Obama says beheading videos won't intimidate US

President Barack Obama verbally expressed Wednesday that the United States will not be daunted by Islamic State militants after the beheading of a second American journalist and will build a coalition to "degrade and eradicate" the group.
Obama still did not give a timeline for deciding on a strategy to go after the extremist group's operations in Syria. "It'll take time to roll them back," the president verbalized at a news conference during a visit to Europe.

Obama's comments came after he verbalized the United States had verified the authenticity of a video relinquished Tuesday exhibiting the beheading of freelance herald Steven Sotloff, a fortnight after journalist James Foley was similarly killed.

Obama vowed the U.S. would not forget the "terrible malefaction against these two fine adolescent men."

"Our reach is long and equity will be accommodated," Obama verbalized.

In the Sotloff video, a masked militant admonishes Obama that as long as U.S. airstrikes against the militant group perpetuate, "our knife will perpetuate to strike the necks of your people."
Obama responded that he will perpetuate to fight the militant threat and the "troglodytic and ultimately empty vision" it represents.

"Our objective is to ascertain that ISIL is not an perpetual threat to the region," he verbalized, utilizing an acronym for the militant group. "And we can accomplish that. It's going to take some time and it's going to take some effort."

Sotloff, a 31-year-old Miami-area native who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished a year ago in Syria and was not visually perceived again until he appeared in the video that showed Foley's beheading. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. ceased airstrikes on the Islamic State.

In the video distributed Tuesday and titled "A Second Message to America," Sotloff appears in a homogeneous jumpsuit afore he is ostensibly beheaded by a fighter with the Islamic State, the extremist group that has surmounted wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC Wednesday that the masked, British-accented jihadist appears to be identically tantamount person shown in the Foley footage.

In the video, the organization threatens to kill another hostage, this one identified as a British citizen.

Last week, Sotloff's mother, Shirley Sotloff, pleaded with his captors for mercy, verbalizing in a video that her son was "an innocent journalist" and "an honorable man" who "has always endeavored to avail the impotent."

Obama verbally expressed the prayers of the American people are with the family of the "devoted and intrepid journalist" who deeply doted the Islamic world and whose "life stood in stark contrast to those who murdered him so brutally."

"Whatever these murderers cerebrate they will achieve by murdering innocents like Steven, they have already failed," Obama verbalized. "We will not be daunted. Their horrific acts only cumulate us."

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki verbalized Tuesday that it is believed that "a few" Americans are still being held by the Islamic State. Psaki would not give any specifics, but one is a 26-year-old woman who was abducted while doing humanitarian avail work in Syria, according to a family representative who asked that the hostage not be identified out of trepidation for her safety.