Islamic state video claims to show paris attackers, threatens uk

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A print screen of the hacked Facebook page of French television network TV5Monde is seen on a camera viewer in Paris April 9, 2015. Christian Hartmann | Reuters A video published on Sunday


by the media center of Islamic State purported to show images and last statements of nine of the people who took part in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on Nov. 13. Reuters could


not independently verify the authenticity of the footage, which showed the men delivering anti-Western diatribes and concluded with an apparent threat to attack Britain. The French Foreign


Ministry declined to comment on the video. There was no immediate comment from the prime minister's office, and Reuters was not immediately able to reach officials at the Interior


Ministry. A spokeswoman for the National Security Council at the White House had no comment. Laith Alkhouri of Flashpoint Global Partners, which monitors militants' social media, said


the "video meets all the right criteria of an authentic and official ISIS release." The video was uploaded to Islamic State's official Telegram channel and showed some of the


attackers wearing camouflage fatigues in a desert location, before the time of the Paris attacks. Several of them were shown beheading hostages of the ultra-hardline militant group, a tactic


it has frequently used. "These are the last messages of the nine lions of the caliphate who were mobilized from their lairs to make a whole country, France, get down on its


knees," a narrator in the video said. On the night of Nov. 13, nine men, split into three groups, attacked a sports stadium, a string of cafes and a concert hall. Islamic State claims


responsibility for attack in Jakarta An arrest warrant has been issued for another man, Salah Abdeslam, who fled to Belgium the following day. The attackers are identified in the video by


noms de guerre referring to their nationalities - three French, four Belgian and two Iraqis, referred to as Ali al-Iraqi and Ukashah al-Iraqi. The two could be the suicide bombers who tried


to attack the Stade de France stadium. They carried Syrian passports assumed to be forged and could not be formally identified. Seven other dead attackers have already been identified. The


video showed footage of British Prime Minister David Cameron expressing solidarity with the French people after the attacks, and concluded by flashing a slogan on the screen saying:


"Whoever stands in the ranks of kafir (infidels) will be a target for our swords." A spokesman for Cameron had no immediate comment. _ Follow CNBC International on Twitter and


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