UPDATE: (CNN) — The mother of American journalist James Foley praised her son on Tuesday, hours after ISIS posted a video purporting to show his beheading. “We have never been prouder of our son Jim. He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people,” she said in a post on the Free James Foley Facebook page. “We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages. Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world.”
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By Chelsea J. Carter
CNN
CNN’s Mohammed Tawfeeq and Mayra Cuevas, Brian Stelter and Elise Labott contributed to this report.
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