The propaganda video begins with a quote from former CIA chief Michael Scheuer. “In this program, we’ll see how the Western governments are hastily marching towards all-out war in Iraq and Syria without paying any heed to the lessons of the recent past,” Cantlie says in the video. journalist James Foley, according to the New York Times. He was captured in 2012 along the Turkish border in Syria with U.S. The jumpsuit appears to be the same as in the first video in which Cantlie announced he would be narrating the multi-part propaganda “lecture series.” Cantlie introduces himself in the recent video as the “British citizen abandoned by my government and the long-time prisoner of the Islamic State.”Ĭantlie is a freelance journalist whose bylines appeared in the Sunday Times of London and The Telegraph. Throughout the nearly six-minute video, posted on the terrorist monitoring group SITE Intelligence, Cantlie is seen seated at a table wearing an orange jumpsuit. The militants are reportedly holding Cantlie and other western hostages in Raqqa, the self-declared capital of the Islamic State, and the first target in the U.S. In the video released early Tuesday, Cantlie makes a reference to President Barack Obama’s speech earlier this month, which suggests that the video was filmed after the U.S. And, Cantlie's comments seem tailored to challenge the American government to ground combat. bombs began to fall on the militants' strongholds in Syria. The Islamic State group released the second part of their propaganda series, which appears to be narrated by kidnapped British journalist John Cantlie, just as the first U.S. Kidnapped British journalist John Cantlie as seen in the first video released by ISIS on Sept.
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