Report: Obama Delayed James Foley Rescue a Month, Fretting over His Image and Golfing
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By Dan Riehl.
According to a new Sunday Times report by Toby Harden, “Pentagon sources said Foley and the others might well have been rescued but Obama, concerned about the ramifications of US troops being killed or captured in Syria, took too long to authorise the mission.”
It’s claimed that Obama was concerned about his administration being Carterized had the mission failed.
For President Barack Obama the decision to send in the Night Stalkers was an agonising one. The audacious bin Laden raid in Pakistan had been a success but also preying on his mind was the failed 1980 Delta Force operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran…
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Obama’s golf outing after Foley beheading was a huge mistake
By Michael Goodwin.
Sometimes a round of golf is just a round of golf. And sometimes it reveals the essence of a man.
President Obama’s decision to hit the links and yuk it up with pals immediately after speaking about the beheading of James Foley was no ordinary mistake. Nor was it a simple gaffe.
The decision continues to cause an uproar because, like an X-ray, there is no escaping the image. It shows there is no there there.
With even his media praetorian guard appalled, the golf outing is sparking a wider understanding that Obama is hollow, empty of the routine qualities Americans expect from their president.
Simple decency and respect for Foley’s horrified parents should have been enough to sober him. If that didn’t do it, the realization that the Islamic State had declared war on America in the most gruesome fashion imaginable should have sounded a call of duty in his head.
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London hip-hop artist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary key suspect in hunt for killer of American journalist James Foley
By News.com.au
THE beheading of American journalist, James Foley, at the hands of ISIS militants shocked the world but forensic experts have revealed the video was probably staged, with the murder happening off camera.
The UK Times reported that an international forensic science company, which has worked for police forces across Britain, said there is no question Foley was beheaded but that camera trickery and post-production techniques look to have been used.
“I think it has been staged,” said one expert in visual forensics, after he was commissioned by The UK Times to examine the footage.
“My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped.”
Aymenn al-Tamimi, a fellow at the Middle East Forum think-tank, said over the years ISIS militants have improved the production quality of their videos.
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Family releases final letter sent from beheaded journalist James Foley
By Fox News.
The parents of James Foley, the journalist whose brutal beheading by Islamic State militants shocked the world last week, have released a letter they say was written by their son in captivity.
The letter was posted late Sunday on the “Free James Foley” Facebook page hours after the conclusion of a memorial Mass in Foley’s hometown of Rochester, N.H. A note appended to the posted letter says that Foley’s missives were confiscated by his captors with Islamic State, the militant group formerly known as ISIS. The note explains that Foley asked another hostage to memorize one of Foley’s letters and relate it to his family after he was released. Foley’s parents say that the hostage called Foley’s mother, Diane, shortly after his release and dictated her son’s letter.
Foley was abducted in northern Syria in November 2012, while covering that country’s civil war. On Tuesday, ISIS released a video showing Foley’s beheading by a militant with a British accent. Intelligence officials in the U.S. and U.K. have scrambled to identify the militant seen in the video.
The letter begins with Foley reminiscing about past times with his family. “I remember so many great family times that take me away from this prison,” he writes. “Dreams of family and friends take me away and happiness fills my heart.
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