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| New ISIS Video Uses Brit Prisoner As Mouthpiece | |
| 2014-09-19 | |
[Ynet] Report claims Islamic State released a new video in which captured journalist John Cantlie promises to expose the 'truth behind Islamic State'
Cantlie, a former war photographer and report for a number of UK publications, addresses the camera from behind a table in a dark room. In the video, Cantlie says he was "abandoned" by the UK government and claims he will seek to counter the "manipulated truths" told by world media against the Islamic State in a number of videos. "I know what you're thinking. You're thinking 'he's only doing this because he's a prisoner -- he's got a gun at his head and he's being forced to do this," Cantlie says. "Well, I am a prisoner -- that I cannot deny -- but seeing as I've been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of the Islamic State, I have nothing to lose." "Over the next few programs, I am going to show you the truth as the Western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State," he concludes. In the new video, titled "Lend Me Your Ears, Messages from the British Detainee John Cantlie," the man identified as Cantlie says he was captured by the Islamic State after arriving in Syria in November 2012. He says he worked for newspapers and magazines in Britannia including the Sunday Times, the Sun and the Sunday Telegraph. "After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, why is it that our governments appear so keen to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict?" the man says in the video. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 You are already dead, pal, try for some dignity because you have nothing more to lose. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-09-19 15:57 |
| #8 *The first best chance to counter the ISJV media blitz was when they were trolling World Cup coverage. Our (USA) public digest media was completely focused on getting our VIPs onto the soccer team's coattails. Meanwhile, the ISJV twits were directing potential recruits to some if not good productions, effective ads and why we fights. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-19 12:27 |
| #7 There is. Hashtags and Kerry's World of Islam lectures. France in CAR - other than some neat video of them making an air base from scratch I didn't come across anything other than blips. I kind of remember much moaning about the lack of info from the typicals, which I took as a good sign. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-19 12:19 |
| #6 Say fok'n nothing ! Parachute in [similar to the French in Zaire years and years ago, and elsewhere more recently], kill as many as can be seen. Keep international media and press at bay. Airlift or exfiltrate via Unimog, or leather Cadillacs. Rearm/refit, steak and beer, tell jump stories, and move on to the next insertion. Say fok'n nothing ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-19 12:10 |
| #5 There should be an effort in the West to counter this kind of propaganda. Better yet, we should be killing these cowardly boneheads who love death so much. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-19 11:52 |
| #4 Lend Me Your Ears Clever in a Weird Al sense. Touches on something rattling about in me: prisoners are already dead, other than the occasional VIP auction/execution block. We should be steeling ourselves for such propaganda. And as the natural order of things, such as Madonna to Spears to Cyrus, they (being all who jocky for the blue chip jihadi all stars) will try to out-do each other. If there is a constant for all peoples through all history, it is what we would call brutality. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-19 11:29 |
| #3 Clever, g(r)rom. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-09-19 09:51 |
| #2 A talking head? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-19 07:57 |
| #1 Lend Me your ears is somehow so wrong. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-09-19 07:51 |