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as flawless, but unfortunately it failed. abc s karen travers reports. reporter: the pentagon defended its failed mission to rescue james foley and other american hostages in syria. the mission was executed flawlessly after a significant period of preparation and planning and rehearsal. and the it turned out that the hostages were no longer at that location. intelligence doesn t come wrapped in a package with a bow. reporter: defense secretary chuck hagel said the u.s. expects isis to regroup and stage a new offensive. attorney general eric holder said there s an open criminal investigation into foley s murder. people will be held accountable one way or the other. reporter: isis demanded a ransom of $130 million in exchange for foley s release. we do not make concessions to terrorists, that includes we do not pay ransom. reporter: the ceo of globalpost, the news
the process say isis hostages from france and other european countries were set free after ransom payments of about $2 million cash each. delivered by middlemen from turkey. something the u.s. has refused to consider. in 2014 alone, isis have gotten millions of dollars from kidnapping of western citizens. obviously we believe very strongly we need to cut off their funding. reporter: as the fbi steps up its investigation, some former hostages identified jim foley s executioner as one of three british citizens the hostages nicknamed the beatles, who served as jailers, torturers and executioners for the islamic terror group. in a final chilling e-mail sent to jim foley s parents by isis. they wrote, you do not spare our women, our children, our elderly, our weak, so we will not spare yours. and that s how foley s parents learned their son would die. brian ross, abc news, new york. and there is growing concern about the fate of a second
as flawless, but unfortunately it failed. abc s karen travers reports. reporter: the pentagon defended its failed mission to rescue james foley and other american hostages in syria. the mission was executed flawlessly after a significant period of preparation and planning and rehearsal. and the it turned out that the hostages were no longer at that location. intelligence doesn t come wrapped in a package with a bow. reporter: defense secretary chuck hagel said the u.s. expects isis to regroup and stage a new offensive. attorney general eric holder said there s an open criminal investigation into foley s murder. people will be held accountable one way or the other. reporter: isis demanded a ransom of $130 million in exchange for foley s release. we do not make concessions to terrorists, that includes we do not pay ransom. reporter: the ceo of globalpost, the news organization foley was working
inspired by, by the american war on terror. reporter: foley filed his final report from syria for the global post just before he was captured almost two years ago. word of a failed rescue attempt that if it had worked would have saved foley s life. senior administration officials tell abc news that president obama authorized a bold u.s. military operation into syria earlier this summer to rescue foley and several u.s. hostages, but that when the special operations team arrived at the site there, were no hostages present. officials say several dozen u.s. forces were involved and that a number of isis fighters were killed. but there were no american casualties other than one slight injury. brian ross, abc news, new york. as of now, we have gotten no further word about the other american hostage seen in foley s execution video. isis threatened to kill journalist stephen soltoff, seen kneeling and dressed in an orange jumpsuit. the group says that he will be killed if u.s. bombing of