Bravery was a trait friends had always noticed about Mr. Foley, who was abducted in November 2012 in northern Syria while reporting for the international news service GlobalPost and other agencies. “He just had this gene that didn’t know fear,” said Jeremy Osgood, a friend of Mr. Foley’s since their childhood in rural New Hampshire.
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FILE – In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston. A video by Islamic State militants that purports to show the killing of Foley by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Islamic State militants released a video Tuesday showing that Mr. Foley had been beheaded in protest to US airstrikes. President Obama condemned the act as a “brutal murder” during a news conference Wednesday on Martha’s Vineyard.