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2014-09-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Sotloff Family Spokesman: Syria's 'So-Called Moderate Rebels' Sold Sotloff to ISIS

[Daily Caller] A spokesman for the family of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff claimed Monday night that Sotloff was sold to the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by Syria's 'so-called moderate rebels.'

Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi, a foreign policy research fellow at the New American Foundation, made the startling claim in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"We believe that these so-called moderate rebels that people want our administration to support, one of them sold him probably for something between $25,000 and $50,000 to ISIS and that was the reason he was captured," Barfi said. (RELATED: Expert Who Traveled With Syrian Rebels Says So-Called 'Moderates' Are Muslim Brotherhood-Style Islamists)

To be fair, the Ikhwan agree completely as to goals. They just disagree about methods... and who will be in charge afterward.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-09 00:10|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 That elusive "moderate" Muslim hard at work.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-09 07:37|| 2014-09-09 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 many Islamisc groups have spokespeople who are refined and seem moderate to any Americans who interview them but are actually led by less refined and non moderate types

this techniques has been used for decades now in the mideast and it continues to effectively food journalists and politicians even though anyone with the brains that God gave goats should have seen through it by now

Posted by lord garth 2014-09-09 08:05|| 2014-09-09 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 L' Garth, kind of like the "fellow traveler" concept of the left and Communism?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-09 08:45|| 2014-09-09 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 There is no such thing as a "Moderate" Islamist.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-09-09 09:40|| 2014-09-09 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The Bammer is officially denying the Sotloff sale.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-09 22:40|| 2014-09-09 22:40|| Front Page Top

#6 The Bammer is officially denying the Sotloff sale.

According to Ynet, he hasn't yet read about it yet in the Times, JosephM:

The United States has no information indicating beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was "sold" to Islamic State militants by moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

"Based on the information that has been provided to me, I don't believe that is accurate," Earnest told a news briefing.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-09 23:21|| 2014-09-09 23:21|| Front Page Top

#7 According to Ynet, he hasn't yet read about it yet in the Times,

That is both funny and sad at the same time.

Posted by SteveS 2014-09-09 23:28|| 2014-09-09 23:28|| Front Page Top

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