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Foley first kidnapped by Obama-funded “moderate” Free Syrian Army group

Aug 20, 2014 10:05 pm By Robert Spencer

FoleyThen he was turned over to the Islamic State as a token of this Free Syrian Army group’s allegiance to the new caliphate. The Free Syrian Army are the “moderates” to whom the Obama Administration has given weapons in Syria. Thus the incoherence of the Obama foreign policy is laid bare: he is funding what he considers to be heroic freedom fighters in Syria who, when they cross over into Iraq, become bloodthirsty terrorists.

“James Foley Allegedly Used As Token Of Allegiance By Group That Joined ISIS,” by Erin Banco, International Business Times, August 20, 2014:

According to Syrian sources who have worked previously to locate and rescue kidnapped journalists in Syria, American journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by Islamic State in a video the militant group made public on Tuesday, was most likely used by another guerrilla group as a token of allegiance to ISIS.

According to those sources, Foley was in the hands of the Dawood Bridgade, a group that was originally aligned with relatively moderate opposition groups such as the Free Syrian Army, but recently pledged allegiance to ISIS.

The International Business Times reported last month that activists on the ground near Al Bab, Syria, said that the Dawood Brigade, which now consists of about 1,000 people, defected from the Free Syrian Army and moved on to Raqqa to join ISIS. The group arrived in Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold, in a convoy of more than 100 vehicles.

The Dawood Brigade, which used to be called Jaysh al-Mujahedin (Mujahedin Army), but changed its name in late 2012, was originally under the direction of Abu Mohammed al-Shami al-Absi. The group was rumored to have been responsible for the kidnapping of John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans, who went missing in Syria in 2012, according to the Syrian sources. The two journalists were rescued by another rebel faction, and escaped.

After their release from captivity, the two journalists described their captors, saying that many of them had British accents — like the man who was seen in the ISIS video killing Foley.

Cantlie, a freelance photographer, apparently went back into Syria with Foley in the fall of 2012.

The Dawood Brigade joined in an alliance with the Suqour al-Sham (Falcons of the Levant) in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of the northwestern province of Idlib. As the war progressed, Suqour al-Sham and Dawood expanded their influence to areas such as Damascus and Aleppo. The group also got a new leader, Hassan Abboud.

No details about Foley’s captors have yet been released by the State Department, the White House or Global Post.

In the past two years, rumors have circulated about the whereabouts of several kidnapped American journalists in Syria and how exactly they went missing. For the parents of those missing, releasing information about their children has not always been an easy decision. Like with many investigations, releasing too much information could make matters worse. In the case of James Foley, his family and Global Post decided to keep whatever information they might have possessed about his captors secret to protect him.

“Although GlobalPost’s investigation at one point led us to believe that James was being held by the Syrian government, we later were given strong reason to believe he was being held by Islamic militants in Syria,” Philip Balboni, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder, said Tuesday. “We withheld this information at the request of the family and on the advice of authorities cooperating in the effort to protect Jim. GlobalPost, working with a private security company, has amassed an enormous amount of information that has not been made public.”

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  1. snootybaronet says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    An Obama militia unit that was vouched for by McCain.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 12:27 am

      McCain said that we should relax because (Allahu akbar) merely means “Thank God”

      Apparently the Free Syrian Army must have caught a dose of caliphate fever or (Allahu Akbar) has a different connotation to Muslims.

  2. Myxlplik says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 12:15 am

    This is like one of those bad jokes which seems will never end, and when you think it can’t get any more stupid, it does, and therefore becomes funny.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 12:21 am

    Islamic hospitality once again gives way to Islam’s filthy reality.

    Free Syrian Army = ISIL = ISIS = IS equals ….. ISLAM

  4. Isis says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:35 am

    Terrible. Evil. And it’s happening in my name.

