Did Israel Offer ISIS $10 Million to Free Steven

Sotloff?
Did Israel Offer ISIS $10 Million to Free Steven Sotloff?
Set Up and Sold Out on the Kilis-Aleppo Highway
by Franklin Lamb, Ein el Helwe Palestinian
camp, Lebanon
ednesday, September !rd, "#$%
[Editor's note: There was
something very fishy right off the
bat with this guy. Someone with
his profile as an IDF veteran
many of whom get Intel training
after leaving the servi!e"
espe!ially formerIDF with #S
passports would have to be nuts
to go into $ihad territory.
The %ossad would typi!ally be
using throwaway lo!al agents to
pi!& up Intel" and not use
someone so obvious.
'T first bro&e the story of Sotloff
not being (uite an )meri!an" despite his passport. )nd *ita +at,
and her Site Intel platform" famous for ma&ing all the phony
Rita Katzof bin Laden Studios
-sama bin .aden videos and later tapes for the /I) in Israel
that was another flagrant %ossad !onne!tion ... and you would
thin& they !ould have found someone else to release the tape.
0hy would ISIS &ill a %ossad agent" hardly under!over" and then
have a 123 million ransom story appear so soon after4 0e have
substantiated that Israel has supported the ISIS $ihadis fighting
)ssad" and right now ISIS is in the driver's seat there. 0ith the
long re!ord of the *ita +at, phony psyops" the first thing to
suspe!t is that we have a theatri!al &illing here. 5es fol&s" they
&now how to do these things very well" a longused ta!ti! when
they want it.
)nd then of !ourse we see a 67hour new antiterror propaganda
program rolled out" whi!h pi!&ed up steam in the se!ond day and
then the third with big media !overage" 8ust li&e all the other
or!hestrated events rolled out.
The dead and wounded of 9a,a are pushed off the news" as are
the Ira(is" ...and then -bama's most aggressive response seems
to appear when we have a dead $ew... more than we have seen for
the 2:3"333 dead Syrians. I find that to be what I !all !onvenient
;situational ethi!s;...how about you4 ...$im 0. Dean <
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- First published September #!, "#$% -
'etails are not yet (ully known to this
obser)er but reliable sour*es who do know
and monitor 'aash +,S- report that ,S,S
re.e*ted (ranti* /ossad e((orts to buy the
release o( Ameri*an .ournalist Ste)en 0oel
Sotlo((1
2his mu*h is *redited with a (air amount o(
*ertainty1 On 34$4$% Ste)en Sotlo((, born and
raised in Florida, *he*ked into 5oom !#! o(
the Hotel ,stanbul in the small border town o(
Kilis in southern 2urkey1
2hree days later on 34%4$%, shortly a(ter
*he*king out o( the hotel and heading to the
border to take the Kilis-Aleppo highway south
in Syria, /r1 Sotlo(( and his 6(i7er8 were
abdu*ted at a *he*k point manned by unknown .ihadists1
An a*9uaintan*e, who met Ste)en Sotlo(( in Kilis, reported that shortly be(ore /r1
Sotlo(( le(t (or Syria:
O)er beers at Kilis;s only bar, Sotlo(( told me he was si*k o( being beaten up, and
The *ita +at, tie in was a dead giveaway
shot at, and a**used o( being an ,sraeli spy1 0ust the day be(ore, 2urkish poli*e had hit
and pepper-sprayed him (or taking pi*tures at a protest in a nearby *ity1 He told me he
wanted to 9uit reporting (or a little while, at least on *on(li*t in the /iddle <ast, and
maybe apply to graduate s*hool ba*k home in Florida1 =ut (irst he wanted one last
Syria run1 He said he was *hasing a good story8
,n(ormed sour*es report that his >(i7er; set the Ameri*an .ournalist up and sold him (or
*ash to rebels (ighting the Assad regime1 2he >(i7er; is also a**used o(, nearly nine
months later, stealing the /ossad >down payment; *ash entrusted to him (or deli)ery to
whi*he)er .ihadists were holding /r1 Sotlo((1
)t the same time the #S =ionist lobby has been intensively
lobbying the -bama administration to bomb ISIS for!es in Ira(
and Syria" Israeli agents were reportedly tal&ing with ISIS about
obtaining %r. Sotloff>s freedom and offering ten million dollars to
Daash as part of a release deal.
