Sotloff Family Criticizes US For Ineptitude During Crisis [View all]
A family spokesperson said that this Administration did not treat the Sotloff family with the respect and the opportunities they should have been given.
By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Published: September 9th, 2014
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Sotloff family spokesperson Barak Barfi revealed that American freelance photographer Steven Joel Sotloff was captured as he entered Syria and then sold to ISIS by ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels.
According to Cooper’s blog, Barfi, who is a research fellow at the left-leaning New America Foundation, and Sotloff were childhood friends.
The price tag paid by ISIS for Sotloff, according to Barfi, was “something between $25,000 and $50,000.”
“Somebody at the border crossing made a phone call. Barfi said Steven’s “name was on a list, people had said he was responsible for the bombing of a hospital, this was false, activists spread his name around,” and he was captured just after entering Syria.
While the news that Sotloff had been captured and then sold by moderates to ISIS was not known before, neither was the tension between the Sotloff family and the administration.
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