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Obama knew of Islamic State threat to murder journalist, resumed vacation

Aug 20, 2014 12:03 pm By Robert Spencer

Barack ObamaAnd now the White House is “appalled.” It’s just jihad, after all. How appalling! Anyone up for a round of golf? “White House Knew of Recent ISIS Threat to Kill US Journalist,” by Arlette Saenz, ABC News, August 20, 2014:

ISIS had recently threatened to kill U.S. journalist James Foley to avenge airstrikes the United States has conducted in Iraq, a senior U.S. official told ABC News.

The White House had been aware of the threat prior to the release of a video Tuesday night that appears to show the beheading of Foley and warns that militants will carry out a similar act against U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, who went missing in August, the official said.

President Obama was briefed on the video aboard Air Force One Tuesday night as he returned to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, from Washington to resume his August vacation. The White House said the intelligence community is working to authenticate the gruesome video that allegedly shows Foley’s beheading.

“If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends,” Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said.

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  1. mariam rove says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 12:08 pm

    is “appalled.
    Obama is appaling…m

    • Alice says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 12:36 pm

      Son of the snake.

    • RaymondofCanada says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 2:27 pm

      No mention of retribution, eh? Just another day of jihad.

  2. Beagle says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    How could this video have been faked? IS Dreamworks?

    Why is is even slightly hard to believe a genocidal state which has videotaped countless beheadings would do so again, only this time an American?

    Are those in power and the Left, but I repeat myself, in such deep denial that they have to construct a new conspiracy like 9/11 ‘truth’ to process reality?

  3. William says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    Why didn’t he release five more Mohammedans from Guantanamo, as he did for the U.S. Army traitor? He is not being consistent.

    • gb4731a@gmail.com says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 7:04 pm

      I have been thinking the same thing all day! Sickening.

    • Oliver says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 1:08 pm

      Probably because Mr. Foley was NOT a deserter or traitor. Therefore, not worthy of anything.

  4. richard sherman says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Is he appalled that the sociopath Muhammad personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jews?..
    No he reveres the sociopath…
    Case closed!

  5. Beagle says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    I just watched Foley’s parents interviewed. Either they are heavily sedated or something is very wrong with them, or both. How can any parent having just watched their son beheaded not show any anger to those who did it? I must be some kind of antediluvian throwback to a, it turns out oddly, better time.

    Their performance was a classic example of kindness to the cruel. Moreover, begging for the other reporter’s life won’t do any good. Haven’t we learned the usual human compassion buttons just weren’t wired into the Mujahideen of the IS? They had a chance to call for massive retaliation, the only sensible course, and a couple times they giggled while seeming far too calm.

    Just befuddled watching them speak. I have to conclude that on the whole our society has become too ‘nice’ (read: weak) to defeat a sufficiently evil enemy. And don’t think the IS doesn’t know it. When, ever, has the family of a victim of jihadis become a passionate spokesperson for destroying them?

    • Islamisdeath says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      Apparently he was the offspring of some serious braindead lefty’s.

  6. Mark Jones says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    The guy said he was going to “fundamentally transform America”.

    This included, imo, ruining America’s standing as a world-power.

    He’s doing what he said he’d do, and well!

    • Islamisdeath says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 3:24 pm

      Agreed. I read recently he said he was changing the world but just not fast enough. Foley getting his head whacked is just part of the cost of change to this evil servant of satan we have in the White House.

  7. Steve says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    As Will Rogers used to say “I only know what I read in the newspapers” but…the website Bare Naked Islam reports that Foley was sympathetic to the rebels against Assad’s regime. Not that I think Assad is a very nice guy but at least Christians were not leaving the country in droves. So perhaps Mr. Foley will be rewarded with 72 virgins or he can munch on 72 dark-eyed white raisins with big bosoms.

  8. Beagle says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    The hits just keep on coming. Now Obama is doing the daw’ah dance about the true peaceful Islam everyone can safely convert to presumably. Nope, the Islamic State knows nothing about Islam, even when they quote the Quran, ahadith, and revered Islamic history.

    Gah!
    /headdesk
    /headdesk
    /headdesk

  9. mawskrat says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    an old one…Open Season

  10. mawskrat says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    Stuck Mojo…… NSFW

    • Beagle says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 2:16 pm

      I bought two autographed CDs of Southern Born Killers. One for sharing.

      https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=stuck+mojo+open+season+video&ei=UTF-8&hspart=att&hsimp=yhs-att_001&type=sbc_dsl

  11. Anon says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    Bumper sticker:

    Obama Knew.

    Bumper sticker:

    Worst President Ever.

    Appalled, appalled I tell you! Now, what’s for dinner.

  12. Max Publius says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    Obama has more chances then Mexico’s Santa Ana, allowed to lead repeatedly over 30 some years, losing and stealing more each time. Today, Santa Ana is considered the worst of all persons in Mexican history, which is saying a lot!

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