Smith’s legal team says these movements Thursday night show “he was not anesthetized at any point during the agonizingly long procedure.”

“Jim” agonizingly tells Foley’s story in the words of his friends, family and fellow prisoners, even beyond his very public execution.

American-backed Iraqi forces have seized outlying areas and about one-quarter of Mosul proper, but their advance into dense inner districts has been agonizingly slow.