AP and other outlets said that a video had been released by the group on militant websites and by militant sympathisers on social media on Saturday evening, in which the executioner with a British accent known as ‘Jihadi John’ beheads the freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker.
The video bore the symbols of the group’s al-Furqan media arm those used in previous videos released by the organisation, which now holds a third of both Syria and Iraq in its self-proclaimed caliphate. The Japanese government is currently working to authenticate the clip.
Entitled ‘A Message to the Government of Japan’, Japanese President Shinzo Abe is accused of being ‘reckless’ and taking part in an ‘unwinnable war’. The militant promises to cause carnage where ‘your [Japanese] people are found’.
Last night, Japan’s deputy foreign minister Yasuhide Nakayama said that efforts to free Mr Goto were ‘in a state of deadlock’. Source; metro.co.uk
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