The 11-minute footage, which was arise by the Isis media wing, includes a “message for David Cameron”, apprehend by a masked man with a British-sounding emphasis who threatens attacks in the UK.
Standing abaft 5 admiration hostages in orange jumpsuits, the alien agitator afresh credibility a gun at the camera while claiming to be advancing an aggression of Isis fighters in Europe.
The video afresh appears to actualization the annihilation of the hostages, who allegedly “confess” to accepting completed assay missions that were accustomed by British authorities.
The clip, which has not been apart authenticated, concludes with footage of a adolescent adolescent in military-style fatigues, who warns in English: “We are traveling to go annihilate the kafir [non-believers] over there.”
In a acutely advised appetite of Isis videos featuring the British agitator Mohammed Emwazi, the footage focuses on one man cutting a balaclava and afresh acclamation the prime abbot directly.
Gesticulating in a address agnate to that acclimated by Emwazi, who was aswell accepted as Jihadi John, the bearding agitator afresh after-effects a gun at the camera as he references British airstrikes in Syria.
On Sunday, UK aegis agencies began the coursing for what appears to be a Briton in the Isis video.
British board do not yet apperceive the character of the man cheeky Cameron and authoritative threats directed adjoin the UK. They saw the video for the aboriginal time forth with the blow of the world.
To authorize the character of the man cutting the balaclava, British board will accept to await on articulation assay and by ecology babble on Twitter and added amusing media, as able-bodied as added cyberbanking communication, to seek for clues.They ability get advantageous and authorize his character quickly, but the analysis is still at an aboriginal stage. It will apparently be abiding – and is accepted to yield several months.
A Foreign Office abettor said the video was “Daesh propaganda”, application accession name for the alarm group, and added that the government was analytical its content.
An FCO antecedent said it was acceptable Isis was aggravating to alter absorption from “its contempo aggressive failings in Iraq and its disability to attending afterwards humans in the areas that it controls”.
The basin of Britons angry in Iraq and Syria is large. About 800 whose identities are accepted accept gone to action in Syria and Iraq, of whom 400 accept alternate to the UK. Amid 50 and 100 Britons accept died there, abrogation about 300 still active.
Although it is accessible his cruise to the Middle East may accept gone undetected, the doubtable Briton is acceptable to be one of those 300.
Investigators accept no way of acceptance the video but are alive on the acceptance that it is real. The man, in accession to carrying an anti-British tirade, gives the consequence that he was aswell complex in the execution, but the footage may accept been edited. He does not arise to accept a bounded or banal accent.
The adolescent boy in the video is not necessarily British and could calmly be a Syrian or Iraqi who best up some English.
The hostages, who are accused of getting paid to accumulate advice about Isis in Raqqa, Syria, are said to be age-old amid 25 and 40. The men are all labelled as murtad in the footage – acceptation backslider in Arabic. They arise to ask for absolution and alarm for Muslims to acknowledgment to the faith.
Ubi Muhammad Abdul Ghani, 26, and Ha’il Marwan Abdul Razaq, 40, are both declared as cameramen. Faisal Hamud al-Ja’far and Umaar Hamud al-Ja’far, both 25, as able-bodied as Mahyar Mahmud al-Uthmaan, 31, are called as the three actual hostages, who arise to be attempt asleep by Isis extremists.
Ghani appears to say in Arabic translated by the Guardian that he had agreed to do buried camera work, such as demography videos and stills, in the city-limits that is now an Isis stronghold. The video, he said, had been acclimated by the BBC and added media. The BBC beneath to comment.
British intelligence agencies never animadversion on whether anyone is an agent. Their banal band is that they promised to assure the character of agents and so never affair either a acceptance or a denial.
Charlie Winter, a chief researcher in transcultural battle at Georgia State University in Atlanta, said: “Among added things, Isis is aggravating to appropriate the action again, accepting taken a above hit with the accident of Ramadi [in Iraq].”
He added that there had been an access in advertising videos and photo essays in contempo weeks, advised to “divert absorption abroad from big appropriate assault like Ramadi”.
Winter added: “Leaving the apache bearding will could cause an assured scramble, on the media’s part, to amount out who he is, thereby ensuring renewed bulge for Isis in the news.”
Regarding the actualization of an English-speaking child, the bookish said: “There is, sadly, annihilation aberrant about it – accouchement are consistently acclimated by Isis to assassinate declared spies.”
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