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TONIGHT, A TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS
EXCLUSIVE ----- AN
AMERICAN HOSTAGE.
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH THE MOTHER OF A
REPORTER --- SLAIN
OVERSEAS.
JOURNALIST JIM FOLEY
WAS KIDNAPPED IN SYRIA
IN 2012...
AND MURDERED TWO
YEARS LATER ----
IN A GRAPHIC VIDEO THAT
WAS POSTED ONLINE.
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THE SHOCKING EVENT
FOREVER CHANGED HOW
THE UNITED STATES
HANDLES HOSTAGE
SITUATIONS OVERSEAS.
AND THRUST THE
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION ISIS INTO
THE AMERICAN PSYCHE.
TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
TIM WHITE SAT DOWN
EXCLUSIVELY WITH JIM
FOLEY'S MOTHER AND IS
HERE NOW WITH THE
DETAILS.
FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE,
THE FOLEY FAMILY WAS IN
PROVIDENCE EARLIER THIS
MONTH FOR THE PROVIDENCE
COLLEGE / MARQUETTE
UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL
GAME.
JIM FOLEY WENT TO
MARQUETTE AND WAS BEING
HONORED PRIOR TO TIPOFF.
WE SAT DOWN WITH JIM'S MOM
DIANE BEFORE THE CEREMONY
AT THE DUNKIN DONUTS
CENTER.
FEWER JOBS IN NEWS ARE
MORE DANGEROUS THAN
BEING A CONFLICT JOURNALIST.
JIM FOLEY - A FREELANCE
REPORTER AND
VIDEOGRAPHER - WAS ON THE
FRONTLINES IN IRAQ
AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA AND
SYRIA...
(0112) "There does seem to be a
strong sense that they won't
give up
the fight."
FILING REPORTS FROM
REGIONS THAT WERE GETTING
LITTLE ATTENTION FROM
AMERICAN NEWS OUTLETS.
(0200) "so today a lot of
children?"
"Yes. Everday children."
Diane Foley
Jim Foley's Mother
(0405) and he really felt there
was a
story that westerners needed to
hear.
IN 2011 FOLEY WAS HELD
DETAINED FOR 44 DAYS BY THE
REGIME IN LIBYA,
AND HELD CAPTIVE FOR 44
DAYS BEFORE BEING FREED.
MONTHS LATER, HE TOLD HIS
FAMILY HE WAS GOING BACK.
THIS TIME, TO SYRIA.
Diane Foley
Jim Foley's Mother
White: (0620) Even you if you
wanted to, do you think you
could
talk him out of it?
Diane: I tried,
White: You did?
Diane: oh Tim, yes. Are you
kidding.
Yes. Jim has two masters degrees
there was so much he could have
done and he knew it. But he
became passionate about it.
IN NOVEMBER 2012, JIM WAS
KIDNAPPED IN SYRIA.
THEN TWO YEARS LATER...
MURDERED.
THE BEHEADING WAS USED IN
AN ISIS PROPAGANDA VIDEO...
ROCKING THE UNITED STATES.
Diane Foley
Jim Foley's Mother
(0832) No one knew who had
captured them, no one knew who
they were with at all. So then
their
subsequent deaths spurred on a
lot
of changes.
IN THE WAKE OF FOLEY'S CASE,
PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNED A
DIRECTIVE IN 2015 THAT
OPENED THE LINES OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.
AND ORDERED THEM TO
STRATEGIZE HOW TO BRING
AMERICANS HOME.
Diane Foley
Jim Foley's Mother
White: (0941) Do you think that
is
his legacy?
Diane: I'm hopeful that's a part
of it.
The other part of it is, I feel
that as a
public... I didn't really calue
enough
what the media and journalists
do
for our country for our
democracy, I
just took it for granted. (1004)
FROM THE ANGUISH OF JIM'S
MURDER,
THE FAMILY FORMED THE
JAMES FOLEY LEGACY
FOUNDATION...
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC,
JOURNALISTS AND POLICY
MAKERS.
Diane Foley
Jim Foley's Mother
(1649) Our mission is to
advocate
for americans taken hostage
abroad, to protect independent
conflict journlaists and to
raise
awareness with the public and
students about these threats to
our
freedom.
