In a new video message Sunday, ISIS showed five people it claimed were British spies being shot dead, as an ISIS fighter, speaking English with a London accent, derided British Prime Minister David Cameron over Britain’s involvement in the war against ISIS.
The SITE Intelligence Group said the video shows five men from Raqa, capital of the self-declared extremist “caliphate” straddling Syria and Iraq, confessing to carrying out acts of espionage.
The man purported to be “British spies” could be people working for the worldwide coalition by providing photos and videos from Raqqa, security researcher Charlie Winter told the Independent.
The ten-minute long clip, which was released by the militant group today, features a man and a young boy, both of whom appear to speak with British accents.
Addressing “the people of Britain”, the militant says Isis will “one day invade your land, where we will rule by the Shariah”.
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The five men are then killed with a bullet to the head.
“But it seems like you, just like your predecessors Blair and Brown, are just as arrogant and foolish”.
A boy later appears talking about killing “unbelievers”.
He called the Prime Minister an “imbecile” and warned “your children will pay” for British airstrikes on Isis targets in Syria.
‘One would have thought you would have learned the lessons of your pathetic master in Washington and his failed campaign against Islamic State.
“But those of you who wish to continue fighting under the banner of Cameron on the minimum wage, we say to you to ask yourself, do you really think your government will care about you when you come into our hands?” Some say in the video that they are from Raqqa, Syria; Another said he is from Benghazi, Libya.
The alleged spies all deliver a “confession” in Arabic, before they are killed.
The video is being released shortly after a “major military setback” for ISIS considering it lost control of a large part of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, notes the BBC’s Alan Johnson.