By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--January 14, 2015
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A new video released by the terror group ISIS purports to show a young boy coldly executing two men who the terror group claims were Russian spies. The video, apparently produced by an ISIS media outlet and shared on Twitter, is seven minutes long and features “confessions” by the two men. In a heavily-edited section, the young boy, called a “lion’s cub,” is shown firing a pistol at the heads of the men, who each fall, apparently lifeless. A U.S. government official declined to comment on the authenticity of the video, and some observers online have noted that the event could have been staged. A former counter-terrorism official told ABC News, however, that the actual alleged murders appeared real enough to him. Russian officials declined to comment, according to international reports.We're going to show you an edited version of the video posted on Vocativ. They removed the actual shooting, but you get the idea: Meanwhile at the White House, Josh Earnest is lecturing the news media not to specifically mention radical Islam when talking about terrorism, suggesting that it would just be better to talk in terms of violent extremism in general. Because what reason could we possibly have to think that radical Islam is a particular problem? Lots of other "violent extremist" groups are beheading people and having small children shoot hostages too, right? Oh. They're not? Someone had better tell Josh Earnest. And his boss.
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