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Obama says beheading videos won\\\'t intimidate US

Wednesday, 3 September 2014


President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States will not be intimidated by Islamic State militants after the beheading of a second American journalist and will build a coalition to ‘degrade and destroy’ 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's going to take time for us to be able to roll them back,’ the president said at a news conference during a visit to Europe. The president's comments came after he said the United States had verified the authenticity of a video released Tuesday showing the beheading of freelance reporter Steven Sotloff, two weeks after journalist James Foley was similarly killed. Obama vowed the US would not forget the ‘terrible crime against these two fine young men,’ according to AP.