Steven Sotloff
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Steven Joel Sotloff was an American-Israeli journalist. In August 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held captive by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. On September 2, 2014,
Undated photo of Sotloff
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Iraqi militant leader and former teacher who was the founder and first leader of the Islamic State,
Steven Sotloff
…The petition attracted thousands of signatures within days. On August 27, 2014, Sotloff's mother released a short video asking Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to release her son. Fellow journalists, including Sotloff's friend Oren Kessler, worked intensively for his release. On September 2, 2014, the SITE…
Mugshot of al-Baghdadi at Camp Bucca in 2004
Al-Baghdadi as a teenager