The family of James Foley have released the final email sent by his kidnappers telling them he would be killed - just days before the video of his murder emerged.
In the email, received by the family on August 12, the Islamic State militant group said: "You do not spare our weak, elderly, women or children so we will not spare yours!
"You and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings! The first of which being the blood of the American citizen, James Foley!
"He will be executed as a direct result of your transgressions towards us!"
James Foley resting in a room at the airport of Sirte, Libya in 2011 In the message, IS claimed it had given the US "many chances to negotiate the release of your people via cash transactions as other governments have accepted".
However, Mr Foley's family said this was not true.
They say the first message they received from his captors was in November 2013, more than a year after he went missing in Syria.
In the email they demanded money.
After the militants proved to the family and investigators they were holding the 40-year-old, they made a ransom demand of £80m ($132.5m).
John and Diane Foley, the parents of James Foley The next time the family heard from the captors was on August 12.
GlobalPost, one of the news organisations Mr Foley worked for, said it chose to publish the message in full "in the interest of transparency and to fully tell Jim's story".
"We believe the text offers insight into the motivations and tactics of the Islamic State."
In the email, the kidnappers explain their wish for US-educated, Pakistani-born scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui to be released.
James Foley working in Syria in 2012. Pic: Manu Brabo Dr Siddiqui was found with documents on chemical weapons, dirty bombs and viruses upon her arrest in Afghanistan in 2008. She is serving 86 years in a US jail.
On Thursday, Pope Francis called Mr Foley's parents to express his condolences and assuring them of his prayers, the Vatican said.
As efforts continue to track down Mr Foley's killer, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the threat posed by IS is "beyond anything we have seen".
The group said it beheaded the journalist in retaliation for US airstrikes in Iraq aimed at reversing the sweeping gains made by IS this summer.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said a criminal investigation has been launched into Mr Foley's murder.
Counter-terrorism police in the UK have already begun efforts to identify the black-clad man seen in the video beheading Mr Foley.
Although his face is covered, he speaks with an English, possibly London, accent.
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