The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recently identified the ISIS masked executioner in the gruesome beheading videos of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff as well as of British hostage David Haines. As stated by the ABC News, FBI Chief James Comey declined to name the militant or provide any further details on the identity of the killer.
The horrible decapitation videos that caused James Foley's death and two others have helped express public mawkishness against the terrorist group ISIL and ISIS that recently led the Obama's administration to launch aerial assaults in Iraq and Syria against the insurgents.
The FBI executives believed that the similar militant speaks in all three videos though they did not publicly identify the executioner. The release of the video claiming to display James Foley's death in August was the first in the string of high-production threatening messages directed at Western rulers. In every video, a masked slayer with an ostensible British accent instigated the decapitation process before issuing a warning to kill another Westerner if airstrikes against ISIS continued. ISIS has threatened to kill British aid worker Alan Henning next.
James Foley was a freelance journalist. He disappeared in northwest Syria, near the border with Turkey on November 22, 2012. At the time of his disappearance, he was working for the US-based online news outlet GlobalPost. On August 19, the video of James Foley's death was posted on YouTube. On the same month, a funeral mass was arranged in his honor and memory, among the hundreds who attended were New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and US Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte.
After James Foley's death, ISIS posted Steven Sotloff's video on September 2. He was seized near the Syria-Turkey border in August 2013, when he was working for Time magazine. The most recent video featuring David Haines was released on September 13. The 44-year-old aid worker was abducted in March 2013.
Because of the consecutive releases of the barbaric decapitation videos that led to James Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines' deaths, the US instigated airstrikes in Syria against ISIS and other terrorists group. Five Arab allies supported the US, whereas France is assaulting the Islamic State group in Iraq due to Iraqi government's appeal. In August, the Obama government hurled comparable strikes in Iraq against ISIS.
After the decapitation videos were made public, President Barack Obama promised to go after ISIS militants wherever they may be in his September 10 speech. Obama said, "In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. In acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists - Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff."
Now, the US nation, along with its allies has been continuing their operation to destroy the vicious ISIS insurgents. US-led coalition airstrikes have struck various terrorist-controlled territories in the hope that their brutality will finally cease; no other victims will follow David Haines, Steven Sotloff and James Foley's deaths.
