wednesday to the family of James Foley believes that the video of the extremist group Islamic State (EI) where the beheading of American journalist shown in retaliation for air strikes against the United States is authentic jihadists in Iraq .
The estimate is still preliminary and the agency continues to make a longer "official authentication process," reported the news platform Global Post, he worked for Foley when he disappeared in Syria two years ago.
The family of the journalist, 40, had already by late Tuesday confirmed the death of Foley sent a message to the thousands of people who expressed their sorrow in social platforms created to demand the release of the reporter.
"We have never been more proud of our son Jim. He sacrificed his life trying to expose to the world the suffering of the Syrian people, "he wrote his mother, Diane Foley, in a statement to the online network support Free James Foley (Foley James Freedom) and the Global Post.
"We thank Jim all the joy he gave us. It was an extraordinary son, brother, journalist and person, "added Foley's mother, who asked that his par privacy respected in the coming days.
After Tuesday night ensure that intelligence agencies were working "as quickly as possible" to check the video, the Obama administration has not become officially pronounce on the subject. This despite the fact that American media as ABC's claim that the White House knew that EI had threatened to kill Foley in revenge for the air campaign in support of the efforts of the Iraqi and Kurdish forces to halt the advancing jihad in Iraq.
"If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist," he had said in a statement late Tuesday the spokesman of the National Security Council White House Caitlin Hayden.
Obama was briefed Video aboard Air Force One as he returned from Washington to Martha's Vineyard to complete their summer vacation and will receive regular updates, said his press office confirmed as advance some means, if the president think make a statement on the situation.
The added problem for the American Government is the threat made by extremists in the video of murdering another American journalist kidnapped, Steven Joel Sotloff if Obama does not order limited to air strikes that cleared two weeks ago in Iraq.
Meanwhile, the UK government has admitted Wednesday that the man shown in the video and that is the alleged executor of Foley could be British origin, in view of his accent and the "significant number" of citizens who have joined Islamist fighting in Iraq and Syria. British Prime Minister David Cameron has interrupted his summer holiday on Wednesday and returned to London to discuss the situation in Iraq and Syria after the "shocking and depraved" murder of the reporter.
The EI militant group said Tuesday having executed James Foley, who disappeared in Syria in November 2012, when he worked as a freelancer for various international media. EI distributed a graphic video titled Message to America in the alleged beheading Foley is recorded that before he was assassinated is forced to proclaim criticism of the United States, according to extracts known recording.
According to EI, the murder of the journalist is a response to American air strikes in northern Iraq to support the Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their attempts to stop the advance of the jihadists in the country. The militant group threatens to execute a second journalist missing a year ago, Sotloff, if the United States does not withdraw from Iraq.
Images of the alleged execution of Foley were initially posted on the YouTube channel, but were quickly withdrawn by the company. However, social networks like Twitter video of the alleged parties were distributed, although the company's CEO, Dick Costolo, announced Wednesday that the company "has been and is actively suspending, as they are discovered, related accounts these graphic images. "
The SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks extremist groups and try to check your messages, published a part of the 4 minutes and 40 total seconds of the original video, omitting only the moment of execution.
The video starts with images of President Obama, on August 7, in which the White House announced that it has authorized the airlift of humanitarian aid to the minority Yazidi refugees in Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, as well as limited air strikes to protect American interests in the country
Then the video shows new images of the man identified as Foley kneeling in a desert place, shaved head, his hands tied behind his back and a small microphone hanging an orange dress that seems to mimic the uniforms forced to wear US Guantanamo inmates, according to American media highlighted. Behind him you can see a man dressed in black, hooded and with a gun slung over his shoulder, that's who then proceeds to his beheading with a knife she holds in her left hand.
Before dying, the man who seems to be Foley is forced to read a statement in which his family and especially his brother John, a member of the United States Air Force is headed. "Do not accept any compensation for my meager death of the very people who nailed the final nail in my coffin with the recent air campaign in Iraq," he says.
In English with a British accent, Jihadist after his side takes the word to accuse the American government to lead "aggression against the Islamic state." In a direct threat to the American president, the extremist promises that "any attempt on their part to deny Muslims their right to live in security under the Islamic caliphate will result in bloodshed of his people."
The video concludes with the same man who identifies as holding Sotloff journalist who was in a similar position before Foley. "The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next move," he warns.
In its statement, the mother of Foley also requested to respect life extremists from other journalists still kidnapped.
"We implored the kidnappers to respect the lives of other hostages. Like Jim, they are innocent. They have no control over the policy of the American government and Iraq, Syria or any other part of the world, "said Diane Foley.
According to Committee Protect Journalists (CPJ), which condemned the "savage" murder of Foley, of the more than 80 journalists kidnapped in Syria, about 20 local and foreign, are still missing there. "It is believed that many of them are in the hands of the Islamic State," he said in a statement.
At the time of his disappearance on November 22, 2012, James Foley worked in Syria for Global Post and Agence France Presse, among others. He disappeared in the Syrian province of Idlib and since then neither his family nor the means for working again hear from him.
The release of the video comes a day after Obama confirmed that Iraqi forces and Kurdish peshmerga had recovered with American air support Mosul Dam in Iraq and promised continued support against the advancing EI by supplying weapons and continued limited airstrikes.
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