ISIS video claims to show boy executing two men accused of being Russian spies

A boy with a pistol appears to execute two men who are accused of being Russian spies in a new propaganda video released by the terror ISIS group. it appears to be the first time ISIS has shown a child carrying out an execution.

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In the video, the boy, who has been identified as Abdullah in prior ISIS videos, sports long hair and wears a black sweater and military fatigue pants The slender youth with shoulder-length hair appears to be younger than a teenager," Michaels wrote. "Near the end of the video, he purportedly executes the kneeling men with a pistol."

USA Today noted that ISIS has previously released videos that boasted of the terrorist organization's reach to recruit young people and highlighted its various military tactics. However, their latest video of a child executing two men is rare, prompting outrage across social media.

Mubin Sheikh, author of the book Undercover Jihadi, talked to USA Today about the reaction the video has received online.

"The video will whip up enthusiasm among the group's ardent supporters but has triggered 'revulsion' in the rest of the world," Sheikh said..

He stands behind the two men, who are kneeling, and shoots them in the back of the head in a theatrically produced video with slow motion. The boy stands over one of the bodies, fires two more times, and later raises his pistol high.

IS has held multiple foreign hostages, including a number of Western journalists and aid workers, beheading five of them in gruesome videos published online.

The group, which emerged from Al-Qaeda's one-time Iraq affiliate but has since split with the organisation, controls swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.

It has declared an Islamic "caliphate" in territory it holds and has been accused of abuses ranging from slavery to forms of crucifixion.

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Sources:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/14/middleeast/isis-video-boy-execution-russian-spies/

http://news.yahoo.com/video-purports-show-boy-executing-russian-spies-154813791.html

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography