First there was “Jihadi John,” the now-notorious ISIS executioner with a British accent, featured prominently in several of the terror group’s most gruesome propaganda videos.
Now, ISIS has introduced a new English-speaking executioner, and his accent is causing many to take note.
He appears on a beach on the coast of Libya, dressed in tan fatigues and positioned at the center of over dozen black-clad militants leading an equal number of hostages — Egyptian Coptic Christians they ultimately decapitate brutally in front of the camera.
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The individual in question speaks for just under a minute and addresses the camera directly, most of his face obscured by a ski mask.
“Some of what is going on with his speech style is that this performance is a religious genre and a memorized script,” said Hazen.
