Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Baghdad

UREGENT: ISIL beheaded American journalist after Washington did not pay ransom

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(IraqiNews.com) The American newspaper, The New York Times, revealed that the organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant demanded a financial ransom of several million dollars in return for the release of the American journalist James Foley, who was beheaded recently in front of the camera lens, but the United States refused to pay the ransom to save the life of its kidnapped citizen.

The United States has acknowledged that its own forces tried to perform an operation to free ISIL hostages before the decapitation of the journalist Foley, but the process failed.

The New York Times quoted former hostages who were being held with Foley, in addition to sources in his family, that the fighters of ISIL wanted a ransom of several million dollars for his release; Foley was not beheaded as a result of the American raids on the sites of ISIL in Iraq, as alleged by the butcher who slaughtered the journalist by the knife.

The sources say that Washington has refused to pay money to the organization for the liberation of its hostages, at a time when European countries paid funds for ISIL to release its citizens who were held as hostage by the organization.

Now, ISIL is threatening to kill the second American hostage, the journalist Stephen Sutlov, who works for the American magazine, Time. He was detained with Foley in the same place.

Journalist Stephen Sutlov of Time Magazine.
Journalist Stephen Sutlov of Time Magazine.

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