By Ted Thornhill Chilling video footage appears to show a British militant taking part in the cold-blooded execution of a prisoner loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The film shows a man kneeling with his feet crossed and head bowed in a field in Syria, then being shot in the back of the head by a man armed with a pistol. Another man then fires at the prisoner with a machine gun. Researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) believe that this gunman is from London and is part of a militant group called Rahat al Tawheed (Banner of God).
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Chilling footage has emerged of a man being executed in a field in Syria
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Researchers believe that one of the gunmen involved is from London
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The gunman is thought to be from radical group Rahat al Tawheed
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The same man appears on several separate YouTube videos, say experts
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ICSR
After analysing the physique, wristwatch and balaclava of the man with the machine gun, @placeholder concluded that it’s very probably the same man seen making pronouncements in a series of Rahat al Tawheed YouTube videos.
Rahat al Tawheed
Rahat al Tawheed
After analysing the physique, wristwatch and balaclava of the man with the machine gun, ICSR concluded that it’s very probably the same man seen making pronouncements in a series of @placeholder YouTube videos.