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AS THE US mourned an American journalist beheaded by Islamic militants, the nation found something of a reprieve with the release of another freelance reporter who had been held hostage for nearly two years by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria.
Peter Theo Curtis, who wrote under the byline Theo Padnos, was freed Sunday, offering consolation to U.S. officials, a journalism community and family members deeply unnerved by the grisly video of James Foley’s beheading in a desolate desert landscape.
Curtis’ release appeared to have been aided by the oil-rich nation of Qatar, which said Sunday that it had “exerted relentless efforts” to win the American’s freedom. Qatar is a leading supporter of the Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad and has been involved in mediating past hostage releases.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Curtis had been held by Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, an al-Qaida-linked militant group fighting Assad’s government.
Curtis was not believed to be among the hostages held by the Islamic State group that killed Foley. Islamic State was formally disavowed by al-Qaida earlier this year after being deemed too brutal.
A senior administration official said Curtis was released in the Golan Heights, where he was met by U.S. government personnel who were transporting him to Tel Aviv. The official was not authorized to speak by name and discussed the release on the condition of anonymity.
Betsy Sullivan, a cousin of Curtis, said intermediaries involved in negotiations threatened the family and made ransom demands of varying amounts. But the family said that ultimately they were assured by Qatari representatives than no money was paid for Curtis’ release.
His family said they believe Curtis was captured in October 2012, shortly after crossing into Syria.
Before being met by American officials, Curtis was handed over to UN forces in the Golan Heights, where Irish Defence Forces are currently stationed. However, a spokesperson for the Defence Forces said there was no Irish involvement in the operation.
Associated Press. Additional reporting, Daragh Brophy.
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At last, some good news from that neck of the woods.
Odd phrase
Is that not Rick Grimes in the photo?
It looks like James Foley sister and Sandy Hook (Adam’s) school mate Israel are the exact same crisis actor.
… with a little touch of the wardrobe department. .
Ablitive
it’s been proved in the past that
Crisis actors are being used. I had my doubts at first but the evidence say it’s happening. So who knows regarding this.
I am not sure if you saw this in an earlier post… its hilarious..
a picture falls off the wall in a studio set during a live interview with Foley fake brother and sister’s …
… watch their movements
Glen, you are a foolish individual.
No way
Not even a flinch from either of them …
Frank, and you believe this nonsense?
Declan
Did you watch the link ?
Even a hard a$$ sheep like you has to admit that’s ODD …. Watch declan won’t reply to this !!
I see Declan is here with the usual sheeple nonsense of setting out to try insult people.
Add something to the discussion don’t just brand people with names simply for the fact they chose to find the truth beyond what is being reported.
They’re completely different people. Different eye shape. Different chin. Different nose. Why can’t all of you conspiracy nuts seek professional help?
Declan Noonan .. the official stories.. LOL.
There’s more credibility in Bugs Bunny than there is in the story of James Foley..
Johnny Five..
More here… apparently the voice also matches..
So let’s see, brother & sister mourning the public execution of their brother agree to give live interview during which a picture falls from the wall in what was probably a busy place prior to the 5 seconds we see them on camera annnnnd straight away it’s fake because they don’t blink? Seriously? I mean think about their state of mind? They had just gone live & were listening to the interviewer lining up the first question and possibly feeling a little numb over their loss
If James Foley’s sister is actually an address wouldn’t there be no record of him having an existing sister before ? Your theory doesn’t even make sense.
*actress
The fact that Frank didn’t reply to neither of your comments sums the man up. What a Delusion person.
Humour me, I watched the video of James Foley’s alleged beheading, and was immediately shocked at how calm he was, at how little blood there was on his jumpsuit after they ‘paused’ it and how the guy they were threatening to kill in the final part of the clip looked like he was watching a video of paint drying, his mate had just had his head cut off with a knife and he was all ‘whatever man, can we go back to the house now?’.
So what happens next 1) the guy in the video from ISIL has a British accent, straight away the British Home Secretary announces new Anti-Terror Laws and the Met Police threaten anyone sharing the video with terrorism offences http://www.ibtimes.com/new-anti-terrorism-law-tackle-extremism-uk-home-secretary-pledges-1667148
2) All of a sudden sites have taken down the video, even the likes of LiveLeak who never shirked from posting anything online have removed all Foley videos, have those who staged the video realised how sh*t it was and are now scurrying backwards to have it pulled from the internet in case more people realise what a botch job it is?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/video-of-james-foley-beheading-may-have-been-staged-20140825-1082n4.html
The consensus from experts is that it was a staged video, but Foley was actually beheaded, who knows? Was Foley a CIA agent? Let’s see.
