Sotloff Family Spokesman Reveals So-Called “Moderate” Armed Groups in Syria Sold Sotloff to ISISL

WASHINGTON- In new evidence proving the close connection between the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorist organization in Syria and other terrorist groups, which Washington likes to name “moderate armed groups”, the spokesman for the family of murdered US journalist Steven Sotloff said Monday night that Sotloff was sold to the ISIL by the so-called “moderate” armed groups.

Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi, a foreign policy research fellow at the New American Foundation, made the statement 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.  

Asked how he knows this, Barfi referred to sources both he and the Sotloff family have “on the ground.”

Earlier this month, the ISIL adopted in a video posted on the internet the beheading of the US journalist.

The administration of the US President Barack Obama has dedicated millions of dollars to provide training to what it calls “moderate armed groups”. It blatantly continues to ignore the fact that it is the first to be blamed for the spread of terrorism in Syria through its financial, political and military support to the armed terrorist groups in Syria along with countries of the European Union and regional states including Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Hamda Mustafa