IS Beheads Second U.S. Reporter, Threatens to Execute British Hostage
The so-called "Islamic State" released a video on Tuesday showing a masked militant apparently beheading an American journalist and threatening to kill a British captive.
The footage, seen by Agence France-Presse after it was found online by private terrorism monitor SITE, shows 31-year-old freelance reporter Steven Sotloff dressed in orange and on his knees in a desert landscape.
The masked militant condemns the ongoing U.S. strikes against the Islamic State -- a Sunni jihadist group that operates in Iraq and Syria -- and cuts Sotloff's throat.
He then introduces a second captive, identified in a caption by name as a British citizen.
"I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State," the militant says, speaking in what sounds like a London accent.
This was an apparent reference to a previous video in which U.S. journalist James Foley was murdered, again by a suspected British foreign fighter and in an almost identical fashion.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the latest video depicted an "absolutely disgusting, despicable act."
The previous video was released last month after U.S. President Barack Obama ordered air strikes against the Islamic State.
It showed 40-year-old Foley's death at the hands of a masked militant who then threatened Sotloff, a Miami-born freelance reporter who has written for Time magazine, Foreign Policy and other outlets.
U.S. officials said they were working to confirm the authenticity of the latest video, and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would be "sickened" if it proved genuine.
American air strikes against IS positions and vehicles continued in the wake of Foley's death, and more than 120 have been carried out, most of them hitting targets around Iraq's largest dam north of Mosul.
The video, shot with the same high production values as its predecessor, is entitled: "A second message to America."
It opens with a clip of Obama vowing to be "relentless" in his determination to protect U.S. citizens from IS attacks.
Sotloff identifies himself in English and calmly explains that he is paying the price for Obama's policy. His killer also speaks in English.
Sotloff was kidnapped in northern Syria more than a year ago, on August 4, 2013. His family only publicly revealed his captivity last month, having previously requested a media blackout.
over 10 years
Horrifying, but this used to be a regular occurrence in Iraq when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who came to Iraq from Iran and his alQaeda terrorists who were sent across the Syrian border operated there
over 10 years
I would recommend bombing them back to the stone age but they are already there. Obama may go back the same golf-course now and play another round...
over 10 years
We'll probably get another "no strategy" briefing from Obama. In the meantime, ISIS is now burying/hiding their facilities in Syria as we diddle around.
over 10 years
You are right. Wish Cheney was in power-- he would have erased all of these Islamic creeps and Iran as well.
over 10 years
Flamethrower.. one question: where do you live? and you must have nightmares about march14...
over 10 years
Jerry don't hold ur breath throwup was carrying a big xlarge umbrella when god almighty was distributing brains ....haram he never got one.....u repulse me flamethrower ...ur comment and twisted behavior shows how much ur a shame to the country u claim ur citizen off....3eib 3aleik ba2a ste7i 3a dammak
over 10 years
anony: what flamethrower really wants if you notice is for the LAF to openly enter the war against ISIL, join the Syrian army and HA and see the LAF incur enormous losses. All he does is attack anyone or any person who is trying to negotiate the release of the soldiers while in the past he was praising HA for taking Turkish hostages and idolizing abbas Ibrahim for his skills in negotiating the release of his shia pilgrims. Stop asking my friend, it is useless!
over 10 years
no amatoury, he was born on the airport freeway coz that's where most accidents happen.
over 10 years
Excatly. Remembrer that hizbollah kidnapped 92 foreigners and killed 12 of them between 1980 and 1990.
over 10 years
yea with red crosses painted under the wings.... and napalm bombs preferably...
over 10 years
Exactly veritas. The USA campaign against ISIS will only succeed if the USA is seen to have finally made up its mind regarding getting rid of assad. As such it will garner total Arab countries support and a free hand. You may have listened to Obama saying "we have to work with Sunnis and Sunni regimes regarding a common strategy against ISIS". These regimes and specifically KSA will enter the alliance if they have assurances that Obama will also help finish off assad regime. It all started with assad and it it will end up with assad.
over 10 years
let all the arabs (jame3at el doual el Arabia) call for military strike as they did for Syria for use of chemical weapons to do the same for use of da3ichme and salafie wabisime and nuke them out once and for all
over 10 years
Lol i agree titan wheres HA they should be included as well
over 10 years
LOL... if you were to put flamethrower's brains in a bird, it surely will fly backwards. That's how retarded he is.
over 10 years
SOS
Like others I am getting really sick (nausea, anxiety)
Waiting everyday a counterattack from civil world to stop IS
Instead reading more atrocities.
What are the nations waiting for?
No more talks but actions,
No more imprisonment but extermination
Impose peace by force
Unfortunately this is the only way to extract cancer
over 10 years
Isis and Iran need to go simultaneously--- as well as other filth that have put us in the position that we are in today, notably Southern and Flamethrower's heroes.
over 10 years
Agreed.
over 10 years
Have you looked in the mirror lately?
over 10 years
Roar, I share your disgust at this barbaric mindset. Unfortunately if you read their holy scriptures they are not doing anything outside the manuel. What is truly disgusting/ or perhaps more concerning is the fact the Arab league implicitly does not condemn these animals. Our moderate friends have learnt to incorporate the good and discard the bad but it does seem the silent majority is a greater concern.
over 10 years
Simple Question
With the support so so many nations and the American people
I wonder what is
Barak HUSSEIN Obama waiting for?
over 10 years
flamethrower... I almost shed a tear or two, almost
over 10 years
They are already on the Golan Height, if Israel doesn't stop them how long do you think that it will take before they are knocking on the door of the Parliament in Beirut?
The biggest enemy of Islam is/are their religious leaders, the Arab governments and the fanatics followers with such an army you don't need other enemies.