![]() ![]() Cantlie does not mention the airstrikes, suggesting that the third video was recorded before the strikes had taken place. began bombing raids on Islamic State targets inside Syria. 23, the later one the same day that the U.S. The Islamic State released the previous Cantlie videos - bizarrely titled “Lend Me Your Ears” - on Sept. But in words that were no doubt written by his captors, Cantlie acknowledged that the group kills Shiite Muslims, saying that Shiites were “worse than Americans because they are apostates claiming to be Muslims while worshiping the dead,” a reference to the Shiite tradition of praying at the graves of dead religious figures. He also took issue with Obama’s statement that the Islamic State had murdered or abused Iraqi Christian and Yazidi women and children, or that it had killed Muslims. He described the American-European-Arab intervention against the Islamic State as unpopular and unlikely to succeed and said that it was not supported by the American people, but then noted that direct action against the Islamic State was supported by 70 percent of Americans. His presentation seemed less polished than in the previous videos. In the 5½-minute video, he wore an orange shirt that mimics the uniforms of prisoners held by the United States at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 10 speech in which he laid out his strategy for confronting the group.Ĭantlie, who has been a prisoner of the Islamic State for nearly two years, appears pale and thin, and he sounds more stressed than in the previous two videos. ![]() IRBIL, Iraq - The Islamic State on Monday posted on the Internet a third video featuring imprisoned British journalist John Cantlie, this one mocking President Barack Obama’s Sept.
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