James Foley and other hostages murdered by ISIS were starved, brutally beaten and subjected to unbearable psychological torture before their grisly deaths.
Foley, 40 was singled out for the worst abuse by his bloodthirsty jihadist captors because of his American citizenship and US policy against hostage negotiations, witnesses told the New York Times.
"He told me how they had chained his feet to a bar and then hung the bar so that he was upside down from the ceiling," said Jejoen Bontinck, a 19-year-old former jihadist from Belgium who spent three weeks in the same cell as Foley in summer, 2013. "Then they left him there."
Cellmates said Foley was often waterboarded.
"It was when there was no blood," a former cellmate said, "than we knew he had suffered something even worse."
Their captors also played cruel mind games–making sure the Americans saw some European hostages set free, dangling the prospect of freedom that would never arrive for them.
"I am obviously pretty scared to die," wrote American hostage Peter Kassig, targeted to be the next prisoner to be executed. "The hardest part is not knowing — hoping, and wondering if I should even hope at all."
Captors offered hostages chocolates and asked intimate, personal questions that only the hostages would know the answers — showing the jihadists had been in contact loved ones back home.
Peter KassigPhoto: AP
Hostages often proclaimed their conversion to Islam, in hopes of receiving better treatment from captors. But Foley's leap of faith was probably a "sincere" embrace of the faith, according Bontinck.
"I recited the Quran with him," said Bontinck, who signed up to be an Islamic fighter only to be accused of being a spy.
"Most people would say, 'Let's convert so that we can get better treatment.' But in his case, I think it was sincere."
The brutality of living in secret ISIS prisons occasionally prompted hostages to turn on each other for the few rations and blankets available to them.
But that wasn't the case for Foley, who consistently tried to help fellow prisoners, former cellmates said.
This past Christmas, Foley even organized a "Secret Santa" program for cellmates with each fashioning a gift — from prison trash — for a randomly drawn fellow prisoner.
Secret Santa was a tradition in Foley's upbringing. The photographer's Secret Santa gave him a circle of wax, made from discarded candle, to cushion for forehead when he bowed in prayer.
British photographer John Cantlie was captured at the same time as James Foley. Cantlie remains in captivity and has been featured in a series of pro-ISIS video released by the terror group.
Hostages always knew their lives could be snuffed out in an instant.
When Russian hostage Sergey Gorbunov was dragged out of his cell and shot to death this past spring, the grisly video of that execution was shown to prisoners.
"This [captors would say] is what will happen to you if your government doesn't pay," according to former hostages.
Foley, a photographer, and fellow shutterbug John Cantlie had just filed pictures at a Syrian Internet cafe on Nov. 22, 2012, and were headed for Turkey when their taxi cab was ambushed. Gunmen handcuffed Foley and Cantlie and threw them in a van.
After two years of confinement, Foley was beheaded on Aug. 19 with the appalling footage splashed on the web. Cantlie, a British citizen, remains in captivity.
The masked fighters left behind Mustafa Ali, the photographers' Syrian translator.
"If you follow us, we'll kill you," they told Ali.
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