Paris attackers were versed in atrocity, IS video shows

A new Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda video shows several of the Paris attackers taking military training in Syria before carrying out the bloody assaults in the French capital that claimed 130 lives last November.

The 17-minute video, dubbed “Paris Has Collapsed”, features the final words of the killers behind the Paris attacks last November and shows footage of the Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square as well as British Prime David Cameron and House of Commons Speaker John Bercow.

The footage of alleged Paris attackers – four Belgian citizens, three Frenchmen and two Iraqis – also were included in the video conducting atrocities against hostages prior to the attack. Those seen being killed in the video have yet to be identified but the activist group Raqqa Is Being Silently Slaughtered claimed to have identified one of the men seen beheaded as a civilian from Raqqa.

Now in the new ISIS video, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who has been called the mastermind behind the Paris attacks, called for more attacks by ISIS in the video.

Though at least one of the Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attacks a year ago, was known to have traveled to Yemen to train with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, no video has surfaced of either brother in Yemen or in the presence of other al-Qaeda members.

Samy Amimour, a French national, is shown holding the severed head of his victim, and Omar Ismail Mostefai appears holding another captive by the neck. The group also threatened to attack Britain. The video is believed to have been filmed in Raqqa, the de facto capital of Isis, before the Paris attacks.

In the Islamic State video released Sunday, seven of the Paris attackers are shown addressing the camera, one by one, on a windswept dune.

French authorities declined to comment on the video’s authenticity.

A voice identifying itself as Abaaoud’s then addresses the US-led coalition forces now attacking ISIS territory in Iraq and Syria with airstrikes, threatening more terror attacks in retaliation if they continue to target ISIS.

Even as the French government confirmed the video and preferred not to comment, Spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry, Romain Nadal, said that they were studying the video.