[AnNahar] The jihadist Islamic State group has posted video of the execution of a captured Kurdish fighter, in a warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said.
The United States has carried out a wave of air strikes against the jihadists in northern Iraq, helping Kurdish forces to claw back ground lost to the murderous Moslems earlier this month.
The video, titled "A message in blood to the leaders of the American-Kurdish alliance," opens with 15 men in orange jumpsuits standing around the IS flag.
Three of the men ask Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani "and the Kurdish government to end their relationship with the U.S. ... military intervention in northern Iraq," the SITE Intelligence Group monitoring service said.
| Consider them dead, as they will be the moment someone over there gets in a mood, and work to erase IS from the face of the Earth. nothing less will do. |
"Any mistake or recklessness from you will lead to the (loss) of our life," SITE quoted one of the men as saying.
The video then cuts to three masked men dressed in black standing in front of a mosque with another man wearing an orange jumpsuit kneeling in front of them. They then behead him.
| Golly, only one instead of all? They must be more concerned about the Kurds than the Shiites as foes. |
The video follows another released by IS showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley and threatening another kidnapped news hound Steven Sotloff with the same fate if U.S. air strikes are not halted.
It also comes hot on the heels of video of scores of bodies that IS boasted were those of Syrian soldiers they had captured and executed following their seizure of a northern key air base last weekend. |