The freelance photojournalist and US citizen who was abducted by
the terrorists in Syria in November 2012 was killed by the ISIS (the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria, the Al Qaeda offshoot, the most barbaric terror group
so far, now ruling the vast areas of Iraq and Syria) on Tuesday according to a
video posted by the terror outfit on social media sites.
The beheading video is so graphic, so gruesome, that it cannot
be watched. I could not. YouTube took it off immediately.
But the video and the photographs were immediately reloaded with
different IDs. Many were posted in reply to my Tweets on paying tribute to
James Foley with his photographs taken from the website www.freejamesfoley.org and FBI’s missing webpage on the
journalist.
Many journalists have been killed in the global crisis hotbeds. Libya and Syria
are the most recent and the ongoing war zones of Libya
and Syria
that have cost many journalists their lives. But the spirit to tell the truth
cannot be put down by such incidents, a BCC report today from the Mosul dam that was taken by the Kurdish forces from the ISIS yesterday tells us that again.
And there will be many to venture in places like Syria and Iraq
even if the ISIS threatens to do the same to another captured US citizen, the Time journalist
Steven Joel Sotloff, as the James Foley video shows while winding up!
It’s about being in Solidarity with the Humanity – it’s about
the feeling of being there to tell the truth for them who cannot speak – it’s
about the truth, the trust and the care – a role, a responsibility, that sometimes,
even costs sincere and devoted journalists their lives – but the spirit lives –
as echoed by Diane Foley, James Foley’s mother – her words are a moving tribute
to this spirit of standing for Humanity – standing ovation to her – the Humanity
is in solidarity with the family.
RIP James Wright Foley.
But, (the oft-quoted question) why the hell the US and the world are taking so long in uprooting the ISIS? Why the silly considerations every time whenever it comes to act on rogue countries or terror groups, be it Syria or Libya or Bahrain or Yemen or Egypt or Somalia or Nigeria or Central African Republic or many other humanitarian crisis centres, many of which are the making of the policies of the global geopolitics of self-interest?
Yes, but Barack Obama’s statement may well be the beginning of the end of the ISIS, the death-knell of its barbaric existence, the US hunt of Osama bin Laden tells us and the ISIS would not have a terrain like Afghanistan to run away, to hide from the US wrath.
Obama was looking upset while reacting on James Foley killing a few hours ago and his brief statement had clear message on what is going to be of the ISIS now because whosoever controls this group of death mercenaries has directly challenged the American might by making a deep scar on American conscious. And it has been felt globally.
REST IN PEACE JAMES WRIGHT FOLEY