Just hours after shocking the world with the desert execution of 250 Syrian soldiers, the Islamic State have released a new decapitation video. The new video with the hashtag “2ndAmessagetoAmerica” (or “AmessagetoBarzani” in other versions) shows the beheading of a Kurdish soldier that was part of 15 fighters captured during fighting in Iraq.
The second video urges the Kurds to break from their alliance with the West against the caliphate. It starts with a scene of prisoners dressed in the same orange jumpsuit that Foley had worn in the video of his execution. The clothes are fashioned along the ones worn by prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.
Kurdish prisoner Hassan Mohammed Hashin reads a statement in Kurdish that says, “You have made a huge mistake by joining hands with America.”
The setting switches to the sandy roadside behind the Great Mosque of Mosul in Iraq. Three Islamic State fighters stand behind their victim, thought to be a Kurdish soldier. All three wear a similar black uniform worn by the British jihadist who executed Foley.
One of the three masked men speaks in Arabic: “In the name of God, peace be upon him. I have two messages: the first one is for the dog of Roman, the jerk Obama, how did you send your nation and soldiers again to Iraq, did you forget the thousands of dead Americans who you gave them as a sacrifice for wars. Did you forget thousands of images of corpses, deformed and those people who still suffer? Did the economy of America recovered from its crises to get into a new one? But the second message is for the servant of the Jewish Mas’od, this is the destiny of one of the militant and others who you sent to Muslims unless you finish your work with the Jewish and your allied with the Crusaders.”
The jihadist takes a large knife from his belt, and begins to slit the throat of the soldier, cutting off the head. Similar to the video of Foley’s execution, the camera cuts away and later shows the decapitation. The executor then vows to keep beheading more prisoners if the U.S. and the Iraqi Kurdistan continue collaborating.
The ending of the video shows jihadists parading near Mosul.
Here is an excerpt from the video that YouTube immediately removed and has already deleted several related videos uploaded so far:
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