09-02-2014, 02:20 PM
Last month, the Islamic State (IS) terrorists released a video Message to America in retaliation for US intervention in Iraq -- the video depicted the beheading of American Journalist James Foley, captured in Syria in 2012. The video included a threat to do the same to American journalist Steven Sotloff, also captured in Syria in 2013, if the US did not cease airstrikes in Iraq.
The US did not discontinue its airstrikes to assist the Kurds and Iraqi military in fighting off IS in Iraq following the Foley decapitation.
Today, IS released a video of Steven Sotloff being beheaded and threatened to do the same to British aid worker David Haines if western intervention continued.
I think this will put additional pressure on President Obama to announce a strategy for Syria. Obama has not responded to the second message from IS yet; the Sotloff video is reportedly still being authenticated.
(More about the IS videos and tactics is covered in the IRAQ thread, here: http://mockforums.net/showthread.php?tid=10618&page=11 )
The US did not discontinue its airstrikes to assist the Kurds and Iraqi military in fighting off IS in Iraq following the Foley decapitation.
Today, IS released a video of Steven Sotloff being beheaded and threatened to do the same to British aid worker David Haines if western intervention continued.
I think this will put additional pressure on President Obama to announce a strategy for Syria. Obama has not responded to the second message from IS yet; the Sotloff video is reportedly still being authenticated.
(More about the IS videos and tactics is covered in the IRAQ thread, here: http://mockforums.net/showthread.php?tid=10618&page=11 )