Steven Sotloff
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Steven Joel Sotloff (May 11, 1983 – September 2, 2014) was an American-Israeli journalist.
He was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held hostage by Islamist militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS). ISIS released a beheading video on September 2, 2014, revealing one of its supporters beheading Sotloff.
Following Sotloff's beheading, President Barack Obama said that the US would take steps to "degrade and destroy" ISIS, as well as fellow journalist James Foley, who died on the Benghazi story and then on international television, giving him the title of "the Voice for the Voiceless."
Early life and education
Steven Sotloff, Arthur and Shirley Sotloff's son, and a grandson of Holocaust survivors who inspired him to be "a voice for the voiceless." He was Lauren Sotloff's brother. He grew up in Pinecrest, graduated from Rumsey Hall School, Kimball Union Academy, and later attended (but not graduate) the University of Central Florida with a major in journalism from 2002 to 2004. He moved from 2005 to 2008, graduating with a major in government studies and counter-terrorism.
After a Birthright trip inspired him to fall in love with Israel and held citizenship of both the United States and Israel, but not so much in Muslim countries or during his captivity for fear that the truth might endanger his release. Sotloff expressed a keen interest in the Middle East and its history, and he travelled to Yemen to study Arabic.
Career
Sotloff was in Qatar and wrote a letter of application dated May 29, 2010 to the Arabic for Non Native Speakers (ANNS) faculty at Qatar University, according to Al-Jazeera. He then travelled around the area with a Yemeni cellphone number. He began working in the Arab Spring. Sotloff had worked with Time, The Christian Science Monitor, The National Interest, Media Line, World Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and had appeared on CNN and Fox News. His career took him to Syria a number of times, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Libya, and Bahrain.
Sotloff, the reporter who broke the Benghazi story, told CNN that there was no protest that caused the killings and destruction, as US media had expected. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux called his deeply researched book "an excellent piece of journalism."
He wrote in Time magazine about Al-Qaeda fighters and generals from Libya, who migrated to Syria, and shipping weapons and ammunition on his way to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime. He was also one of a team of reporters who returned to Benghazi, where the US ambassador and three other Americans were killed on the night of 9/11. He interviewed Libyan security guards who were at the site during the attack. Ahmad Abu Khattallah, a Libyan militia operative, was named as the head of the group (Ansar al-Sharia) that attacked the US base and as the man who ordered and led the attack. Following the US assault on the ambassador's Benghazi compound, he later revealed a tit-for-tat retribution pattern. He had written from Turkey a week before going to Libya to warn the Alawites there and their aid for Assad, as another article published the same day warned of Alawites inside Syria that were against Assad. "He lived in Yemen for years and deeply loved (the) Islamic world," Ann Marlowe, who worked with Sotloff in Libya.
By Time, The Daily Telegraph, and NBC News, Sotloff's journalistic work in Syria interviewing the everyday people who caused the Syrian Refugee Crisis is in large part what earned him the title of "The Voice for the Voiceless." Many who knew him as a gentle man who "was determined to cover the human dimensions of the Middle East conflict," humbly referring to himself as a "stand-up philosopher from Miami."
"He was worried that he had been on some kind of database," Newsweek's Middle East editor, Janine Di Giovanni, told CNN, "He was worried about it." The rebels had been on alert, and ISIS had been showing up and taking over checkpoints that hadn't been manned before. And he said he had angered some of the rebels, but he didn't know which ones he was angry with by watching a hospital in Aleppo that had been bombed, and he was worried about this."