That would be the the Boston-based online news service GlobalPost and its freelancers:
"The Global Post, based in Boston, was able to send freelancer Foley to costly assignments in Libya and Syria. A subscription-based news website, which once only had 400 subscribers, is not only able to send someone like Foley off to cover wars but is able to maintain an international correspondents’ staff of 65 in high-cost cities ranging from Moscow and Jerusalem to Tokyo and Nairobi. Some uncomfortable questions must be asked. For example, from where does Global Post actually receive its funding? And, why does it find it advantageous to embed its freelancers with U.S. military units and CIA-financed Islamist insurgent groups?
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Related: Global Post founders’ history of unexplained funding
"Now let us foray into yet one more cheap stunt from the dungmeisters at the top
No... really? Really? Yeah, well, I don't know one way or the other but
anytime something like this happens and anytime the Zio-press trumpets
some event that sparks all sorts of potential action, I have to assume
they fabricated it....
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"Knowing the past history of western governments, media and Hollywood
propaganda ploys to demonize Muslims and Islam, I had doubts about the
recent beheading of American journalist James Foley 40 was also a
photo-studio trick to fool the public. My suspicion became more and more
solid as I read the FBI, CNN, BBC, FoxNews, International Business
Times, Global Post, New Yorker, National Israel Times, and the rest of
Jewish propaganda empire tried to prove that the video showing the
beheading of James Foley was genuine.
Political aware people have come to the conclusion that the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’ is a US-Israel creation to demonize Islam are
least surprised to see that the person beheaded in the video was not
even lookalike of James Foley who covered war in Libya and Syria. Read
more here and here.
James Foley went missing in 2012 while covering US-Israel funded insurgency in Syria for the pro-Israel news website Global Post. The Jewish media blamed Syrian military for his abduction without any proof.
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Look who else being recalled:
"Militants free US writer with Mass. ties who was held in Syria; Man’s captivity, at the hands of a group linked to Al Qaeda, was kept from public" by Bryan Bender and Dan Adams | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent August 24, 2014
WASHINGTON — Peter Theo Curtis, a writer and scholar with ties to the Boston area who was held captive for nearly two years by one of the Islamic militant groups operating in Syria, was released Sunday after emissaries from the government of Qatar won his freedom on humanitarian grounds, in a stark contrast to the brutal murder of fellow war correspondent James W. Foley .
Curtis’s 22 months in captivity were kept from the public at his family’s request since he was nabbed near the Syrian border in October 2012 by Al Nusra Front, one of the groups seeking to topple President Bashir Assad of Syria. Al Nusra Front has ties to the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
Curtis, 45, who wrote dispatches under the name Theo Padnos and previously chronicled disaffected young Muslims in Yemen in a book titled “Undercover Muslim,” had studied Arabic in Syria.
He was handed over to United Nations peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday evening, a UN spokesman in New York said.
Related: Al Qaeda affiliate seizes crossing point with Golan Heights
Was a stand-off until they escaped.
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Foley’s captors, the anti-Western Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, had demanded a $130 million ransom for his release. The US government refused to pay, citing longstanding policy not to negotiate with terrorists, and it proved to be a sum that neither Foley’s family nor the Boston-based GlobalPost news service he was writing for could raise in time.
Senior US officials in Washington described some of the diplomatic maneuvering that eventually won the release of Curtis.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry raised Curtis’s plight with “a large number of countries” that have relationships with some of the myriad groups who have been seeking the ouster of Assad in Syria since 2011, including Al Nusra,” according to a senior Obama administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
But the government that ultimately proved most crucial, they said, was Qatar, the small Persian Gulf emirate allied with the United States that has also supported some of the anti-Assad groups in Syria.
Kerry, in a statement, also credited the Curtis family for never giving up on him.
“Theo’s mother, whom we’ve known from Massachusetts and with whom we’ve worked during this horrific period, simply refused to give up and has worked indefatigably to keep hope alive that this day could be a reality,” said Kerry.
