ISIS releases new video that apparently shows beheading of Steven Sotloff

Horrible news, but entirely consistent with their behavior to date. Rest in peace, Steven Sotloff.

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Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against the backdrop of an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq. In the video distributed Tuesday and entitled “A Second Message to America,” Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is beheaded by an Islamic State fighter. In a transcript of the video released by SITE Intel Group, the man identifies himself as Sotloff. “Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for the preservation of American lives and interests, so why is that I am paying the price of your interference with my life. Am I not an American citizen? 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, so where is the people’s interest in reigniting this war?” the man identified as Sotloff said in the video. The man who purportedly beheaded Sotloff in the video stated he was back.

ISIS now says a British hostage named David Haines will be next to be beheaded. Pray for that man. It should be clear by now that ISIS means what it says and will do it. Rob asks a good question: How many journalists have to die before the media demands that Obama come up with a strategy, since hundreds of Christians weren't enough to get their attention?

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