Steven Sotloff

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Steven Joel Sotloff (born May 11, 1983 in Miami , Florida , † August or September 2014 ) was an American - Israeli journalist who, like his colleague James Foley , was murdered by terrorists from the Islamic State organization .

Life

Sotloff grew up in Florida. During his schooling he attended a high school in Meriden in the state of New Hampshire . There he developed an interest in writing and worked for the school newspaper. From 2002 to 2004 he studied at the University of Central Florida , where he graduated as a journalist. He then worked as a freelance journalist for Time magazine , the British Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Policy magazine , among others . Sotloff reported from Egypt , Bahrain , Libya , Turkey and most recently from Syria . There he was apparently abducted on August 4, 2013 near Aleppo .

death

On August 19, 2014, Steven Sotloff was seen in a video published on YouTube that showed the beheading of James Foley by a masked terrorist from the Islamic State organization and then threatened with the "execution" of Sotloff. A video allegedly showing Sotloff's beheading by Jihadi John was released on September 2, 2014. The US government confirmed its authenticity. The same video also showed how the terrorists threatened the murder of the British David Cawthorne Haines they kidnapped . As before with Foley, British forensic scientists questioned the authenticity of the video. Forensic experts at the US National Center for Media Forensics in Denver were of the opinion that the only rudimentary killings of Foley and Sotloff were not authentic, but the pictures of the decapitated corpses were.

aftermath

The US President Barack Obama announced after Sotloffs to murder, the US will not be intimidated by the "horrific violence" and do the course of justice.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam Chandler: Israel Reveals That Steven Sotloff Was Also an Israeli Citizen. In: The Wire of September 3, 2014 (accessed September 3, 2014).
  2. ↑ a b c Death of a fearless man. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 2, 2014 (accessed on September 3, 2014).
  3. ↑ Rick Gladstone, Shreeya Sinha: Steven Sotloff, Journalist Held by ISIS, Was Undeterred by Risks of Job. In: The New York Times, August 22, 2014 (accessed September 3, 2014).
  4. ↑ a b c USA confirm authenticity of the video. ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Message on tagesschau.de from September 3, 2014 (accessed on September 3, 2014).
  5. ↑ Polly Mosendz: Friends of Captured Journalist Steven Sotloff Come Forward to Tell His Story. In: The Wire of August 21, 2014 (accessed September 3, 2014).
  6. ↑ Terrorist militia IS apparently beheading another US hostage. In: Spiegel Online from September 2, 2014 (accessed September 3, 2014).
  7. ↑ Obama threatens terrorist militia: "Our range is great". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 3, 2014 (accessed on September 3, 2014).
  8. ↑ Deborah Haynes: Steven Sotloff's death in video 'staged'. In: The Australian of September 5, 2014 (accessed September 22, 2014).
  9. ^ Media Forensics Experts Analyzing ISIS Video In Denver. Announcement by CBS Denver dated September 3, 2014 (accessed September 24, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Sotloff, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sotloff, Steven Joel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Israeli journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , Florida , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 2014 or September 2014