ISIS threatens West, glorifies terrorists in new clip

ISIS has issued new threats against the West in a clip glorifying the murderers of 132 victims in Paris.  

By: AP

A new video released by the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group purports to show the terrorists who carried out the November 13 attacks in Paris committing atrocities in ISIS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital that left 132 people dead and hundreds wounded. The group also threatens to attack Britain.

The 17-minute video, which was released Sunday, shows the extent of the planning that went into the multiple attacks in Paris, which French authorities have said from the beginning were planned in Syria.

It also is likely meant to serve as a recruitment tool to rally followers to the extremists’ sinister cause. The video was provided online by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.

All nine terrorists seen in the video died in the Paris attacks or their aftermath. Seven of the attackers — four from Belgium and three from France — spoke fluent French. The other two — identified by their noms de guerre as Iraqis — spoke in Arabic.

Seven of the terrorists, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were filmed standing behind bound captives, described as “apostates,” who were either beheaded or shot.

“Soon on the Champs-Elysees,” says Samy Amimour, who was raised in a Paris suburb near the French national stadium, as he holds a captive’s head aloft.

The November 13 attacks targeted a packed concert hall, a restaurant and cafe, and a soccer match at the national stadium.

“These are the last messages of the nine lions of the caliphate who were mobilized from their lairs to make a whole country, France, get down on its knees,” a narrator in the video says.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said the government is studying the video, but would not comment on its contents. France’s Interior Ministry and the Paris prosecutor’s office had no immediate comment.

The video was apparently filmed before the men sneaked back into Europe and contains no footage shot by the attackers during the days of terror that began November 13 and ended only on November 18 with the death of Abdelhamid Abbaoud, who was believed to be the leader of the attacks.

Abaaoud died in a police raid on an apartment near the Stade de France.

The video appears to use material shot before the men left for Paris, news video and amateur video. The video did not specify where the nine men were filmed, but it was believed to have been in IS-controlled territory in Syria. Abbaoud is seen speaking in a room.

One terrorist, Brahim Abdeslam, is seen at a makeshift shooting range. Abdeslam, whose brother Salah fled Paris that night and remains at large, blew himself up at a Paris cafe where he was the only victim. Salah Abdeslam is not seen in the video.

According to the anti-islamic State activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, Brahim Abdeslam and two other attackers were trained in Raqqa, the extremist group’s stronghold and the capital of its self-proclaimed caliphate.

ISIS Threatens More Attacks

In the video, as in other Islamic State propaganda trying to drive a wedge between European Muslims and their governments, the terrorists say it is a religious duty to join them.

They threaten more attacks in Europe, and the footage closes with one of the terrorists holding a severed head and footage of Cameron giving a speech — with a text in English warning that whoever stands with the unbelievers “will be a target for our swords.”

The video was released by Alhayat, the Islamic State group’s media arm.