[VOA] He calls himself Abdulla the Caucasian. With fair skin, red hair, a long beard and gold-toothed smile, Abdulla speaks Azerbaijani during the half-hour long Daesh propaganda video. His monologue has been translated into Russian, with subtitles running across the screen. He promises hell on Earth to Azerbaijan's government and its Muslim leaders who oppose Daesh.The video is different from those usually produced by Daesh's Russian-language propaganda unit. Instead of being a long speech by a well-known figure, or presentations by a group of notable jihadis, this one gives an individual narrative with an accompanying visual presentation.
In scene after scene, the camera follows him as he shoots at enemy positions using various automatic weapons; he rides a motorcycle through battle-ravaged neighborhoods, passing the unburied bodies of Daesh victims; he checks the ID's of the freshly-killed infidels brought to him by his subordinates; he pays a courtesy visit to an elderly local woman; he steps on the petrified skull of a defeated enemy, while promising a place in paradise to those who join Daesh. The video delivers a simple message: Back home I was a nobody; here I am a warlord.
It has become one of the most popular propaganda videos ever produced by Daesh's Russian-language unit. It is worth noting that Vadim Osmanov, one of the bombers at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, was a Lezgin – the same Sunni ethnic group to which Abdulla the Caucasian belongs.