Video purports to show Islamic State fighters executing ‘British spies’
Reporting from Beirut — A video circulating online purports to show the Islamic State group executing five men accused of spying for Britain in Syria.
The footage Sunday bears the markings of the IS media wing, and shows five men “confessing” to filming and photographing sites in exchange for money within Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State group’s self-declared caliphate. It could not be independently verified.
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The men, speaking Arabic, are introduced as “the enemy” and “apostates.” Later they kneel while lined up wearing orange jumpsuits in the desert, where they are shot in the head by masked executioners.
Before the shooting, a masked man with a British accent mocks British Prime Minister David Cameron, calls the men “spies,” and says IS will one day invade Britain and impose its version of Islamic law.
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