ISIS Beheads Second US Reporter
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From the Right
Video reportedly shows beheading of reporter Steven Sotloff by ISISThe global terror intelligence firm SITE first reported the release of the 2-minute video, titled "A Second Message to America," in which Sotloff, a 31-year-old freelance journalist, speaks to the camera before a cloaked Islamic State fighter decapitates him.
“I’m sure you know exactly who I am by now and why I am appearing,” Sotloff said under apparent duress. "Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for preservation of American lives and interests, so why is it that I am paying the price of your...
From the Left
Islamic State releases video depicting another beheadingThe terrorist group Islamic State released a video Tuesday apparently depicting the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.
It was the second video of a beheading released by the group in recent weeks..
Sotloff, kneeling in an orange jumpsuit, says he is "paying the price" for the U.S. intervention in Iraq with his life.
"You've spent billions of U.S. taxpayers dollars and we've lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State," Sotfloff says. "So where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?"
Moments later,...
From the Left
Islamic State claims to have beheaded American journalist Steven SotloffA new video attributed to the Islamic State terrorist organization purports to show the beheading of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, marking the second such execution in recent weeks by a group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria and has threatened to kill other captives.
The video shows a bound Sotloff being held at knifepoint by a black-clad militant against a desert backdrop that appears similar to the one shown in a video released last month depicting the beheading of American journalist James Foley. The video was obtained by the...
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