Curtis is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and earned a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts.
Kirk Kardashian, a former journalist who lives in Woodstock, Vt., and who met Curtis in 2003, said he saw him just before he left for the Middle East in October 2012. Kardashian said he was “elated and somewhat in shock” to hear that Curtis had been released.
Kardashian, who is now a senior writer at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, said he and other friends had warned him of the danger he faced. He later learned from Curtis’s parents that his friend had been taken hostage.
“Theo is an intrepid soul — he had fear, but he was brave,” Kardashian said. “He understood the risks of going over there.”
He may have understood his captors better than virtually any Westerner.
In researching his book “Undercover Muslim,” which was published in Great Britain, Curtis went as far as pretending to convert to Islam while in Yemen, where he studied under the tutelage of followers of Al Qaeda.
(Blog editor just shaking his head. This guy IS a CIA agent!)
Usually barefoot and wearing a flowing robe, according to a 2010 report of his experience by GlobalPost, Curtis tried to befriend one young American convert in particular.
“Taciturn, withdrawn, maybe depressed,” is how Curtis described Carlos Bledsoe.
“He didn’t like me very much. He was an ‘are you with me or are you against me’ kind of guy. And he felt I was against him.”
After his encounter with Curtis, in June 2009, Bledsoe drove by a military recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., and opened fire, killing one soldier and wounding another. By then, Bledsoe had changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad.
So Curtis was his case officer and handler, huh?
“I wanted to know about the Quran,” Curtis said in explaining his extraordinary efforts to understand militant Islam in the 2010 interview. “I wanted to know about spiritual experience in Islam. I wanted to travel across the nation. I wanted to do all the things that the converts wanted to do. I just did not believe in the God and the prophet and all that stuff.”
Curtis’s family said Sunday that he changed his name from Peter Theophilus Eaton Padnos after publishing “Undercover Muslim” so he could travel without attracting the attention of authorities in Arab countries. The family statement added that he first became interested in disaffected youth when he was a teacher in the Vermont prison system, an experience chronicled in his first book, “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun.
It was unclear Sunday whether Curtis’s deep insight into radical Islam, along with his Arabic fluency, helped persuade his captors to let him go.
Al Nusra Front, also known as Jabhat al-Nusra, is a branch of Al Qaeda operating in Syria and Lebanon, was designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department in January 2012.
The New York Times reported that Curtis had been held alongside American photojournalist Matthew Schrier, who was able to escape July 2013 by standing on Curtis’s back and squeezing through an opening in the walls of their cell.
That the best you could come up with?
It was also not immediately clear exactly when Curtis would return to the United States, but National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice said in a statement that he would be reunited with his family “shortly.”
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Another pro-rebel "reporter."
Also see:
Peter Theo Curtis grateful to those who won his release
Mother of released Syrian hostage reached out to James Foley’s mother
Turns out all the relatives have been revealed as crisis actors.
And if at first you don't succeed, fraud and fake another film!!!
"Steven Sotloff, 31, an American freelance journalist held hostage and threatened with death by Islamic militants was threatened with death by Islamic State militants on a video released last week unless the United States stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq. Before Sotloff was shown on the Islamic State video, only a few friends and family knew he had been taken hostage."
Pffffft!
Video purportedly shows beheading of Steven Sotloff
I haven't even seen it and I already know its a fake just like Foley's. This is getting absurd.
Maybe this will help answer some of the questions.
Lastly, I'm tired of something I loved being given a bad name!
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Militants execute 2d US hostage; Obama likely to face new pressure to strike Islamic State in Syria" by By Mark Landler and Eric Schmitt | New York Times
So the piece of shit video that doesn't show anything is nothing but a piece of theater to advance the agenda.
This is getting f***ing old!
Steven Sotloff risked life to document a terrible war
Steven Joel Sotloff’s zest for journalism began at N.H. boarding school
Whatever.
US says Sotloff video is authentic
That confirms it's a fake.