Where are all of you conspiracy theorists coming from? Was this page linked on InfoWars or something? Jim Corr, is that you?
Johnny. piss off
Is he really released or is it going to turn out it was all fake
You’ll have the conspiracy theorists on in a minute telling you it was filmed in downtown Hollywood
Frank sez so.
Where are all the conspiracy theorists coming from all of a sudden? The place is flooded with you in just the last 2 weeks, please please please let it all be diff variations of the same person …I’d hate to think there is more than 1 of you
Why Ryan is it getting hard to peddle your western propaganda?
Business…………If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck …..
Ryan
People are starting to wake up to the truth in record numbers. The internet has been a massive help. Before that it was books and word of mouth. I can assure you we are all different people striving for the same goal the truth to be known and the chains of tyranny and deception to be finally broken for all people on this planet.
There’s loads of us around Ryan, in fact we should start doing our own end the fed rallies in Dublin soon.
Or maybe people are just waking up to what’s going on.
But it’s ok we will always have Ryan and Co to shout
EVERYTHING IS OK KEEP GOING ABOUT YOUR DAILY BUSINESS WHILE WE TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK.
The truth is hard to accept but eventually when it all comes out and people stand up and wake up the world may slowly turn into a better place.
Clown
Ryan Carroll …It is more of a case of people waking up to the truth and figuring out the dirty lies and b sh*t propaganda that has been thrown up at us from the mainstream media.
ISIS is nothing more than a television main stream media drama image revamp of Al Queda, and the Muslim Brotherhood, but still run by all the same group of war mongering criminals most notably Israel, Saudi Arabia and the USA.
No one ever heard of ISIS three months ago, now they are the single most deadliest, largest, weaponized, best dressed and well funded terrorist organization the world has ever seen.
So why did we need a new and improved enemy? Because the Zi0nist controlled US Government knows damn well the American People were sick and tired of war and hearing about Al Queda, when most objective and informed people already knew it was all a CIA creation and we were fully in bed with them in Libya, Tunisia, and Syria…
Bin Laden is dead, and the US Government needed a new and even more EVIL face bogyman for Global Terrorism
So here comes ISIS, storming the planet like the propaganda barbarians they are paid to be, but how do they get a war weary public in the USA to back another adventure in the Middle East?
9/11, 7/7, Madrid Spain ring any bells?
The bogyman is heading straight for America and Europe so it is time start preparing to submit your personal freedoms to more dirty mainstream media lies.
# Pay particular attention to those up and coming dates and of course the numbers.
Ryan do you actually question why Mi5 are saying watching this video is an act of terrorism? Do you accept this as the norm? Just take a minute and think about that and you’ll realise just how insane that sounds, and then maybe you’ll find the courage to watch it, and if you do you’ll see there is no blood spilled which is a little bit unusual for a beheading video.
Not a drop of blood and that knife went across his neck 7 times at least.
I fully understand that people are scared to take that plunge into the unknown. But take my word for it when the blinders come off and your conditioning bargains to fail you’ll be so determined for the truth to come out that FEAR becomes nothing but a four letter word.
This is also an admission of an up and coming NUCLEAR false flag… and MH370 gets a mention.
US Lieutenant General declares DEFCON 1 Nuclear threat imminent ..
There is a real sense of something on the horizon. No doubt more innocent blood will be spilled and the answer will be war and reduction of freedom.
It’s being reported in the Telegraph.
“Conspiracy theory”, point 4 in the propaganda model by Chomsky. Classic flak.
Dog Standard .. what happened here is the likes of Jim Stone tore the official “execution” to pieces. It got viral and they gave in and came up with a different story..
The fact that the UK Authorities even threatened terrorist charges on those that downloaded the video raised suspicion that this was a total BS story.. The very same thing occurred at Sandy hook.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OX21e9SkII
I simply asked why so many conspiracy theorists are coming on to the site all of a sudden.
I’m not a paid shill for anyone, in your paranoid delusions you may imagine that if you wish, but like the rest of your beliefs, it bears no resemblance to reality
Ryan no rants against the fact more people are waking up?
