New IS video shows extremists were versed in atrocity before Paris attacks

PanARMENIAN.Net - A new video released by the Islamic State group purports to show the extremists who carried out the November 13 attacks in Paris committing atrocities in IS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital that left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. The group also threatens Britain, the Associated Press reports.

The 17-minute video, released Sunday, January 24, 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.

All nine men seen in the video died in the Paris attacks or their aftermath. Seven of the attackers — 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 militants, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were filmed standing behind bound captives, described as "apostates," who were either beheaded or shot.

"Soon on the Champs-Elysees," says Samy Amimour, who was raised in a Paris suburb near the French national stadium, as he holds a captive's head aloft.

The attacks targeted a packed concert hall, a restaurant and cafe, and a soccer match at the national stadium.

"No threat will give France pause in what it must do against terrorist. And if I have taken steps to extend the state of emergency, it is because I am aware of the threat and that we will not concede," President Francois Hollande said in response to the video.

French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said the government is studying the video but would not comment on its contents.