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Steven Sotloff Was Sold to ISIS by 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels
« on: September 09, 2014, 03:44:58 pm »
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184912#.VA8YVuDD9D8

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Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was kidnapped and sold to the radical Islamic State terrorist group, or ISIS, by one of the "moderate" rebel groups to whom the US government has considered offering support, according to his family's spokesman.

Barak Barfi told CNN that Sotloff - who was Jewish and a joint US-Israeli citizen - was sold for a sum of money in the tens of thousands of dollars at the Syrian border. He said credible "sources on the ground" had provided the dramatic and tragic details of the abduction.

"For the first time, we can say Steven was sold at the border," Barfi said.

He described for the first time how Sotloff was set up to be kidnapped, as "activists" spread false rumors that he had participated in the bombing of a hospital - rumors which set him up to be kidnapped by a rebel group, and ultimately executed by IS.

"Steven's name was on a list that he had been responsible for the bombing of a hospital. This was false, activists spread his name around.

"Somebody at the border crossing made a phone call to ISIS and they set up a fake checkpoint with many people and Steven and his people that he went in with could not escape," he said.