  5. SallyA says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:38 am

    How stupid does Obama think Americans are? In late June he asked Congress for $500 million to train “appropriated vetted” Syrians who are Muslims. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/middleeast/obama-seeks-500-million-to-train-and-equip-syrian-opposition.html?_r=0. Never saw followup about Congressional response to his brazen attempt to train his Muslim friends (the enemies of non-Muslim-Americans). Brazen because there can be no “appropriately vetted” Muslim opponents to ISIS in that part of the world. Obama and this administration lies through its teeth claiming its intel is bad. CIA’s Brennan and Obama are bad for non-Muslim-Americans, not the intel they know all too well.

  6. tpellow says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 4:01 am

    Austria:- ‘asylum seekers’ = Islamic jihadists.

    “Syria conflict: Austria police hold nine jihadist suspects”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28871771?

  7. duh_swami says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 4:53 am

    One thing I notice about victims like Foley is how calm and compliant they are. Kneeling quietly, putting up no fight at all…
    Drugs maybe?

    • Jax Tolmen says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 5:18 am

      It could be a matter that you are merely looking into the eyes of men who have accepted their fate. I think many of us, in a similar position, would attempt to leave this life with some small measure of dignity intact – if not for ourselves, at least for the sake of our loved ones who we’d leave behind.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if drugs were involved – however, I doubt it strongly. It would be beneficial to the Jihadis aims if these men were screaming and crying in their final moments on Earth. It would greatly enhance the shock value – which is exactly what these people want. They want to shock us and scare us so we won’t fight back.

      • duh_swami says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 6:50 am

        Dignity to me is trying to kick the executioners azz until I’m dead…That’s probably because I ain’t all that dignified.

        • smokes says

          Aug 22, 2014 at 3:03 am

          It may have been the 20th time they rehearsed the murder over a few days. Ghastly animals.

      • Asturiano says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 8:45 am

        They didn’t really show his death, just his beheaded body. I guess that would be too disgusting, even for them. Or maybe they just wanted to make the video as concise as possible.

      • Edward says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 9:59 am

        Faith sustained James Foley’s imminent fate! For he had faced similar dangerous situations in 2011, where he first trusted his faith. God’s love was engraved in Foley’s heart. He was a man of great fortitude…..I pray that my affirmed faith strength will be as his. Fear was not his! I’m sure he knew that his Creator is waiting for his spirit; with open arms when he reaches God’s Heavenly domain. RIP James!

        http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/20/james-foley-beheading-2011-letter-shows-how-journalist-faith-gave-him-strength/

        • Edward says

          Aug 21, 2014 at 5:53 pm

          Here’s additional bio on the late freelance Journalist: James Foley

          ‘Slain Journalist James Foley on the Power of Prayer During Captivity’

          http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/James-Foley-slain-journalist-ISIS/2014/08/21/id/590109/?

  8. TB says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 5:39 am

    BHO gave $25 million to the” opposition fighters” aka ISIS to depose Assad, Carrey and Lindsey Graham met with them and took pictures. The MSM and even Fox news don’t address this .Benghazi was an outpost to dupply arms to these terrorists via Turkey.Thos is a well known secret the MSM does not address.

  9. TB says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 5:47 am

    BHO gave $25 million to the” opposition fighters” aka ISIS to depose Assad. Carrey and Lindsey Graham met with them and took pictures. The MSM and even Fox news don’t address this .Benghazi was an outpost to supply arms to these terrorists via Turkey.This is a well known secret the MSM does not address.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 8:10 am

      Maybe if Obama threatened to supply Assad with barrel bombs painted with the acronym ISIS they would reconsider releasing the value of holding hostages.

  10. Adrian Rainbow says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 5:49 am

    I have ignored your perpetual slander of Obama until now, because I value the other information you bring. But claiming Obama is somehow responsible for Foley’s abduction is a low and puerile jab. I have first hand contact with the Syrian atheist and secularist group that originally started the uprising in Syria and they were A. NEVER funded by any fucking one and particularly any western body and B. wrer not responsible for Foley’s abduction, that was Al-Nusra you fucking pathological liars!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 7:54 pm

      Americans and others in the West have been naïvely trying to parse between “good rebels” and “bad rebels” in Syria ever since the Jihad began there.

