Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the Sotloff family, said that the family had seen the video but that authorities have not established its authenticity. The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time, Barfi said. Sotloff, 31, who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen again until he appeared in a video released online last month that showed Foleys beheading. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq. In the video distributed Tuesday and titled A Second Message to America, Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is apparently beheaded by a fighter with the Islamic State, the extremist group that has claimed wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate. In the video, the organization threatens to kill another hostage, this one identified as a British citizen. The SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, first reported about the videos existence. Unlike the footage of Foleys beheading, which was widely shared on Twitter accounts affiliated with the Islamic State group, the video purporting to show Sotloffs killing was not immediately posted online, though several jihadi websites told users to expect it Tuesday. - See more at: northjersey/news/video-purports-to-show-beheading-of-us-journalist-steven-sotloff-1.1079555?page=all#sthash.tobkYGJH.dpuf
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