ISIS releases video of ‘Paris attackers’
The footage is said to end with the message “whoever stands in the ranks of Kufr will be a target for our swords and will fall in humiliation” superimposed over an image of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Hadfi, at 20 the youngest Paris attacker, is seen beheading a man. Hadfi was one of three who attacked the Stade de France and was believed to have fought with Islamic State in Syria.
It comes just hours after a movie-style poster of the Paris attackers was released by Al-Hayat, ISIS’ propaganda arm.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group released a video Sunday purporting to show nine extremists behind the November Paris attacks that killed 130 people, in which they threaten “coalition” countries including Britain.
Several of the nine are shown beheading hostages, a tactic often used by IS.
Abaaoud, who was widely thought to have been in Syria fighting with IS forces in the past, was killed in a shootout with French police days after the bloodiest attacks to hit Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004. In the January 2015 attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine (claimed by adherents of al-Qaeda) and on a kosher supermarket (claimed by a man acting in the name of the Islamic State) some analysts argued that if those groups had sent the attackers the men would have made videos in the groups’ respective territories.
The twisted footage shows each of Abbaoud’s henchmen committing a brutal execution, according to Site – a group that monitors jihadi activity in the Middle East.
The video, which is said to have been filmed in the ISIS stronghold Raqqa in Syria, is yet to have been verified by French authorities.
There was no immediate comment from the Prime Minister’s office.
It goes on to report an audio message from the suspected ringleader of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Cruickshank reported past year that intelligence obtained by European security agencies indicated ISIS was aiming to attack the United Kingdom in a follow-up to its Paris operation, citing a senior counterterrorism official. Two more suspects remain on the run.