Jund al-Khilafa, an ISIS-aligned militant group in Algeria, released a video Wednesday allegedly showing the beheading of Hervé Gourdel, a French tourist it held captive and
threatened to kill if French President Francois Hollande didn't withdraw from the U.S.-led coalition of airstrikes in Iraq. The jihadists reportedly released the video on Twitter, according to the
SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terrorist chatter.
The 4-minute, 46-second video, titled "A Message with Blood to the French Government," features footage of Hollande. Gourdel is shown on his knees speaking as men wrapped in headscarves and carrying guns stand behind him. SITE said the footage doesn't show the actual beheading, but another shot shows Gourdel's severed head resting on his lap before the men hold up his head.
The video is similar to the beheadings of U.S. journalists
James Foley and
Steven Sotloff and British aid worker
David Cawthorne Haines at the hands of ISIS. SITE said Jund al-Khilafa has taken cues from the group, now known as the Islamic State.
Still from the video posted by Jund al-Khilafa showing the before and after of of Mr Gourdel's beheading.
"As the Islamic State has instructed its supporters all over the world to execute attacks, the beheading of this French hostage may not be the last demonstration of this nature," said SITE Director Rita Katz.
Watch video below: Warning, it contains graphic content.
Comment: 1. The latest beheading video was
again discovered by the notorious
Rita Katz. If the thread of Islamist militants no longer exists, will this lady find herself without a job?
2. The blood-lusting, evil-beyond-evil terrible Islamist terrorists have surprisingly spared us in all videos the gruesomeness of the actual beheading. Could this be a sign that they might have a heart after-all?
3. The same terrible Muslim terrorists must be completely stupid since they do not seem to realize that their threats and beheadings simply DO NOT work. France, the UK, the U.S. and allies continue their bombings undeterred.
4. And most important point:
Algerian militants behead a
French citizen at a time that about 15% of the population of France consists of Algerian immigrants and the
racism against Muslims in the country is seeing new heights.
Comment: 1. The latest beheading video was again discovered by the notorious Rita Katz. If the thread of Islamist militants no longer exists, will this lady find herself without a job?
2. The blood-lusting, evil-beyond-evil terrible Islamist terrorists have surprisingly spared us in all videos the gruesomeness of the actual beheading. Could this be a sign that they might have a heart after-all?
3. The same terrible Muslim terrorists must be completely stupid since they do not seem to realize that their threats and beheadings simply DO NOT work. France, the UK, the U.S. and allies continue their bombings undeterred.
4. And most important point: Algerian militants behead a French citizen at a time that about 15% of the population of France consists of Algerian immigrants and the racism against Muslims in the country is seeing new heights.