Foley was the first Western journalist to appear in an ISIS video, in which militants purported to show his beheading. journalist James Foley, according to the New York Times. As he did in past videos, Cantlie introduced himself as “British citizen abandoned by my government,” but in this particular video, he added that he was a “prisoner of the Islamic State for nearly two years.”Ī freelance journalist whose bylines appeared in the Sunday Times of London and the Telegraph, Cantlie was captured in 2012 along the Turkish border in Syria alongside U.S.
In the nearly eight-minute video, Cantlie appears alone in a dark room, seated at a table and dressed in an orange jump suit.
military, the policemen of the world, are able to contain them.” He said ISIS has “grown exponentially, until not even the U.S. officials’ statements about the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Western media outlets’ coverage of the group. “At the first sniff of something they don’t like, the American war machine springs to life, whipped along by the Western media, as usual.”ĭuring his prepared speech, Cantlie quotes several U.S. “They say that people have short memories but the ink is not yet dry on the orders to pull out of Afghanistan and yet here we are, gearing up for Gulf War III,” Cantlie said. The video was released on YouTube Thursday, and like the rest of the series, it was narrated by kidnapped British journalist John Cantlie. The Islamic State group’s fifth video of their propaganda campaign “Lend Me Your Ears” focused on the western media’s alleged push for the public to support an “unwinnable” war against the militants. Kidnapped British journalist John Cantlie as seen in the latest video released by ISIS on Oct.
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