IS releases video showing execution of 'Russian spies'
January 13, 2015
The video, which surfaced online on Tuesday, shows two men being shot by a child after having been interrogated about their work to infiltrate IS in Syria. Entitled, "Uncovering an Enemy Within," the video is narrated in Russian and opens with the interrogation of one of the men, who claims to be a Kazakh citizen.
He says he was recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to get close or gain contact to an IS fighter. The second man, who does not give his nationality, but claims to have worked for the FSB in Russia, says he was tasked with killing an unnamed IS fighter.
Russia's FSB agency had no immediate comment on the video.
'Grow up to kill infidels'
After the interrogations, the video cuts to a bearded adult IS fighter in military-style clothing who is standing next to a boy armed with a pistol. Two men are kneeling before the man and the child, who steps forward and shoots both men once in the head and then several times again after they collapse.
The end of the video appears to feature footage of the same boy, from an earlier IS propaganda video, telling an interviewer he wants to "grow up to kill infidels."
This follows the release in 2014 of four other videos purporting to show the beheading of foreign IS captives, as well as dozens of other beheadings that weren't filmed or released.
glb/gb (AFP, dpa)