The ISIS militants group has released and paraded a video entitled "Flames of War" to threaten US President Barack Obama against his campaign to degrade and destroy the terrorist organization.
The 52-second video rationales to be a trailer for film entitled "Flames of War" showing a clip of Obama saying American combat troops will not be returning to Iraq, followed by a subheading saying, "Fighting has just begun." The video released by the ISIS militants appeared to be a warning and a threat to US which implied that terrorist fighters are waiting in Iraq if Obama chooses to send troops there.
The recent ISIS video was released on Tuesday showing US tanks in positions being assaulted by jihadists using shoulder-launched missiles, injured US soldiers and men on their knees as they are about to be executed. It contained blockbuster style slow-motion replays of CGI explosions, jihadists in combat and jump-cutting. The video appeared to have been released by the Al Hayat Media Center, which distributes ISIS' English-language publicity.
The film is one of a series of videos released by ISIS, ended with the text quoted as "Coming soon." It seemed to have been released hours after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey said in the Senate Armed Services Committee testimony that if recent Iraq strategy is not adequate he could vouch for deploying US soldiers. It also included an image of the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was part of Bush's disreputable speech backdrop on an aircraft carrier after the 2003 US-led Iraq invasion. There was also footage of Bush's defense chief, Donald Rumsfeld touring Iraq.
The "Flames of War" video by the ISIS militants also showed the beheading footages of two American journalists and a British aid worker. ISIS has also released publicity videos targeted at urging people from the West to join combat in Iraq and Syria.
The Obama administration and the US military forces had already intensified its campaign against ISIS militants with a string of airstrikes athwart Iraq and Syria after the president sworn to degrade and ultimately destroy the rebels last week.
The ISIS video came as the Pentagon released details of more airstrikes southwest of Baghdad and northwest of Irbil on Monday and Tuesday. The US Central Command said that military forces using fighter aircraft launched two air strikes north-west of Irbil and struck an armed truck and fighters. While, three other air strikes south-west of Baghdad hit anti-aircraft artillery, a truck and two boats that was resupplying the militants on the Euphrates River.
Beforehand, the strikes were limited to defending US interests and personnel, assisting Iraqi refugees and securing Iraq's critical infrastructure. In the new strategy, US forces are going after ISIS militants wherever they are. Obama has hitherto ruled out troops on the ground, but General Dempsey recommended he could send some to entrench with the Iraqi and Kurdish forces in a "close combat advising" part.
General Dempsey told the Senate hearing saying, "To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIS targets, I will recommend that to the president."
General Dempsey, who has for years cautioned about the "unintended consequences" of Americanizing the Syrian civil war that gave rise to ISIS, said that he projected "close combat advising" for operations on the order of taking Iraq's second largest city, Mosul away from ISIS.
As the ISIS militants publicly released and paraded their recent video against the US and Obama, the ongoing terrorist crisis will surely heightened and continue in Syria and Iraq.
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