'We were threatened of prosecution if we raised a ransom': Mother of executed ...

Washington: Mother of James Foley expressed deep disappointment towards the Obama administration for their handling of the American journalist's time as a prisoner of the terror group. She said that she was 'embarrassed and appalled as an American' at the efforts to rescue her son from captivity.

It came on a day when Obama offered a strategy to defeat ISIS while addressing the nation on the 13th anniversary of 9/11.

According to a report in Daily Mail, 'Articulate and thoughtful throughout her interview, Foley made the startling claim that US officials threatened her family with prosecution if they tried to raise a ransom for Foley, 40, and said 'Jim was sacrificed because of a lack of communication and prioritization.' And in a thinly veiled attack on Obama's new strategy to 'degrade and destroy' ISIS she said that meeting violence with more violence may not be the answer and said, 'bombing caused Jim's death.' 'Jim was killed in the most horrific way. He was sacrificed because of just a lack of coordination, lack of communication, lack of prioritization,' said Diane Foley. 'As a family, we had to find our way through this on our own.' Still grieving, Diane Foley also said US officials told her they would not exchange prisoners or carry out any military action to try and rescue her son.'

The report said, 'At times withering in her assessment of the Obama administration's co-ordination with her family, Foley poured scorn on the Pentagon's claim they tried to rescue Foley on July 4, only to raid the wrong base. Speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Foley said her family knew where James Foley was being held on two separate occasions in Syria, and that each time he was there for months following his capture on Thanksgiving, 2012. She bemoaned the fact that a military option took so long to put together and felt the whole disastrous operation, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel surprisingly labeled 'Flawless', was in fact 'awful'. In a damning indictment of the effort at home and abroad to rescue Foley, who was kidnapped in northern Syria while working for GlobalPost, Foley said that the FBI were asking her family for information on her eldest son.'

According to Daily Mail, 'Throughout the 20 month ordeal, Foley said she came to regard her and her family's efforts to rescue James as 'an annoyance' to the administration and began to feel that their desperation to bring James Foley home did not 'seem to be in the strategic interest, if you will.' On August 19, ISIS released a gruesome video online which showed the beheading of Foley by a masked ISIS militant, who told the camera in a British accent, that his 'real killer' was the United States. Exactly two weeks later, another American journalist, Stephen Sotloff, was beheaded, apparently by the same man, who tells the camera, 'I'm back Obama'. During the efforts to get James home, Mrs. Foley said she met good people, people who wanted to help, but was adamant that she didn't want to single anyone out and lay 'blame'. Foley said it was important to remember that ISIS is the enemy and not the United States.'

(Image: ISIS fighter beheading James Foley, Mother of James Foley/YouTube grab)



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