The president said that he had been forced to hold back tears when he spoke privately to the family of Foley, who was beheaded, but added that there was always the prospect of a "jarring" contrast between world events and his own efforts to carve out a semblance of a normal life through recreation.
And he also admitted that sometimes his own performance in some of the more public rituals of the presidency was lacking. "Part of this job, is also the theater of it. It's not something that always comes naturally to me. But it matters. And I'm mindful of that," Obama said.
Obama was hammered in the press after being pictured smiling and enjoying his round of golf after making a public statement last month after Foley's death, while he was on vacation on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard.
- AFP/ir
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/obama-regrets-golfing/1350586.html
7/9/14
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Steven Sotloff sold to ISIS by Syrian rebels, family claims...
ReplyDeleteThe family of Steven Sotloff said Monday that so-called moderate rebels detained him at the Syrian border before selling him to the Islamic State (IS) organisation, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
The spokesman for the Sotloff family, Barak Barfi, said on US television that they believed ISIS had paid as much as $50,000 for the US journalist they later beheaded.
“For the first time we can say Steven was sold at the border. Steven’s name was on a list that he had been responsible for the bombing of a hospital. This was false,” Barfi told CNN in a TV interview.
“We believe that the so-called moderate rebels that people want our administration to support, one of them sold [Sotloff] for probably something between $25,000 and $50,000 to ISIS, and that is the reason he was captured,” the spokesman added.................http://www.france24.com/en/20140909-sotloff-family-claims-syria-rebels-sold-us-journalist-is-isis-beheading/
9/9/14