‘Paris Attackers’ Behead Captives In ISIS Video

One militant holds up a captive’s head and warns he will do the same on the Champs-Elysees in newly released footage.

Islamic State has released a video appearing to show the militants who later carried out the Paris attacks beheading or shooting prisoners and training with weapons.

The 17-minute video claims to include the last statements of nine of the jihadis who took part in the 13 November attacks that killed 130 people.

“These are the last messages of the nine lions of the caliphate who were mobilised from their lairs to make a whole country, France, get down on its knees,” a narrator in the video says.

It was uploaded to the group’s online channel and shows some of the militants wearing camouflage clothes in a desert location.

One of them appears to be Bilal Hadfi, who became known as the “baby-faced terrorist”.

He blew himself up outside the Stade de France during the Paris attacks.

“You destroy our homes and kill our fathers, our brothers, our sisters, our mothers, our children,” he says.

Samy Amimour, who was raised in a Paris suburb near the French national stadium, says “soon on the Champs-Elysees” as he holds up a captive’s head.

Salah Abdeslam, who fled Paris on the night of the attacks and remains at large, is not in the footage, but his brother Brahim, who blew himself up at a cafe, is shown at a makeshift shooting range.

The video also appears to show Abu Qital al Faransi – the gunman blew himself up after he opened fire in the Bataclan theatre.

The attackers are all 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.

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Two More Paris Attackers Identified

French prosecutors said Monday they had identified two more Paris attackers, including a Syrian and a Frenchman who was previously charged in a “terrorist” case.

A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the Stade de France stadium is believed to be Syrian Ahmad Al Mohammad from Idlib.

A statement from the prosecutor’s office said the Syrian passport found in that name near the body “remains to be verified”, but that fingerprints matched those taken in Greece in October.

The second was 28-year-old Samy Amimour, from the suburb of Drancy outside Paris.

He was involved in the massacre of 89 people in the Bataclan concert hall, one of a spate of attacks on nightlife spots late on Friday which left 129 dead and hundreds injured.

Amimour “is known to anti-terrorist investigators for being charged on October 19, 2012 for conspiracy to commit terrorism” over a planned attack in Yemen that was foiled.

He violated his judicial supervision in 2013, prompting judges to issue an international arrest warrant.

His family told AFP, in an interview before Friday’s attacks in Paris took place, that he had gone to Syria in 2013.

Three members of Amimour’s family were taken into custody early on Monday, said the statement.

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