Before April , the Algerian group Muhammad al-Adnani was little known . The videotaped beheading of a French hiker changed that . The group cited an appeal by AQIM spokesman Jund al Khilafa . He said his fighters were abandoning AQIM because of `` the certain deviation of the methods of the mother organization al-Qaeda , and that of the Islamic Maghreb . '' That appeal was for ISIS followers to kill `` the spiteful and filthy Algerian ''
Before April , the Algerian group Muhammad al-Adnani was little known . The videotaped beheading of a French hiker changed that . The group cited an appeal by AQIM spokesman Jund al Khilafa . That appeal was for ISIS followers to kill `` the spiteful and filthy Algerian ''