      Certainly, this is not all Obama’s fault—nor is it McCain’s, who has also urged funding and arming Syrian rebels.

      But the fact is that the West has many times backed and funded “moderate” Muslims, who turn out not to be so moderate after all, from the Pakistani government to the Muslim Brotherhood.

      If you have failed to notice this, then I’m afraid you have not been paying attention.

  11. ApolloSpeaks says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 8:27 am

    OBAMA SAID “THERE’S NO PLACE FOR ISIS IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

    Oh really, Mr. President? Then what about Hamas? What about the Moslem Brotherhood? What about the Iranian mullahs, Hezbollah and the Taliban? Do they belong in the 21st Century? Yes? No? You won’t answer. Okay then tell us this: What century does ISIS belong in if not this one? Don’t know? Can’t answer? Stumped? Then permit me to help you with more than a hint: it belongs to the 7th Century when an evil, cruel, bloodthirsty, power-mad barbarian named Mohammed seemingly rose out of nowhere blazing a path of terror, death, destruction and conquest across a terrified Arabia-slaughtering, beheading, torturing, mass murdering Christians, Jews, pagans and every other unbeliever that got in his way and wouldn’t bend to his will.

    In ISIS commander Al Baghdadi millions of ethralled believers worldwide see in his ruthlessness and quick, astonishing military feats the long awaited and prayed for resurrection of the prophet Mohammed-the glory of the 7th Century now among us spreading horror and mayhem like the prophet and wanting to destroy the modern world with a 7th Century caliphate centered in Baghdad. And that makes Baghdadi far more menacing and dangerous than ten Osama bin Ladens.

    Back to Iraq!

    Back to the battlefield!

    If Baghdadi wants war let’s give it to him!

  12. BC says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 9:04 am

    The title of this article is misleading. He wasn’t kidnapped by the Free Syrian Army group; he was kidnapped by an Islamist group that had previously allied itself with the Free Syrian Army. That’s a meaningful distinction.

  13. Sarah L Nield says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 9:25 am

    Just incase any British Jews are worried about another Shoah upcoming from British citizens I would like them to have a peruse of this;

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/21/david-cameron-government-gaza-arms-embargo-israel#start-of-comments

    The Guardian (once the Manchester Guardian) is the most popular left wing anti-Israel anti-Semitic daily paper that covers all topical issues (unlike the Socialist Worker paper that is a specialist paper) but if you read the comments the anti-Semite supporters of the dhimmi are not getting away with parroting the usual ‘Israel murder children’ nonsense.
    There are quite a few challenging the party line. If the readers of a newspaper like the Guardian noted for anti-Semitic opinions are challenging the opinions, Jews don’t have to worry about officially sanctioned pogroms.
    Most of us Brits are still decent and fair minded and stand up to bullies.
    But I would be quick. Within the last hour, the mods have woke up and are taking down any pro-Israel/fair dos comment.

    One more thing; to any British allies of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, if you are thinking of challenging the Stop The War Coalition’s anti-Semitism, use a pen and paper and stamp or the phone because someone at their end is seeding reply e-mails with viruses to infect PCS.
    (Sarcasm-It’s only a prank from some childish person in the office obviously. Surely they don’t want to kill off figuratively as well as literally the voices of those who are fed up of Islam nonsense!-Sarcasm)
    I have asked them about it and they have denied it, claimed it must have been something I picked up from looking at on-line.
    But it is e-mails from them and only them in response to my challenging their stance that contain the danger.
    Luckily, I am used to this nonsense from the imperialist reactionaries dhimmi supporters and every e-mail I get from any of any of them gets automatically dusted by an anti-virus checker and then further correspondence is sent to the junk/spam folder and deleted untouched. They have to get up early to get one over on me!

    • paddy says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 9:46 am

      Jeez Sarah….get over it…find some new , compatible friends….life is way too short.

  14. JW UK says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 9:37 am

    My condolences to a mother and father who raised a fine, brave man who simply sought to try and report the truth.