/r1 Sotlo((;s >(i7er; has sin*e disappeared (rom publi*
)iew o)er the last %3 hours and is no doubt himsel( being
hunted and marked (or death as ,sraeli and perhaps
Ameri*an agents tra*king him1
2his is not the (irst +nor will it likely be the last time- this
has happened with esterners or others seeking to
report on e)ents or simply showing up in an e7*iting
pla*e to bear witness or do good1
=ut new arri)als around here are o(ten unaware that the
>war e*onomy; along the 2urkish-Syria-,ra9 border, these
days means that .ust about anything or anyone is up (or
sale at the right pri*e and there is plenty o( buyer;s *ash
a)ailable whi*h attra*ti)ely pushes up pro(its1
<)en sworn .ihadists enemies regularly do business
through agents, and sometimes dire*tly, with *riminal
gangs and others in *ommodities (rom oil, arms,
*ounter(eit US ? $## bills, an array o( drugs, women,
*hildren, would-be .ihadists and .ust about e)ery other
>*ommodity1; 2his while simultaneously they (ight ea*h
other nearby and pledge de)otion to Allah and loyalty to
>humanity18
/r1 Sotlo(( who was in Libya during 0une o( "#$$ and *o)ered parts o( the Libyan *i)il
war (rom =engha@i and /israta in eastern Libya was a**used at the time by the
Aadha(i regime o( being a /ossad agent1 ,S,S also reportedly had *ome to belie)e he
was an ,sraeli agent based on in(ormation (rom deri)ed (rom prisoners during
interrogations, whi*h likely in*luded torture1
Bet, being a**used o( working (or a (oreign go)ernment these days in this region is not
un*ommon1 2his obser)er has been a**used o( being a C,A agent while at the same
time being o( being a supporter o( the Lebanese national 5esistan*e led by He@bollah1
/any around these parts simply do not understand why someone (rom a >sa(e and
?ot a low profile guy@mu!h
safer to stay on the Tur&ish side
to pi!& up stories.
prosperous *ountry; would be o)er here i( he was not being paid by some
go)ernment;s se*urity ser)i*es1
ith respe*t to the alleged /ossad o((er, ,S,S reportedly balked at the proposal (or
se)eral reasons, in*luding the one stated publi*ly about the beheadings o( both /r1
Foley and /r1 Sotlo((: the US bombings o( ,S,S (ighters in ,ra91 An additional reason,
reported to this obser)er, was the most re*ent ,sraeli aggression against Aa@a1
Think of this execution as also a gesture to the Palestinian Gaza
Resistance. As the Zionists do not put any value on other than
Jewish lives let the taste !ustice. "o Jew# $hristian or %usli
who works for %ossad or who works to confiscate one inch of Ara&
land will &e treated with respect. They will taste Allah's
punishent.(
as the (a*t that /r1 Sotlo(( was 0ewish and had written (or the Jerusalem Post a
(a*tor in his sa)age murderD Eossibly1 ,n today;s /iddle <ast line-up a person;s
religion un(ortunately is sometimes o( paramount importan*e in determining i( one
li)es or dies1
=y all a**ounts Ste)en Sotlo(( was a good man and no probati)e e)iden*e has
sur(a*ed that the Ameri*an was anything other than what he appeared to be1 Caught
up in /iddle <aster politi*s (or whi*h (ew are prepared and (ewer these days should
(eel *on(ident about their personal se*urity1
Franklin Lamb is a visiting Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law,
Damascus University an volunteers with the !abra"!hatila !cholarship Program
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