James Wright Foley
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Sep 11, 2026
Peter BergenGUEST
I mean, when you have American journalists, um, and aid workers being, you know, beheaded on camera, Andrew, this is a, a, a...
Peter BergenGUEST
So it was-- Jim Foley was one of the victims of ISIS, and it was Jihadi John, a British, you know, uh-
Andrew NeilHOST
Yes
Peter BergenGUEST
... resident, uh, of course, who orchestrated the murder of J- Jim Foley.
Peter BergenGUEST
So that story, uh, uh, was the most, um, watched or most...
Peter BergenGUEST
It, it was the, the-- there was polling on the question of which stories get most resonance.
Colum McCannGUEST
You know, I feel most New Yorkers do not want him there.
Colum McCannGUEST
And most people do not want the tragedy to be hijacked in any sort of personal way or used for for any sort of faux political gain.
Colum McCannGUEST
It's crass.
Colum McCannGUEST
And this thing was just so extraordinarily heartbreaking.
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Colum McCannGUEST
And at the same time, we're the most disconnected.
Colum McCannGUEST
Why is that? And why are we not asking the question? Why is that? And how can we how can we how can we fix it? I think we can fix it.
Colum McCannGUEST
I personally think that we can fix it through personal storytelling, not didactic stuff, but personal, personal storytelling.
Fran McNultyHOST
Yes, the extraordinary thing about you is you talk about going subsea cables, and people may know, but it was the inspiration for your last book, Twist, which is extraordinary.
Peter BergenGUEST
And, you know, we've certainly seen second generation British Muslims adopt the ideology.
Peter BergenGUEST
You know, I think of Jihadi John who executed, murdered, American journalist, James Foley, uh, at the beginning of the sort of the height of the ISIS who grew up in London.
Peter BergenGUEST
I think he was from Kuwait originally.
Peter BergenGUEST
So yeah, these ideas are out there and they're accessible on the internet and people can radicalize.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In the-- At the end of four now at Wrigley Field, the Cubs four and the Mets one.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[instrumental music][crowd noise] Number five now, and Jim Foley will lead off, and we pause for station identification.
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We go to the fifth inning at Wrigley Field.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Cubs have a 4-1 lead.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Jim Foley will be leading off.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Jim is 0 for 1, retired on a pop fly.
Deborah AmosGUEST
And so the question legally, and I still don't have an answer, so anybody on this call that's a lawyer and can, can c-clarify this, please.
Deborah AmosGUEST
D- would the UN cooperate if they said in the beginning, "We're gonna waive the death penalty for this particular case"? The Americans did it when they extradited some, the ISIS guys who beheaded Jim Foley in the United States, 'cause the Brits said, "No, we won't extradite because we have a protocol that says no death pen-" And so they said, "Okay, we waive it." You know, the worst he can get is, uh, life in prison, although I've always thought for a jihadi, death is what they want, uh, and a life sentence is a bigger punishment than being executed.
Deborah AmosGUEST
But that's just me.
Deborah AmosGUEST
Um, and so I don't know how that works with the UN if some cases don't have it.
Wesley MorganGUEST
You know, I mean, there were there were reporters getting their heads chopped off in 2004 during, you know, Al Qaeda and Iraq's kind of initial big rebellion.
Wesley MorganGUEST
But 2014 is really the year, you know, when James Foley is beheaded in Syria, when a lot of newsrooms start really cracking down on risk and saying, OK, well, we're not actually going to kind of sponsor freelancers on the battlefield anymore because that's.
Wesley MorganGUEST
crazy because then when they die, it's on us.
Wesley MorganGUEST
And so, you know, I think that has definitely changed, you know, the face of things.
Wesley MorganGUEST
You know, I mean, there were there were reporters getting their heads chopped off in 2004 during, you know, Al Qaeda and Iraq's kind of initial big rebellion.
Wesley MorganGUEST
But 2014 is really the year, you know, when James Foley is beheaded in Syria, when a lot of newsrooms start really cracking down on risk and saying, OK, well, we're not actually going to kind of sponsor freelancers on the battlefield anymore because that's.
Wesley MorganGUEST
crazy because then when they die, it's on us.
Wesley MorganGUEST
And so, you know, I think that has definitely changed, you know, the face of things.
CharlieHOST
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CharlieHOST
fully details the institutional failures that led to her son's capture and that she's still fighting to change today.
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Benjamin HallGUEST
And then, of course, don't forget they went and started killing journalists.
Benjamin HallGUEST
You had Jim Foley, you had Stephen Sotloff, you had Peter Kasich.
Benjamin HallGUEST
All these names who were not only captured and killed, but they were done so in brutal fashion, on their knees in the desert in orange jumpsuits.
Barack ObamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Jim Foley's life stands in stark contrast to his killers.
Barack ObamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let's be clear about ISIL.
Barack ObamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence.
Benjamin HallCORRESPONDENT
And then, of course, don't forget they went and started killing journalists.
Benjamin HallCORRESPONDENT
You had Jim Foley, you had Stephen Sotloff, you had Peter Kasich.
Benjamin HallCORRESPONDENT
All these names who were not only captured and killed, but they were done so in brutal fashion on their knees in the desert in orange jumpsuits.
Barack ObamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Jim Foley's life stands in stark contrast to his killers.
Barack ObamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let's be clear about ISIL.
Barack ObamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence.
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