The dead body of beheaded American journalist James Foley may have been simply "tossed into the ground somewhere" by ISIS executioners, it has been claimed. The sickening revelation that the bodies of Foley and other murdered hostages were thoughtlessly dumped by callous ISIS thugs, were made in the book My Journey Into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State by journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer - according to The Guardian. Todenhöfer was the first western reporter to visit ISIS-controlled Syria and Iraq and return home safely after being given exclusive access to the region by an overweight, white German ISIS militant named Abu Qatadah. Radical Muslim convert Qatadah told of Foley's harrowing fate during an interview with the German journalist as he gave him an "eerie" driven tour of Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa and Mosul. When asked what ISIS executioners did with the bodies of murdered hostages, including James Foley, he said: "They were buried individually, or rather, tossed into the ground. Somewhere." In the book Todenhöfer lays bare the inner workings of Islamic State's controlled territories, lifting the lid on their way of life under their barbaric version of sharia law. He describes what he sees on his 2014 visit to the so-called caliphate including his tour of the state's ‘ISIS publishing' media department, where books and brochures such as "How to Handle Your Slaves" and "How Women Should Behave and Dress" are printed before being distributed to mosques. He writes: "For theft of goods worth more than $40 (£28), a hand is cut off. $40 is the price of a gram of gold. "At the moment, Isis finances itself mostly through assets seized in war, sales of oil and the zakat. Speaking of slave markets, Todenhöfer adds: "Slaves are part of the spoils of war and therefore either go to the fighters or are sold. "A Yazidi woman is worth about $1,500 (£1,050) at the moment. About the same price as a Kalashnikov." He also describes the chilling moment he realised he had been driven around by an angry, masked driver who turned out to be one of the world's most wanted men - Jihadi John. But in the book both Todenhöfer and his photographer son Frederic revealed they only realised their anonymous driver was the infamous ISIS poster boy in retrospect. Todenhöfer wrote: "A couple of days after our return, Frederic gives me a call. "‘Do you recognise this voice?' he asks. "The voice I hear is unclear, but the rhythm of the speech seems familiar – it's our ‘driver'. "Frederic says: ‘That is Jihadi John, the executioner.'"
