if you are not important you are dead
if it was obamas kid you think he would have paid???
As we learn more about the death of journalist James Foley, from the U.S. Special Forces' attempt to save him to the possible identity of his executioner, more information is being revealed about the context of his death.
ISIL, the radical Sunni group that has conquered large swaths of northern Iraq and Syria, executed him earlier this week, claiming it was in retaliation for the American-led airstrikes that have proven effective in stemming ISIL's offensive. (On Wednesday, President Obama said those airstrikes would continue).
Long before the dark bluster behind ISIL's rationale for killing an American civilian, there had reportedly been a call for a ransom. Philip Balboni, Foley's boss at GlobalPost, told The Wall Street Journal that the captors demanded 100 million euros in exchange for Foley's release. The New York Times reported the figure as $100 million USD, and says the captors also added other demands, including an exchange of prisoners being held by the United States.
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