David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
on Monday dismissed as "desperate stuff" a new 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....
that seemed to again put a Briton at the forefront of the hard boy group's propaganda efforts.
The video, which depicts the execution-style killing of five men who the group claims were spying for Britannia, features a masked man with a distinct British accent who wields a pistol as he threatens to "invade" the United Kingdom and implement Islamic law.
With its grisly content and blood-curdling message, the clip appears to self-consciously emulate slickly produced videos in which a British citizen who came to be known as Jihadi John was shown killing American, British, Japanese and Syrian hostages.
But the masked executioner in the new video does not appear to be the same as the one in the video series released in late 2014 and early 2015, adding to the evidence that Jihadi John was killed in a U.S. drone strike on the Syrian city of Raqqa in November.
U.S. military officials have said that they are "reasonably certain" that the strike killed Mohammed Emwazi, the 27-year-old Londoner who was revealed to be Jihadi John by The Washington Post.
The release of the new video Sunday spawned a round of speculation about the identity of a man the British media immediately dubbed the "New Jihadi John."