Video Shows Paris Terrorists Committing Earlier IS Atrocities

A new video released by the Islamic State group purports to show the terrorists, who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that left 130 dead and hundreds wounded, committing atrocities in IS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital. The group also threatens to attack Britain.

The 17-minute video, which was released Sunday, shows the extent of the planning that went into the multiple attacks in Paris, which French authorities have said from the beginning were planned in Syria. It also is likely meant to serve as a recruitment tool to rally followers to the extremists’ sinister cause. The video was provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi sites.

All nine terrorists seen in the video died in the Paris attacks or their aftermath. Seven of the terrorists – four from Belgium and three from France – spoke fluent French. The two others – identified by their noms de guerre as Iraqis – spoke in Arabic.

Seven of the terrorists, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were filmed standing behind bound captives, described as “apostates,” who were brutally murdered.

“Soon on the Champs-Elysees,” says Samy Amimour, who was raised in a Paris suburb near the French national stadium. The Nov. 13 terror attacks targeted a packed concert hall, a restaurant and cafe, and an event at the national stadium.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said the government is studying the video but would not comment on its contents. France’s Interior Ministry and the Paris Prosecutor’s Office had no immediate comment.

The video was apparently filmed before the terrorists sneaked back into Europe and contains no footage shot by the terrorists during the days of terror that began Nov. 13 and ended only on Nov. 18 with the death of Abdelhamid Abbaoud, who was believed to be the leader of the attacks.

Abbaoud died in a police raid on an apartment near the Stade de France.

One terrorist, Brahim Abdeslam, is seen at a makeshift shooting range. Abdeslam, whose brother Salah fled Paris that night and remains at large, blew himself up at a Paris cafe where he was the only victim. Salah Abdeslam is not seen in the video.

According to the anti-Islamic State activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), Brahim Abdeslam and two other terrorists were trained in Raqqa, the terror group’s stronghold and the capital of its self-proclaimed caliphate.

In the video, as in other Islamic State propaganda trying to drive a wedge between European Muslims and their governments, the men say it is a religious duty to join them.

They threaten more attacks in Europe, and the footage closes with footage of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron giving a speech – with a text in English warning that whoever stands with the unbelievers “will be a target for our swords.”

The video was released by Alhayat, the Islamic State group’s media arm.