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ISIL Posts Video of Beheading Second US Reporter

American journalist Steven Sotloff

Another video was released by sites believed to be connected to the ISIL showing another American being beheaded by a masked ISIL Terrorist.

However, The White House said that it had yet to authenticate the footage, which SITE said showed 31-year-old freelance writer Steven Sotloff on his knees beside an IS fighter with a knife.

“If the video is genuine, we are sickened by this brutal act,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said of the footage released by the militants, in which 31-year-old freelance writer Steven Sotloff appears to have been killed.

In addition,ISIL militants also threatened to kill a British hostage.

And according to NPR :
U.S. officials say the video showing the beheading of a second U.S. journalist by militants of the Islamic State is authentic. “The U.S. Intelligence Community has analyzed the recently released video showing U.S. citizen Steven Sotloff and has reached the judgment that it is authentic,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement Wednesday.

And according to The New York Times reports that in the video released today, Sotloff says he is “paying the price” for the Obama administration’s airstrikes in Iraq.

American journalist Steven Sotloff
American journalist Steven Sotloff (left) talks with Libyan rebels on the Al Dafniya front line on June 2, 2011, in Misrata, Libya. Sotloff was kidnapped in August 2013 near Aleppo, Syria.

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3 Comments

  1. Alandu Richard

    America should find a better way of dealing with the stuation rather than allow inocent young journalist to be killed needlessly may be a political solution might help more tham military

  2. lazaros lazarou

    what ever you see happening around the world that has evil roots back to the devil and the zoinists when satan was thrownout of heaven his force locked srait onto the filthy jews they created pharssis drowned in evil to kill the christ once they achieved the most evil of all killing jesus the rest is easy thats why its all over we will soon be in ww3 killing for the fun of it but when jesus shows a second time we the true faith holds will survive not even one of the so called outside religons who dont practise jesus willperish go to an orthodox church and be baptised proply you might have a chance in christs new world order where its all good and positive

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