ISIS Wants to Sell James Foley’s Body for $1 Million

Per BuzzFeed’s Mike Giglio, ISIS is now trying to sell the body of James Foley, the American freelance journalist they beheaded last summer, for $1 million.

Giglio talked to a former Syrian rebel, who told him:

This former rebel said he was approached by an ISIS leader who asked him to find a channel to either the U.S. government or Foley’s family. Like the other sources, he noted a price of $1 million and the promise of DNA. “They ask for $1 million, and they will send DNA to Turkey, but they want the money first,” he said. “They will not give the DNA without the money.”

He claimed his motivation was to help the grieving family find closure, calling his work “a humanity case.”

ISIS executed several western journalists last summer, part of a terror campaign to raise the Sunni militant group’s global specter. Foley’s execution, and the following murder of Steven Sotloff, compelled a military response from the United States and some Middle Eastern countries, arguably what ISIS was after.

[h/t BuzzFeed]

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