Steven Sotloff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Steven Sotloff

American journalist

Date of Birth: 11-May-1983

Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, United States

Date of Death: 02-Sep-2014

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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About Steven Sotloff

  • Steven Joel Sotloff (Hebrew: ????? ???????; May 11, 1983 – c.
  • September 2, 2014) was an American-Israeli journalist.
  • In August 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held captive by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). On September 2, 2014, ISIS released a beheading video, showing one of its members beheading Sotloff.
  • Following Sotloff's beheading, U.S.
  • President Barack Obama stated that the United States would take action to "degrade and destroy" ISIS.President Obama also signed an Executive Order dated June 24, 2015, in the presence of the Sotloff family and other hostage families, overhauling how the U.S.
  • handles U.S.
  • hostages held abroad by groups such as ISIS.The capture and beheading of Steven Sotloff, and of fellow journalist James Foley a month prior, initiated broad public awareness of ISIL/ISIS after the beheadings were shown on the Internet and then on international television.Sotloff's legacy is, in part, that he broke the Benghazi story to CNN, that there was no protest, and that he foresaw the massive Syrian Refugee Crisis as he reported on the everyday people's suffering in Syria, thus earning him the reputation as "The Voice for the Voiceless."

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