More ISIS Threats Against Russian Federation
It added: “The kafir throats will tremble from the knives”. “Hellfire awaits you. Europe is shaking, Russian Federation is dying”. The video also shows scenes of beheadings and gunshot executions.
As of Thursday afternoon, Kurdish military officials said they had captured three villages outside the town and seized portions of Highway 47, cutting off a major supply route between Isis’s strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria.
While the loss of a passenger airliner was shocking enough, the prospect of attacks inside Russian territory by ISIS infiltrators threatens to be a game-changer for Russian security, threatening to make Russia’s involvement in the Syrian war hugely controversial, whereas it was launched with little public debate and a suggestion that it would be short and limited.
The group said it plans to take control of Russian lands and enslave the women and children.
The chilling video that is already making a lot of headlines at various news agencies is the latest piece of propaganda released by the Jihadist group’s Al Hayat media center.
United States and UK intelligence sources already believe ISIS did bomb the Metrojet plane bound for Russian Federation which blew up in mid-air over Egypt’s Sinai desert a couple of weeks ago.
Yesterday, ISIS again claimed to have bombed the jet, saying in an online statement: “Prove that we didn’t bring it down, and how it came down”.
Regardless, the recent video is bound to present a lot of domestic problems, given that Russian Federation has always struggled to maintain peace in Muslim majority areas such as Chechnya, Dagestan and Kazan.
Ground crew members check an air-to-air missile under the wing of a Russian Su-30 fighter at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday, October 22, 2015.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that about 5 000 to 7 000 people from former Soviet nations were fighting for Islamic State in the Middle East.
ISIS has a large contingent of foreign fighters from the northern Caucasus regions that fall under Russia’s jurisdiction.