Isis video threatens to target White House and US troops

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Islamic State militants have threatened to target the White House and kill US troops in a new slickly made video response to Barack Obama’s campaign to “degrade and destroy” the organisation.

The video, in the style of a blockbuster movie trailer for what is “coming soon”, depicts a masked man apparently about to shoot kneeling prisoners in the head. Towards the end of the clip there is shaky footage of the White House filmed from a moving vehicle, suggesting the building is being scoped out for attack.

It was released on Tuesday after US defence chiefs suggested that American troops could join Iraqi forces fighting Isis, despite Obama’s assurance that US soldiers would not be engaged in fighting on the ground.

The only words on the 52-second clip are those of Obama making that pledge. “American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq,” it quotes him saying. This comes directly after footage of US troops being shot at, injured and taken away in an armoured vehicle, threatening what will happen if troops are redeployed to Iraq.

The video was released by the al-Hayat Media Centre, Isis’s English-language propaganda arm. It includes the now-familiar high-production hallmarks of an Isis video, including super-slow motion footage of jihadis in combat, jump-cutting, and CGI explosions.

It purports to be a trailer for film entitled Flames of War with the strapline “Fighting has just begun”.

It shows US tanks and positions being attacked by jihadis using shoulder-launched missiles. It also includes an image of the “Mission Accomplished” banner that was part of the backdrop to George Bush’s infamous speech on an aircraft carrier after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. There is also footage of Bush’s defence chief, Donald Rumsfeld, on a tour of Iraq…. see more

source: The Guardian UK

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