IS releases chilling video of Paris killers threatening UK

ISLAMIC State released a chilling video last night claiming to show the final messages of nine of the 11 jihadists behind the Paris attacks – and apparently making a direct threat against Britain.

The video appears to show the attackers beheading or shooting prisoners and issuing their last words before they launched last year’s massacre which left 130 people dead.

It finishes with a threat to carry out a terror attack in the UK in response to Britain’s decision to launch air strikes on Syria.

The slickly-produced footage shows David Cameron with text in English: ‘Whoever stands in the ranks of kufr (unbelievers) will be a target for our swords.’

The Prime Minister and Commons Speaker John Bercow are singled out, with targets superimposed on their heads, before a montage of potential targets in central London flashes across the screen.

The video, produced by Islamic State’s Al-Hayat Media Centre, describes the nine jihadists as ‘lions’ who ‘brought France to its knees’. It also names locations that were attacked on November 13.

The footage was released through the media channel of the so-called Islamic State.

If its contents are genuine, it appears to be the first evidence that all of the Paris attackers had travelled to IS-held territory and were centrally coordinated.

The BBC reported that the monitoring group Site had confirmed that nine men resembling some of those involved in Paris appeared in the video. The group said four of the men are seen beheading or shooting prisoners.

Nine attackers died during the Paris atrocities and in police operations immediately afterwards. Two men, Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini, remain at large.

The video is said to include threats from Abdelhamid Abbaoud, the mastermind of the attacks, who was killed in a police raid on a Paris flat, and shows other members of the militant cell carrying out horrific executions. Samy Aminour, a former Paris bus driver who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Qital al-Farans, grins into the camera after an anti-Western diatribe that concludes with the beheading of a prisoner.

The video’s appearance online is bound to raise further questions about how terrorists were able to travel so easily between IS-controlled territory and the heart of Europe.