Yousef speaks in clear, unaccented English, but his real identity is unknown. Yousef said he moved to Syria from America with his family two years ago.
“My father’s an American soldier who fought the mujahideen in Iraq,” he said in the video.
The video shows Yousef speaking Arabic, and also has clips where he appears to be reading from a Qur’an in Arabic. In other clips, he and the Yazidi boy walk through bombed out areas of Raqqa, and in another they follow an adult man into a building and assemble rifles and other weapons.
Six of the 131 Americans charged in ISIS-related cases have military backgrounds, according to statistics gathered by the George Washington University Program on Extremism. It is not known how many people with U.S. military backgrounds are fighting with ISIS abroad.
ISIS has also used Western hostages in propaganda videos. Most notably, it has used British journalist John Cantlie as a vessel to relay its message. Cantlie, who was taken hostage in Syria in 2012, has appeared in a number of psuedo-news broadcasts from ISIS relaying the advancements of its so-called caliphate.
“My father’s an American soldier who fought the mujahideen in Iraq,” he said in the video.
The video shows Yousef speaking Arabic, and also has clips where he appears to be reading from a Qur’an in Arabic. In other clips, he and the Yazidi boy walk through bombed out areas of Raqqa, and in another they follow an adult man into a building and assemble rifles and other weapons.
Six of the 131 Americans charged in ISIS-related cases have military backgrounds, according to statistics gathered by the George Washington University Program on Extremism. It is not known how many people with U.S. military backgrounds are fighting with ISIS abroad.
ISIS has also used Western hostages in propaganda videos. Most notably, it has used British journalist John Cantlie as a vessel to relay its message. Cantlie, who was taken hostage in Syria in 2012, has appeared in a number of psuedo-news broadcasts from ISIS relaying the advancements of its so-called caliphate.
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