How a grieving mother tried to 'build a bridge' with the militant convicted in her son's murder
A new book describes a series of conversations between the mother of an American hostage who was brutally murdered by Islamic State militants in Syria and one of the men who contributed to his death
WASHINGTON (AP) — After hours of talking about faith and family, redemption and war, the grieving American mother had an additional question for the Islamic militant convicted in her son's murder.
Do you know, Diane Foley asked, where my son is buried?
The exchange is described in a new book by Foley that recounts face-to-face encounters she had with the British-born Islamic State fighter who was charged in connection with the brutal beheading in Syria of her son James, a freelance journalist.
Sitting in a windowless courthouse conference room with the man who contributed to her son’s death, Foley said in an interview, was meant as a “tiny step” toward reparation — “for him to begin to kind of understand where we were coming from and for me to try to hear him.”