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WE WILL PROVIDE MORE
INFORMATION ON THE FOLEY
FOUNDATION ON OUR WEBSITE,
WPRI-DOT-COM
WITH THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TIM WHITE
EYEWITNESS NEWS.
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COMING UP NEW ON
EYEWITNESS NEWS AT
SIX...
HEAR WHAT THEN-
PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD
DIANE FOLEY AFTER HER
SON'S KILLING.
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NEW DETAILS NOW ---
IN A TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS
EXCLUSIVE ---
AN AMERICAN HOSTAGE.
AT 5 --- WE BROUGHT YOU
OUR ONE-ON-ONE
INTERVIEW WITH THE
MOTHER OF JIM FOLEY.
HE WAS AN AMERICAN
JOURNALIST ---MURDERED
BY ISIS TERRORISTS IN
2014.
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NEW AT 6 -- DIANE FOLEY
TELLS US HOW---- SHE
MET WITH THEN-
PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA AFTER HER SON'S
KILLING,
EXPRESSING
FRUSTRATION TO THE
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
FOR HOW THE HOSTAGE
SITUATION WAS HANDLED.
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TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
TIM WHITE IS HERE NOW
WITH THE EXCLUSIVE
DETAILS.
DIANE FOLEY SPOKE WITH
PRESIDENT OBAMA TWICE,
ONCE OVER THE PHONE WHEN
A RESCUE MISSION TO SAVE
HER SON FAILED.
THE SECOND TIME IN THE OVAL
OFFICE...
AFTER THE COUNTRY FAILED TO
BRING HIM HOME.
FREELANCE JOURNALIST JIM
FOLEY WAS ON THE
FRONTLINES IN IRAQ
AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA AND
SYRIA.
FILING STORIES FROM WAR-
TORN REGIONS THAT WERE
GETTING LITTLE ATTENTION
FROM NATIONAL NEWS
OUTLETS.
IN 2012, HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY
ISIS TERRORISTS.
TWO YEARS LATER, A DEAD-
OF-NIGHT RAID BY U-S SPECIAL
FORCES WAS UNSUCCESSFUL...
FOLEY AND OTHER HOSTAGES,
HAD BEEN MOVED.
df; (1935) You know, poor man I
don't think he knew what to say.
JIM'S MOTHER DIANE FOLEY
SAYS SHE GOT WORD DIRECTLY
FROM THEN-PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA THAT THE
SECRET MISSION,
FAILED.
(1947) it was nine months after
they
knew where they were. So they
were gone.
ONE MONTH LATER,
JIM FOLEY WAS EXECUTED BY
TERRORIST GROUP, ISIS...
IN A SHOCKING VIDEO THAT
RATTLED THE COUNTRY.
President Obama
August, 2014
"No just God would stand for
what
they did yesterday and what they
do
every single day."
AFTER THE KILLING,
DIANE MET WITH THE
PRESIDENT IN THE OVAL
OFFICE.
(2007) he said Jim was the
highest
priority and I told he knew it
wasn't it
hadnt been. And I understood
that
its a complicated time. (2018)
IN THE WAKE OF FOLEY'S CASE,
OBAMA ORDERED A REVIEW OF
AMERICAN POLICIES ON
HOSTAGE SITUATIONS...
(0847) In 2015 Obama signed a
presidential directive that
authroized
an interagency fusion cell to
strategize how to bring
Americans
home. (0859)
THE DIRECTIVE OPENED LINES
OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES LIKE
THE CIA, FBI AND NSA.
(2053) So that was the way he
redeemedhimself, he's a good man
but there is no way these
americans
were a priority at that time,
they just
weren't.
NOW,
THE JAMES FOLEY LEGACY
FOUNDATION WORKS WITH
FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOVED
ONES TAKEN HOSTAGE...
AND TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF
OF AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
AND OTHERS, WHO ARE
CAPTURED OVERSEAS.
(1809) that when a brave
american
goes out to report or do
humanitarian work or educate
that to
me that should be a priority for
our
government to try and bring them
home (1824)
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WE WANT TO THANK THE JAMES
FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION
FOR PROVIDEINCE SOME OF
THE VIDEO USED IN THIS
REPORT.
MUCH OF IT, RECORDED BY JIM
FOLEY.
WITH THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TIM WHITE
EYEWITNESS NEWS