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Steven Sotloff American Journalist beheaded by ISIS + Photo of Steven Sotloff

The execution of Mr. Sotloff, 31, came despite pleas from his mother aimed directly at ISIS’s top leader seeking mercy for her son

Shafaqna – Mirror reported: The terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has beheaded Steven Joel Sotloff, the second American executed by the Islamic militant group, and posted a video of it on the Internet, the SITE Intelligence Group, a research organization that tracks jihadist web postings, said Tuesday.

 

The execution of Mr. Sotloff, 31, came despite pleas from his mother aimed directly at ISIS’s top leader seeking mercy for her son, a freelance journalist who was captured in northern Syria a year ago.

 

Word of Mr. Sotloff’s beheading came two weeks after James Foley, 45, another American journalist, was beheaded by ISIS, which warned that Mr. Sotloff would be the next to die.

 

Shirley Sotloff, the mother of Steven J. Sotloff, a kidnapped journalist, on video asking ISIS militants to free him.U.S. Captive’s Mother Issues Plea to ISISAUG. 27, 2014

Steven J. Sotloff, 31, was abducted last year while covering the conflict in Syria.Steven Sotloff, Journalist Held by ISIS, Was Undeterred by Risks of JobAUG. 22, 2014

James Foley, in a photo from the website FreeJamesFoley.org, in Aleppo, Syria, in November 2012, the month he disappeared.ISIS Video Purports to Show Beheading of James FoleyAUG. 19, 2014

In the latest video, Mr. Sotloff describes himself as “paying the price” for the Obama administration’s decision to strike ISIS targets in Iraq. The same masked fighter who appeared in the video of Mr. Foley’s beheading also appears beside Mr. Sotloff, asserting, “I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State.”

 

The SITE group also said ISIS was threatening a third captive, a Briton it identified as David Cawthorne Haines, as the next beheading victim.

 

At least two other Americans are believed to be held by ISIS.

Source of Photos and news: Mirror and dailymail

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