    I say to my American brothers now…this boy is not British…he is a pakistani muslim or muslim pakistani….this boy’s parents have heard his voice and know who he is.

    To our ALL American cousins (including Obama), freedom….

  15. AmySoldier says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 9:45 am

    When the first in a series of future dirty bombs go off in New York and London, Saudi Arabia and Iran will have done their homework to insure Western Intel “knows” the leaders of ISIS are the “bastards.” Troops will invade ISIS. Bombings. But Saudi Arabia and Iran will not be touched, … or so they like to think as they today make their plans for the destruction of the West.

    People today need to be informed of the intentions of the educated, wealthy, devout Muslim leaders of nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, etc. With the masses at least with an understanding what the thinking is behind the assaults that will occur to ISIS and their religious co-conspirators within the other nations of Islam.

    ISIS was planned for and created during a past conference of leaders of Islamist nations. ISIS will be their buffer to the backlash from the West after the dirty bombs cripple several major Western cities.

    The people need to be informed of the objective of a Muslim as spelled out in the Qur’an, and what the Qur’an requires of the leaders of Islamist nations with resources. Why ISIS was created as a means to further the objective. And why Western nations didn’t wait for the crippling Muslim strike before simultaneously attacking the top five, ten Islamist nations.

    Islamists want war. The West …?

  16. paddy says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 10:26 am

    The boy who cut off Mr James Foley’s head is not British. I repeat, he is not British. He is pakastani muslim/muslim pakastani cunt.

    He has decided (and i totally blame his MOTHER) to go for gay muslim cock..

  17. Delta Mike says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Unless a reporter is willing to convert, grow his beard, take Jihadi combat training, be willing to rape his sister and slit her throat for “violating the family honor” and behead his parents for being “kuffar”, he needs to understand that no matter how supportive you are, you are still a non-believer liable to Q9:5 and Q4:47.

  18. Louise from Canada says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    SallyA @ Aug. 21, 3.38 am
    ” How stupid does Obama think Americans are?”
    Stupid enough to reelect him.

  19. Edward says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 11:19 am

    Shame to the those that had aided and abetted to a wrongly thought out cause that eventually has steam rolled the source of extensive, but unforeseen troubles or problems; opening Pandora’s Box!

    By wrongly allocating financial aid and military hardware has empowered these prejudiced and warped mindset religious nemeses. Their corrupted self-esteems has caused widespread murders, mass genocides to the non-believers of their maligned religious mindsets.

    This is the list of the enemy proxy’s that have blood on their hands:

    1. President Barack Obama and his administration
    2. Some members of the Democratic/Liberal Party and indirectly their silent constituents.
    3. Some members of the foggy minded Republicans.
    4. Sleeper cells (traitors) that are awaiting activation.
    5. The main stream media

  20. Edward says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    ‘Obama Stands Alone: Even the media are baffled by his deepening isolation’
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/22/obama-stands-alone-even-media-are-baffled-by-his-deepening-isolation/

    The POTUS’ recent photos shows his changing demeanor…….he exhibits a hint of depression.

    Its all his fault……he has been doing his THING too often. Being in control is his nature!

    Gosh, that’s what they warned us about in hi-school Health Ed!

  21. gravenimage says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    Foley first kidnapped by Obama-funded “moderate” Free Syrian Army group
    ………………………………

    I’m horrified—but not terribly surprised. After all, we knew that James Foley was kidnapped two years ago, when the “Islamic State” was just a gleam in Al-Bagdadi’s eye.

    There have been plenty of tools—both otherwise decent naïfs and those with darker agendas—who have tried to push the idea that there are rebels who just want to replace Assad’s oppressive Syria with a Jeffersonian democracy—but it is quite predictable that what we have gotten instead is a sanguinary new “Caliphate” instead.

    At least a small aspect of this was—suicidally—brought to us courtesy of American and other Western taxpayer money, both in backing Jihadists directly and in leaving them lots of American weaponry left behind by the Iraqi army.

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