James Foley statement

THE FULL STATEMENT OF JAMES FOLEY AS PER THE 3RD EDITION OF THE ISLAMIC STATES DIBAQ MAGAZINE

My name is James Wright Foley and I am an
American citizen. This is a message to the US
government and people.

The purpose of this message is not to appeal
for my freedom. This is because many chances
were given to my government and family to negotiate
for my release, all resulting in failure on
the part of my government and family.

My captors have made many efforts to ensure
a successful arrangement. From amongst these
efforts is that they made strict conditions on my
family and loved ones not to go to the media
with my case.

The reason for this condition was so that the US
government could come to a quick and discreet
arrangement and thus secure my release without
having to face public embarrassment and
openly oppose their practice of not negotiating
with supposed terrorists.

This proved very successful in the negotiations
for some of my fellow prisoners who were citizens
of European countries that openly share a
similar “zero tolerance” view on negotiating with
supposed terrorists.

However, all said governments executed the demands
for the release of their citizens while I and
the other Americans hopelessly waited for selfish
politicians who
 are void of any compassion to decide
our fate.
My fellow inmates and I were not captured simply
to be killed or held inevitably for no reason.
Just as many Muslims from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia,
Yemen, Libya and other Muslim countries
are currently prisoners of the US government
with many cases being of questionable legality
according to US law, we, the American people are
also victims of our government’s foreign policy.

Our government, for the last 13 years has
stretched our military around the Muslim world
to interfere in their affairs. They have killed in the
name of “preserving life,” tortured and raped in
the name of “humanity,” destroyed in the name
of “rebuilding,” and ruined the lives of millions of
people. They have incurred a great debt of blood
and wealth and it will be you and me, the average
citizens, who will inevitably pay the price of their
crimes.

Today our government is continuing its onslaught
on the Muslim lands once again with its aerial
bombardments on some of the largest cities of
Iraq, killing and wounding many.

As I speak here before you, I call on you to wake
up and take your lives and the lives of your children
into your own hands. Do not allow yourselves
to be pawns in the hands of politicians so
they can decide whether you live or die!

And remember, it could very easily be you in my
place tomorrow!
(This section onwards is on the James Foley video)
I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise
up against my real killers, the US government,
for what will happen to me is only a result of
their complacency and criminality.

My message to my beloved parents is, save me
some dignity and do not accept any meager
compensation for my death from the same people
who effectively hit the last nail into my coffin
with their recent aerial campaign in Iraq.

I call on my brother John, who is a part of the
US air force, to think about what he’s doing and
how his work destroys the lives of many people
including that of his own family.

I call on you John, to think about whoever made
the decision to bomb Iraq recently and kill those
people, whoever they might have been. Think
John. Who is it they really killed? And did they
think about me, or you, or our family and how
that decision is going to affect us?

I died on that day John. When your colleagues
dropped those bombs, they signed my death
certificate!

I wish I had more time. I wish I could have the
hope of freedom and seeing my family once
again. Unfortunately, that boat has sailed.
Now all I can say is that I wish I were from some
other country whose government actually cares
about its citizens.

I guess all in all, I just wish I wasn’t American.