Smiling at the wheel of a pickup truck, a bearded young man looks into the camera and gives the go-ahead, in French, for the camera to record the next scene. What follows are scenes of brutality that has shocked France.
The pickup starts to move, dragging along at least half-a-dozen corpses through the fields of northern Syria amid cries of “takfir” – an Arabic term used by one Muslim to denounce another Muslim as an unbeliever.
The jihadists in the pickup belong to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – one of the hardline Salafist groups that have edged out nationalist opposition fighters in the Syrian conflict against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
The disturbing video was aired Thursday night in a documentary titled, "Le quotidien de jihadistes en Syrie" (The daily lives of jihadists in Syria) on the French BFM TV station and features the exploits of an ISIS brigade comprised of about 40 French and Belgian jihadists in Syria. The footage was filmed in February around the northern Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border and handed over to two French journalists by supporters of the nationalist Free Syrian Army (FSA).
http://www.france24.com/en/20140327-syria-french-jihadist-video-shocks-france/
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