ISIS Extremists, Nine-Year-Old Girl Shoots Instructor & Celebrity Lawsuits

In today’s episode of LipTV’s Crime Time, Allison Hope Weiner sits down with retired FBI agent Jim Clemente to discuss the on-camera beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff at the hands of the brutal Islamist group ISIS.

The existence of the latest video of Sotloff has been confirmed by the U.S. State Department and is in the process of being authenticated. Sotloff was a 31-year-old freelance journalist who had written for ‘Time’ magazine and was taken captive shortly after entering Syria in 2013. His family had made a plea for his life last week.

“I’m back Obama and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic state,” a man is heard saying on the tape. The terrorist also cites airstrikes against the group in Iraq as a reason for the beheading and warns, “Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the next of your people.”

“They are definitely terror videos – they’re meant to terrorize the U.S.,” according to Clemente, who also is a current advisor, writer and producer for the TV series ‘Criminal Minds.’

“They’re also meant to make the U.S. seem vulnerable and weak,” he said. “In fact, they do the exact opposite.“

He explains how the killers use victimology in the videos by killing innocent individuals since the victim in the footage is unarmed, not a threat and not a combatant, but somebody who’s there simply to document events going on.

“What they’re trying to do is seem greater than they are. And in fact it’s failing, because they are showing themselves as weak, and they’re showing themselves as sadistic.”

Clemente added: “The best thing we can possibly do is ignore what they’re putting out. I don’t watch these videos, I think it’s outrageous for people to actually watch YouTube videos of people being executed, it’s wrong in every sense.”

Allison then jumps topics to get Clemente’s reaction to the nine-year-old Arizona girl who ended up shooting and killing her firearms instructor at a shooting range and discusses whether this should change the ability of young people to shoot weapons.

The girl was firing a fully automatic Uzi when she accidentally shot her 39-year-old instructor, who was standing next to her at the range in White Hills, Arizona.

“Training children how to use firearms is a very dangerous thing to begin with. But some people believe – like my brother – that by training them they won’t play with them. “

But Clemente says he doesn’t agree with this practice, which can become a very dangerous situation to everyone involved.

“Most adults have trouble controlling a fully automatic machine gun. When you’re talking about a semi-automatic or fully automatic weapon, it’s a machine of war. And it’s meant to kill multiple people in a very short period of time.”

Clemente said that in his opinion, the negligence of the shooting falls on the girl’s parents and the gun range company for allowing a child that young to fire a semi-automatic or fully automatic weapon.

Watch the video to also hear Allison and her guest discuss new sexual allegations against ‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer, as well as the $10 million lawsuit by Jessie Nizewitz, a contestant on VH1’s sexy reality show ‘Dating Naked’ who claims that her private parts were at times exposed on camera in violation of a contractual agreement.