James Foley’s Boss Says Kidnappers Had Sent Threatening Emails to Foley’s Family
Published at(BOSTON) — The President and Founder of GlobalPost, the news organization for whom James Foley worked when he was abducted in 2012, said in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday that the Foley family had received a threatening email from Foley’s kidnappers prior to his death.
The email, Philip Balboni said, was, “full of rage against the United States for the bombing.” GlobalPost had, “been working on this case for almost two years,” he said, noting that there were investigators in both the Middle East and Europe investigating Foley’s whereabouts.
Balboni added that GlobalPost and the Foley family had received previous emails from the kidnappers, the first of which was in November 2013. “They weren’t very frequent communicators,” Balboni said, stating that the perpetrators ,”established decisively for us that they were holding Jim Foley.” That, Balboni said, “was a milestone moment…and they stopped communication until very recently.”
Balboni added that GlobalPost was “devastated by his loss,” but that Foley’s, “courage and commitment to tell the important stories of war and human tragedy will stand forever as a shining example to all reporters and we hope to all people who believe in a free press.”
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