I’m not into conspiracy theory’s but I think something mad is gonna happen soon with all the shit that’s going on
That’s nice and vague, by more people waking up you mean more people subscribing to bat1hit conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality and not a shred of evidence backing them up.
Alex Jones has been claiming the masses are about to wake up for a long time now, conspriacy theorists always use this trick to make it look like they have mainstream support, Jones does it all the time by slipping in ”getting this fron NEW YORK TIMES…CNN” but of course he’s taking one snippet out of context like from 911 they’ll say firefighters confirmed sounds of controlled demolition NEW YORK TIMES CNN!! but what was in really? It was fire fighters in the lobby hearing the floors collapsing into each other from the upper levels radioing that there may be bombs inside the buildings on top of the planes, as many thought at the time because they didn’t understand the engineering of how the towers could come down so quickly.
It’s all horse1ht, I’m capable of seeing the difference between the cookie cutter view of the world the mainstream press presents and the way things actually are, but that does not have to mean I subscribe to nonsense conspiracy theories
There are plenty of real Islamic militants out there, believe me, there is little need for western security agencies to fake their attacks they are all too willing to carry them out on their own
Alex jones is an egotistical moron whose job it is to condition the people to accept the NWO. I say this because I have seen video of him provocaturing peaceful protests. I credit him to a point he does have valid points.
Ryan
You asked a question and I done my best to answer it. You can believe what you want that’s your choice but their are people who insult and demonise truthers for their believes and that’s bang out of order. To me even the label ” conspiracy theorist ” is an insult. We are not the ones conspiring … They are.
I dear God…Glen you really have to be far off the edge to think Jones is NWO.
Jones often starts with something rational, like being worried that an executive order for continuity of government in an emergency has no provisions for congress or the courts and could be abused…then he’ll move on to suggest that of course this is part of the general plan to reduce the population of the earth down to about 1b people so the Rockerfellars and the Rothchilds can rule us all as slaves…..and he’s lost ye…
I don’t insult them I insult their beliefs, there is a difference, because their beleifs are based on original research, ,with unqualified eyes, and no amount of evidence or explanation from engineers , scientists etc can get them to change their mind.
911 as an inside job would not even require the use of a cruize missile, I mean if you’re planning an inside job you can just use a plane the way you did at the towers why the hell would you use a missile, but they jump to that nonsense beleif anyway based on the factt….the really stupid fact that there is not a cartoonish airplane sized hole cut perfectly into the pentagons reenforced concrete, bast proof facade….ffsake like
Rational thought should go like this:
1. Observation
2. Hypothesis
3. Examination
4. Conclusion
Conspricay theory mindset works like this:
1. Conclusion (crazy highly unlikely conclusion)
2. Examination, where only evidence that seems to support your original conclusion is retained, the rest ignored or written off
3. Conclusion reenforced.
Ryan obviously 911 is the only thing you have seem to research and by research I mean believe what you are supposed to believe.
Your attempts at sly insults are going beyond real at this stage. You constantly try to insult everyone and anyone who disagrees with you even the slightest.
You use Alex Jones alot too obviously picking up that he is a bit of a dope and has been name dropped a number of times. This obviously meaning that the only person you may have a problem with himself.
As I said yesterday and befote, you view your friends as men, I view them as trained killers for hire. It’s a simple fact and something you cannot accept to believe as you consider them friends, similar to how you have become so accustomed to accepting what you are told to by the media with your insults and the likes.
You seem to have a “logical” rant on alotta subjects so I assume you have gone through a hard life. Apart from that the word elitist doesn’t actually begin to describe you as I thought earlier.
Thats just your TRUTH, not necessarily THE truth
What a strange man you are
You’re flogging a dead horse now, this fake business has been done to death, give it a rest
You really are a picnic short of a sandwich
Stranger and stranger as the days go by
We are surrounded by folk in their tinfoil hats, really makes you chuckle reading such drivel.
7 comments Stephen saying the same thing. You made your point in the first one, no need for the repeats. No need for any of them in fairness, they were just insults anyway.
A lot of drivel and bull* here
Guess the states must have paid the ransom this time
Doubt that.
More likely a favour in-kind.
The U.S. doesn’t pay ransoms any more. The families or employers have to raise them.
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