So in other words, an out of work British actor got a temp job.
LONDON (AP) – The black-clad Islamic militant fighter who appears in a video beheading American journalistJames Foley appears to be British, the U.K. foreign minister said Wednesday – a development that underscores the insurgents’ increasingly sophisticated use of Western fighters to mobilize recruits and terrorize enemies.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the man in the video with Foley “appears to have been a British person.”
He spoke after U.S. officials confirmed as authentic the grisly video showing an Islamic State militant beheading Foley and threatening to kill another hostage.
The masked militant in the clip speaks fluent English with what Lancaster University linguist Claire Hardaker said sounds like a London accent.
Hammond told the BBC that Britain was aware that U.K. nationals were involved in committing atrocities with Islamic State extremists and other organizations.
Hammond says the possible involvement of a Briton underscored the risks that those now fighting with Islamic militants could return to Britain and carry out attacks at home.
British officials have said that several hundred people from Britain have traveled to Syria to join the battle against President Bashar Assad, and some may have crossed into Iraq as part of the rapid advance of the Islamic State group. French and German officials have recently put the combined total of those countries around 1,300.
Shiraz Maher of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London, said the video was evidence that British jihadis were “some of the most vicious and vociferous fighters” in Syria and Iraq.
“Unfortunately the British participation in the conflicts now raging in both Syria and Iraq has been has been one of full participation, one that has seen them at the front lines, taking part in the conflict in every way,” Maher told BBC radio. “So we have seen British fighters out there operating as suicide bombers, we have seen them operating as executioners.”
The group has previously used Western fighters in its recruitment videos. In June, it released a video showing British and Australian militants exhorting compatriots to join them in violent jihad.
Nigel Inkster, a terrorism expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the videos reflected an increasingly sophisticated media strategy designed to energize recruits and deliver to Western governments and citizens a message “of fear and a perception of inevitability.”
from jimstonefreelance.com:
Isis beheading a psy op – I waited to say anything about this because the Nick Berg video was fake. And this beheading is fake too, COUNT ON IT. The man doing the beheading is speaking with a British accent. That means no journalist lost his head and it is all a show. The related article is linked above, and this would explain why Britian says viewing the video is a terrorist act, because it is FREAKING FAKE. No kidding, British police say watching the video is an act of terrorism and you want to know why? Because it is FAKE AS FRUIT LOOPS.
1. Foley is smiling in parts of the video. 2. The beheader has a British accent. 3. No blood comes out when the beheading starts. 4. It then cuts, and you do not actually get to see the beheading. 5. When the video returns, you see a headless body.
Bottom line, THERE IS NO BEHEADING VIDEO and that is exactly why, in Britain, trying to watch the video is a “terrorist act”. The video is such a terrible fake those who fronted it are terrified of having people watch it.
They just want you to believe, while never having seen it.
You can watch this HERE, and you can ignore the gore warning, there really is no blood when the beheading starts and it just cuts to an obvious fake, with a perfectly clean cut head sitting on the body with a little fake blood and no spatters on the sand anywhere.
i’m down with the psyops and fakery in the news, trust nothing in these times.
it’s evident an agenda is being propagated.
If I’m not mistaken, aren’t most all bad guys in hollywood movies sporting a british accent?
I’m just sayin’.