‘Islamic State’ fighters murder second US reporter

Militants of the ‘Islamic State’ group have murdered a second American reporter and released a video of the murder on Tuesday, September 2. The video, which shows a masked militant with a British accent cutting the throat of a captive, was discovered only by the SITE terrorism monitoring group. The victim, 31-year-old reporter, Steven Sotloff was the same person seen in a previous beheading video of journalist James Foley last month. The militant who carried out the execution addressed US President Barack Obama and criticized US foreign policy towards the Islamic State (IS). Obama has vowed the US to act relentlessly against the IS but admitted it did not yet have a strategy to deal with the group.

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