(CNN, AP) – An Internet video purports to show beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff by Islamic State group, the Associated Press reports.
This horrifying news comes just a few days after Sotloff’s mother made a plea to the terrorists holding her son hostage: No individual should be punished for events he cannot control. [eap_ad_1] Shirley Sotloff spoke directly to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video broadcast Wednesday on Al Arabiya Network.
Her son, freelance journalist Steven Sotloff, appeared last week in an ISIS video showing the decapitation of American journalist James Foley.
The militant in the video warns that Steven Sotloff’s fate depends on what President Barack Obama does next in Iraq.
A day after the video was posted, Obama vowed that the United States would be “relentless” in striking back against ISIS.
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