The complicated truth

James Foley
PHOTO: ALAMY/SIPA USA/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL. RICK WOOD

WHEN DIANE Foley gets the news in August 2014 that her eldest son, James, a freelance journalist, is dead, she refuses to believe it for some hours.

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