James Foley's Captors Originally Asked For Huge Ransom -- CNN
(CNN) -- The captors of American journalist James Foley originally demanded a ransom of 100 million euros ($132.5 million), according to GlobalPost spokesman Richard Byrne.
Foley was a freelancer for GlobalPost.
Earlier, Philip Balboni, the president and chief executive of GlobalPost, told the Wall Street Journal that the captors also demanded that money from Foley's family.
Balboni declined to discuss GlobalPost's reply to the demand, saying all communication was shared with appropriate government authorities, The Journal reported Thursday.
The Islamic extremist group ISIS, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, published a video Tuesday showing the journalist's beheading. Foley, 40, was a native of New Hampshire.
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My Comment:If this was their ransom demand .... this tells me that they were never serious about releasing him unless this was their opening bid in the hope that they would get something less .... like a million dollars.
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