Mother of James Foley embodies grace in new book ‘American Mother’
Diane Foley remembers the moment she got the call: Would you like to sit down with one of the men involved in your son’s death?
“I knew I wanted to meet him,” she says in a video call. “I had no doubt. I knew Jim would not have wanted me to be afraid, and that Jim would have wanted me to hear his side of the story.”
Her son, James Foley, was an American journalist taken hostage in 2012 while reporting in northwestern Syria. After 22 months in captivity, he was beheaded by the Islamic State group (ISIS).
“American Mother” opens with the
