ISIS To Obama: 'We Will Cut Off Your Head In The White House'
ISIS militants have threatened to behead Obama in the White House in a video released on Jan. 26.
The video shows ISIS militants
standing in the streets of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, following
an artillery barrage on the city by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. In front
of the militants is seated a Kurdish soldier who is executed at the end
of the video.
Prior to the Kurdish soldiers
execution, the ISIS executioner delivered a message in Kurdish which was
subtitled into Arabic in the video.
"Know, oh Obama, that we will
reach America. Know also that we will cut off your head in the White
House and transform America into a Muslim province," the militant says
a ccording to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The militant then continues his
threat against other Western nations, saying "And this is my message to
France and its sister, Belgium. We advise you that we will come to you
with car bombs and explosive charges and we will cut off your heads."
The video appeared to be a response by ISIS against a multitude of setbacks
it has faced in the past week. On Jan. 26, ISIS fighters withdrew from
the Syrian-Kurdish city of Kobani after a failed four-month siege in
which the militant group lost as many as 1,500 fighters.
Simultaneously, the Kurdish
Peshmerga forces have started conducting operations aimed at dislodging
ISIS from Mosul, the crown-jewel of ISIS' reign in Iraq. Kurdish forces
have launched rockets
into Mosul in an attempt to target ISIS militants while US forces have
regularly conducted airstrikes in the region outside the city.
In retaliation for the strikes, the ISIS militants ended their video by executing the Kurdish soldier.
The militants also included a
warning for Kurdistan President Barzani: " This is one of your soldiers'
fate, and every time you launch a missile, we will send you back the
head of one of your soldiers."
