François Hollande said Thursday “outraged” by the murder of American journalist James Foley, abducted in Syria in late 2012 by the jihadists of the Islamic state, saying that internet broadcasting images of scripts “sign . “
” barbaric crime I share this emotion, I share this compassion, I also share this revolt, “said the Head of State on his arrival in Reunion, linking
Killing, murdering a journalist in conditions where it happened, a journalist who had been held for the past two years, put on the Internet video of the murder, it signs the barbarity of the crime. “
“This reporter, we knew, not directly but by the evidence that had been reported by our own hostages” in Iraq, said the head of state, saying the French authorities and were “aware that it was in great danger. “
There is a rule that in all civilized societies who wants the press must be preserved,” he said President Holland.
The French president has called “the world” to take “group consciousness that is now Iraq and Syria,” referring to the Islamic state.
“This is not just a terrorist group as unfortunately we had dispersed, scattered, with several heads, it is a terrorist organization that has decided to enslave, to annihilate, to destroy, “he has said.
Foley could have been released
President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged him to eradicate the world “cancer” of the Islamic state.
In a brief speech, Barack Obama paid tribute to James Foley and called “the governments and peoples of the Middle East” to work together to fight against the Islamic state to “extract this cancer so that it does not spread.”
In the evening, the Pentagon and the American presidency have also released a transaction “earlier this summer” for help “a number of Americans held hostage in Syria” by the ultra-radical jihadi group without specifying their number or identity.
The operation failed “because the hostages were not present” in the spotted by American intelligence instead. This is the first time that the United States make public an operation of this type on Syrian soil since the conflict began in March 2011.
According to the “Washington Post”, James Foley was among the hostages affected by this transaction in which were engaged several dozen soldiers.
The Foley family prevented the execution
The jihadists have warned the family of the American journalist James Foley, after the early American strikes in Iraq, that he would be killed, was also reported Wednesday one of his employers.
Philip Balboni, Director General of Information “GlobalPost” site, for which James Foley worked in Libya and Syria, where he was kidnapped in 2012, reported that his captors were in contact with his family and himself in the weeks leading up to his execution by the jihadists.
“We have been in contact with the kidnappers and they seemed, at one time, be receptive to a deal that would have led to his release,” said Philip Balboni on the television channel MSNBC.
But the kidnappers then “cut off communication with us and the family.” After the start of the American air strikes in Iraq on August 8 – the first since the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2011 – the Islamic state has threatened the Foley family to kill their son
“. We have not made it public, but there was a message after the strikes began, which was sent to the family saying that James would be executed, “said he reported.
” We hoped and prayed that this is not the case, and we did everything we could to re-establish communication with them and tell them that Jim was just an innocent journalist who loved the Syrian people, which included the Islam and only wanted to tell the story of the Syrian people. “
The executioner Foley probably British
It appears” increasingly likely “that the executioner an English accent appeared in the video of the Islamic State is a Briton, conceded Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron. The United States also came to the same conclusion.
“We have not yet identified the individual responsible for this act, but as far as we can tell, it seems more and more likely whether it’s a British citizen, “said the head of the British government in the aftermath of one of the many crisis meetings he chaired in the day, after interrupting his family holiday in Cornwall.
The State Department confirmed: “From what we saw, it seemed increasingly likely that they are a British citizen”
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“It is deeply disturbing,” he told David Cameron condemning the “barbaric and brutal act.” Scotland Yard had previously announced that its “anti-terrorist unit studying closely the video” the execution of James Foley.
The daily “The Guardian” based on the testimony of a former hostage, For its part, speculated that the executioner could be the leader of a unit of “British fighters” who detained several Western hostages in Syria. He would call and John is originally from London.
The newspaper, also spoke to two experts in linguistics. The first, Paul Kerswill, University of York, said the executioner would be expressed “in English multicultural” feature of the East-end London. “He probably has a foreign background,” said he added. Claire Hardaker, of Lancaster University, said it comes from the southwest of England and “most probably in London, Kent and Essex.”
According to government figures 400 to 500 Britons have traveled to Iraq and Syria for two years.
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