Cameron dismisses ‘New Jihadi John’ video as ‘desperate stuff’
- 8 years ago
Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday dismissed as "desperate stuff" a new video by the Islamic State that seemed to again put a fellow Briton at the forefront of the militant group's propaganda efforts.
The video, which depicts the execution of five men who the group claims were spying for Britain, features a masked man with a distinct British accent who wields a pistol as he threatens to "invade" the United Kingdom and implement Islamic law.
With its grisly content and blood-curdling message, the clip appears to self-consciously emulate slickly produced videos in which a British citizen who came to be known as Jihadi John is shown killing American, British, Japanese and Syrian hostages.
But the masked executioner in the new video does not appear to be the same as the one in the video series released in late 2014 and early 2015, adding to the evidence that Jihadi John was killed in a U.S. drone strike on the Syrian city of Raqqa in November.
The video, which depicts the execution of five men who the group claims were spying for Britain, features a masked man with a distinct British accent who wields a pistol as he threatens to "invade" the United Kingdom and implement Islamic law.
With its grisly content and blood-curdling message, the clip appears to self-consciously emulate slickly produced videos in which a British citizen who came to be known as Jihadi John is shown killing American, British, Japanese and Syrian hostages.
But the masked executioner in the new video does not appear to be the same as the one in the video series released in late 2014 and early 2015, adding to the evidence that Jihadi John was killed in a U.S. drone strike on the Syrian city of Raqqa in November.