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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The British Jihadists Who Murdered James Foley

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August 21, 2014
MONSTERS
Just weeks before James Foley was abducted in 2012, alleged members of a jihadi kidnapping network tied to ISIS were arrested and charged in Britain. Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report that the London legal case was viewed among extremist groups in Syria as a call to action to accelerate abductions.
TOUGH JOB

A U.S. Special Operations team tried and failed to rescue James Foley and other Americans held captive in Syria in a secret mission earlier this summer. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby released a statement, saying the U.S. "attempted a rescue operation recently to free a number of American hostages held in Syria by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)." However, it "was not successful because the hostages were not present at the targeted location." According to senior administration officials, several dozen commandos were dropped into a remote part of Syria where American intelligence believed many of the hostages were being held. They exchanged gunfire with militants. One American was wounded, but all team members made it out alive.

TARGET ACQUIRED
The real battle over the militarization of the police force will take place on Capitol Hill. Tim Mak reports that national police organizations are ramping up their lobbying, even making the case to keep mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles.
SPEAKING OUT

Speaking to the family of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder discussed his own interactions with police that made him feel "angry and upset." Holder detailed a time he was pulled over in Georgetown while he was a federal prosecutor and asked "Where are you going?" He also related the time when he had his car searched during a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. "I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was," he said. Holder, who is the first African-American to hold his post, declared, "I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man."

IT'S ALIVE
There have been about 40 known cases of the Lazarus phenomenon, in which a patient believed to be dead spontaneously starts circulating blood. Sandeep Jauhar reports on the mystery of why certain deaths are "reversible."

ON TARGET
Israel Kills 3 Hamas Commanders
In air strike.
BACK OFF
Cop Removed for Making Death Threat
Pointed gun at Ferguson group.
LITTLE LEAGUE
Mo'ne Davis Gets SI Cover
Age 13.

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