Brutal beheading of James Foley an attempt to provoke ground invasion of Iraq and Syria

By Tom Allard
Updated August 21 2014 - 2:08pm, first published 12:15am

The purpose of the horrific video of the beheading of US photojournalist James Foley seems straightforward – to terrify the US into halting its aerial bombardment of the militant group.

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