The mother of James Foley, an American journalist who was abducted in 2012 by ISIS and later brutally murdered, says she hopes the death of the terror group's leader this weekend will lead to its demise but warned the US to remain vigilant.
"I'm hopeful that his demise will be a huge blow to the regrouping of ISIS. However, we need to continue to be very vigilant because they certainly want to regroup and bring back their reign of terror, but I'm very, very grateful," Diane Foley told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on"New Day." The Baghdadi raid was named after ISIS victim Kayla Mueller.
For nearly two years after 2012, Foley's captors demanded millions in ransom payments and moved the freelance journalist between prisons before he was beheaded in a video that was widely publicized online.Diane Foley, who serves as the president and founder of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, said on Monday that news of Baghdadi's death"came as such a welcome surprise" and that she was grateful to US troops involved in in the raid.
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