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   The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) claims to have   
   beheaded an American photojournalist and has threatened the life   
   of another American journalist if President Obama doesn't stop   
   airstrikes in Iraq.   
      
   A graphic video obtained by NBC News purportedly shows James   
   Wright Foley, a freelance reporter for the U.S.-based news   
   service GlobalPost who was kidnapped while reporting from Syria   
   two years ago, reciting threats against America before he is   
   executed by an ISIS militant.   
      
   Foley was kidnapped at gunpoint near the town of Taftanaz in   
   northern Syria on Thanksgiving Day in 2012. He had not been   
   heard from during his time in captivity. "We’ve heard nothing.   
   Nothing. We last knew that he was abducted on Thanksgiving Day   
   in the Idlib province, but we don’t know who took him or why,"   
   Foley's father, John, said on TODAY last year.   
      
   Foley traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa.   
   He reported about conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya,   
   where he was once held captive for 44 days.   
      
   In May 2011, Foley recorded a video interview with The Boston   
   Globe about his arrest and captivity in Libya. “You don’t want   
   to be defined as that guy who got captured in 2011,” he said. “I   
   believe that front-line journalism is important.”   
      
   In the video, ISIS claims they are holding a second journalist,   
   Steven Joel Soltoff. A man on the video is identified as Soltoff   
   and his life is threatened if the United States does not pull   
   out of Iraq.   
      
   GlobalPost has a partnership with NBC News.   
      
   — Daniel Arkin   
      
   http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/james-wright-foley-kidnapped-   
   journalist-apparently-executed-isis-n184376   
      
         
      
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