James Foley's mother says the government threatened his family to not pay ransom

[shrewsbury]

we both don't know what it feels like to have a son held by terrorists demanding ransoms for his life...

We don't know what was said to them. We don't know what they felt. I'd imagine they were emotionally wrecked.

agreed, but all the more reason to question someone telling you not to pay his ransom

[stlcardinalsfan]

Didn't watch the video but heard that they never showed the beheading just the head on the body afterwards?

This whole thing is sketchy to me.

Bush had his "WMDs", Obama has his "Beheadings"

all it shows is the guy grabbing his head and taking a small knife and begins to what looks like massage his neck with it...."cut his neck off". not cut is shown and dosnt look right tbh.... no blood...nothing it then fades and shows foleys "body" on the ground with his "head" on his chest. hardly any blood anywhere. the body looks oddly like a cpr dummy.