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| Suspected Western Jihadists in 'Evil' IS Beheading Video |
| 2014-11-18 |
| [AnNahar] Authorities were on Monday investigating the involvement of several suspected Western jihadists in the brutal video by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group claiming the beheading of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig. The killing of Kassig and the simultaneous beheadings of at least 18 Syrian military personnel in the video sparked global horror, with President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... calling it "an act of pure evil". It was the latest in a series of atrocities by IS, a Sunni Moslem bad boy group that has seized control of large parts of Iraq and Syria. The video showed the Syrian men each kneeling on the ground before a separate executioner, whose faces were uncovered. Among the forces of Evil shown beheading the Syrian servicemen were some known imported muscle, including at least one Frenchie and possibly a Briton, an Australian and a Dane. French authorities identified at least one of the executioners as believed to be Maxime Hauchard, born in 1992 in northern La Belle France and who left for Syria in August last year. "The video was analyzed by our intelligence services," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, adding there was a "strong possibility that a French citizen was directly involved in these despicable crimes." An intelligence source said it was also being verified whether a second French citizen was among the jihadists seen in the video. Thousands of imported muscle have flocked to join IS in Iraq and Syria and experts say they are often among the most violent and brutal of the jihadists. A British-accented jihadist has been at the center of previous IS beheading videos and appeared again in Sunday's recording claiming Kassig's killing. Another British jihadist fighting with IS seemed to have appeared as an executioner in the video, his father said. "I cannot be certain but it looks like my son," the father of Nasser Muthana, a 20-year-old prospective medical student from Cardiff in Wales, told Britannia's Daily Mail newspaper. "He must fear Allah now for killing people. How can he expect to face Allah if he is killing human beings?" added the father, Ahmed Muthana. Nasser Muthana appeared in an IS recruitment video in June and also boasted about being a "soldier" of the organization on Twitter, according to British media reports. His 17-year-old brother is also reported to have joined him in Syria. Kassig, who took the name Abdul-Rahman after converting to Islam, was captured last year and was the fifth Western hostage beheaded by IS after two US news hounds and two British aid workers. Sunday's video was substantially different from previous IS recordings of beheadings. Kassig was not shown alive in the footage, and no direct threats were made against other Western hostages. The video came as IS suffered battleground setbacks in Iraq backed by U.S.-led air strikes, with government forces Saturday breaking the jihadists' months-long siege of the country's largest oil refinery. |
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