The harrowing lives Of ISIS hostages and the last days of James Foley

October 26, 2014 13:07

The deaths of Islamic State group hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Cawthorne Haines and Alan Henning were gruesome, shocking and very public, the video footage of their beheadings in the desert widely distributed by their captors. But the world has known little, if anything, about the months and years of captivity leading up to those final moments. It was hell.

As recounted in a vivid New York Times report, drawn in part from interviews with former cellmates, Foley and fellow victims endured periods of living in near total darkness, rations that amounted to a "teacup" of food per day, and, of course, torture.

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