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ISIL Releases Video of Captive British Photojournalist

ISIL Releases Video of Captive British Photojournalist
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The "ISIL" group released a video Thursday of a British freelance photojournalist, John Cantlie, in which he says he is being held captive.

ISIL Releases Video of Captive British PhotojournalistIn the video posted on YouTube, Cantlie, wearing an orange jumpsuit, speaks to the camera in the style of a news report and promises to reveal in a series of programs the "truth" about the jihadist group that has seized parts of Iraq and Syria.

Cantlie, who had contributed to British newspapers including The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph, as well as to Agence France-Presse, said he was captured after travelling to Syria in November 2012.

He had previously been detained along with a Dutch photographer by extremists in Syria in July 2012 but was reportedly released after nine days.

It was not clear when the video was shot, but in it Cantlie referred to recent events including ISIS taking control of large parts of Iraq in June.
Speaking in English with Arabic subtitles, Cantlie says in the 3:21-minute video - titled "Lend Me Your Ears" -- that he plans to reveal "the truth behind the systems and motivation of the ISIL".

Cantlie criticizes the US and UK governments for refusing to pay ransoms for their citizens. He says that while other European nations [including Spain and France] were willing to negotiate with "ISIL" to secure the release of their citizens, "the British and Americans were left behind."

Washington and London, he adds, "thought they could do it differently to every other European country."

At the end of the video Cantlie asks viewers to join him again for the next program - indicating that this video may be just the first of a series of propaganda clips featuring him.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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