(Photo: Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
A
man holds up a sign in memory of U.S. journalist James Foley during a
protest against the Assad regime in Syria in Times Square in New York,
Aug. 22, 2014. Foley, who was abducted in Syria in late 2012, was
beheaded by a masked member of the Islamic State in an act filmed in a
video released on Aug. 19 that also threatened a second American
journalist, Steven Sotloff.
James Foley, who would have been
41 years old Saturday had he not been brutally beheaded by ISIS
militants in August, was remembered at a memorial at his home church in
Rochester, New Hampshire, which was also attended by Gov. Maggie Hassan
and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
"I'll never make complete sense of why Jim died," New York Daily News quoted
the slain journalist's brother, Michael Foley, as saying at the service
at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary church Saturday. "But I don't think
that's for me to understand."
Foley, who was the first U.S.
citizen to have been killed by the Islamic State, or ISIS terrorists,
was a freelance journalist and photojournalist covering the Syrian Civil
War for Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost when he was abducted on
Nov. 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria.
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