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Slain journalist's Western Pa. friend scrambled to save his life by hiding Jewish, Israeli links
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | September 6 | Jason Cato

Posted on 09/06/2014 8:50:39 AM PDT by PghBaldy

... Sotloff's death by videotaped beheading, made public on Tuesday, ended a frantic two-week campaign by Roman and a network of people scouring the Internet and scrubbing references to Sotloff's being a Jew, having studied in Israel or becoming an Israeli citizen, a fact few knew.

“Gregg and his team played a crucial role once Steve appeared in the Jim Foley video,” said a Sotloff family representative, who asked not to be named...

(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; islam; sotloff; stevensotloff
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I feel awful for all concerned in this... I don't understand it at all. What will it take for people, Jews and Americans in particular, to see what islam is about?
1 posted on 09/06/2014 8:50:40 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

Wish had the right and proper words for these efforts by those involved. Can only type ... Thank You, Greg and your team’s Efforts.


2 posted on 09/06/2014 8:57:16 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: PghBaldy
for Jews to remain so willing to be victims is inconcievable....

why would any Jew be so brazen, or so stupid, or so naieve as to go wandering into fanatical muslim areas....

3 posted on 09/06/2014 8:58:17 AM PDT by cherry
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To: PghBaldy

Hopefully his friend’s efforts saved him from extra torture because he was a Jew.


4 posted on 09/06/2014 8:58:43 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: no-to-illegals

It does seem like he had very loving friends and family. Males it all the worse. I wish we just started bombing and didn’t stop till they cried “Uncle!” I don’t know if obama realizes how much true Americans care about each other.


5 posted on 09/06/2014 9:00:33 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy
I don’t know if obama realizes how much true Americans care about each other.

Is difficult when dealing with the devil to stare at the unknown and having to make the decision of does one stand there or does one walk away slow if allowed.

7 posted on 09/06/2014 9:05:55 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: cherry
I don't mean to belittle the horrible death of this man....

I just want people to start understanding that we are dealing with absolute EVIL and we can't think our sweet, good intentions are ever going to be appreciated....

we need to develop a warriors attitude towards these animals...

8 posted on 09/06/2014 9:06:18 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

If the final statements made by the journalist victims of ISIS are to be believed, they harbored sympathies to Islam (radical Islam is superfluous). A terrible irony.


9 posted on 09/06/2014 9:10:58 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: cherry

While am agreeing each has to remember the Gates of Hell and the World are Cruel and Cold ... Yes, Cherry, we have crossed the river and after we crossed the river the enemies on the hill looked down upon us and said, Distract them and so they (our enemies) did. Uncharted territory and those in power have the rod with which America is beaten with every day. America, as all know, bares the bruises. Am starting personally to lean beyond voting but staring at the Gates of Hell, on that hill, does give one and me pause.


10 posted on 09/06/2014 9:15:45 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: PghBaldy

my apology am off topic with typed words ...


11 posted on 09/06/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: PghBaldy

Steven Sotloff Story About Praying, Fasting on Yom Kippur is fake BS - Totally Debunked

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/74564/steven-sotloff-about-praying-fasting-on-yom-kippur-is-fake-bs/


12 posted on 09/06/2014 9:19:52 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: PghBaldy

It’s painfully obvious now that if we want our family and friends back from these savages we are going to have to go get them ourselves because our government has no interest in doing so. Seven years ago both would have been saved by SOFs


13 posted on 09/06/2014 9:25:28 AM PDT by Ajnin (Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.)
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To: PghBaldy

Something Right There In Front Of Them!!!!!!!!!!!!!


14 posted on 09/06/2014 9:27:59 AM PDT by bandleader
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This has got to be the most brazen example of victim blaming I have ever seen. He was a journalist and was kidnapped from Syria while on an assignment. Journalists often go into unstable areas or outright was zones and are aware of the risk. But I doubt risk of being abducted by Islamist radicals is high up on that risk list.


15 posted on 09/06/2014 9:27:59 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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You can bet Mad Mo’s boys have been thinking every angle.

Wifey's from Minnesota, and was musing the other day that if she were in Da Cities, she probably would avoid the Mall of America next Thursday....

16 posted on 09/06/2014 9:29:23 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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To: PghBaldy

Being an Islamist is no different than being a Nazi.
Both require totalitarian obedience to their cause.


17 posted on 09/06/2014 9:29:33 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Without a gun, I cannot protect myself, my family or my country.)
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To: cherry
Why would a Christian be so brazen to go into Muslim area..the savages will kill either..

But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father IN heaven.

18 posted on 09/06/2014 9:31:14 AM PDT by PLD
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His Twitter feed, like the previous murdered American, says it all. They supported some of the muslims fighting over there, and supported Obama. It must seem bewildering to the friends and family.


19 posted on 09/06/2014 9:31:57 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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