Steven Sotloff Beheaded by ISIS, Second American Journalist - Raw Video

Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist was beheaded by ISIS militants. The video was being uploaded online and many people criticized the video which was released by IS militants. ISIS militants threaten to kill the British journalist David Haines, a British citizen.

The Islamic State released a video early today (NZ time) purporting to show the beheading of American hostage Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over US air strikes on its insurgents in Iraq.

A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off "this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State".

The purported executioner appeared to be the same British-accented man who appeared in an August 19 video showing the killing of American journalist James Foley, and it showed a similar desert setting. In both videos, the captives wore orange jumpsuits.

"I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and ... on Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings," the man said.

"So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people."

In the video, Sotloff describes himself as "paying the price" for the US intervention in Iraq with his life.

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