The 10-minute video, posted online, showed the five men in orange jumpsuits introducing themselves in Arabic and “confessing” to spying for the United Kingdom by filming and photographing sites in exchange for money within Syria’s northern city of al-Raqqah.
In the video the alleged spies are shown aged between 25 to 40 years old kneeling on the ground before five executioners, as a militant speaking in a British accent says they have been “abandoned” by the British government.
The middle executioner, then, began delivering a propaganda rant, addressing the UK premier, Cameron an “imbecile and a slave of the White House” and mocked him as he dared “to wage war against” IS with “a handful of planes” and threatened him over the UK’s campaign in Syria.
Then, executioners shot their guns in the victims’ heads, apparently killing all five. The video ended with a small boy, dressed in an army uniform, shouting “We will kill infidels over there,” pointing into distance.
It is thought the spies are not British citizens, but have been executed for working for the coalition and providing photos and videos from inside Raqqa. Charlie Winter, an expert in Isis’s media output, said they are alleged to have handed intelligence to foreign fighters from the UK.
The militant compares the Prime Minister to “arrogant and foolish” predecessors Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, and concludes: “You will lose this war, as you lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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