Islamic State Beheads American, Threatens Second American
Originally posted on The Counter Jihad Report:
IPT, by John Rossomando:
Islamic State terrorists made good Tuesday on threats to kill Americans if President Obama launched airstrikes against terrorist strongholds in Iraq.
Jihadists released a video of an American identified as James Wright Foley, 40, being beheaded while wearing an orange prison-style jumpsuit similar to those worn by detainees as Guantanamo Bay. An “organized gang” had kidnapped Foley –freelance photojournalist from Rochester, N.H. while working for Agence France Presse – from an Internet café in Binesh, Syria on Nov. 22, 2012.
A masked jihadist wearing all black is shown in the graphic video cutting off Foley’s head. The video quickly was taken down.
A Twitter post showing an image of the beheading blames President Obama: “Looke (sic) Obama. You Killed this man.”
The video opened with Obama announcing airstrikes against the Islamic State and cuts to a title “A Message to America. ” Foley is…
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