Earlier this week, Americans were shocked – shocked – when ISIS released a new video threatening to attack Washington DC.
The clip – another Hollywood special shot in full HD – is a kind of mini-lecture series featuring three jihadist speakers. One is an intellectual-looking fellow who calmly makes his case against a serene looking oasis background, another is a raving, crazy-eyed militant who is inexplicably sitting in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck, and the third is a soldier flanked by two not-so-serious looking comrades speaking against a backdrop that features some shrubs and an armored vehicle manned by a couple of set extras and/or character actors.
As patently absurd as it was, it scared a lot of people and at least according to new ‘information’ acquired in raids by French police this week, the militants were indeed intent on keeping at least one of the promises they made in the video – that is, staging more attacks on France, as Reuters reported on Wednesday that the cell raided in St-Denis planned to attack La Defense and the Quatre Temps.
The video described above was actually one of two released on the same day by Furat Media and indeed, ISIS’ video production team has been working overtime this week to capitalize on the frenzy around the Paris attacks.
Furat’s latest effort (out last night apparently) is another France montage but there’s a notable 30 second portion which depicts a man building a suicide belt, strapping it on, walking into a crowd, and hitting the switch.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/19/2015.
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