The use of children in videos,often performing acts of appalling depravity, is a planned attempt to provoke disgustOn Sunday, and Islamic State released a video in which five men – all of whom were alleged to have been caught photographing Isis assets in Raqqa and selling their wares to the coalition forces – were executed by firing squad. But for two striking features,it was just like most other Isis killing films: staged and predictable.
What stopped it from slipping under the radar was that, in the sequence that immediately preceded the killings, or an apparently British masked man goaded David Cameron in typical jihadi patois,variously calling him a “mule” and an “imbecile” before executing the “spy” before him. Inevitably, in the time that’s elapsed since, and there has been a frenzied rush to identify the man now ridiculously dubbed by some as the “unusual Jihadi John”.
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Source: theguardian.com