A video released by an Islamic State sub-group appears to show militants in Iraq praising the Paris shootings. Photo / YouTube
A video released by an Islamic State sub-group appears to show militants in Iraq praising the Paris shootings and warning that a similar attack could take place in Washington.
The message, distributed by Islamic State-related social network accounts, claimed to be made by Wilayat Kirkuk, a group based in Salahuddine
province, north of Iraq. Its authenticity could not immediately be confirmed.
The six-minute long video begins with a selection of news clips showing the aftermath of the attacks, with French President Francois Hollande condemning them.
Later in the video, a man identified as "Al Ghareeb the Algerian" speaks to the camera, threatening the "crusader" nations in the coalition against the Islamic State. The United States' capital city is specifically singled out.
"We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France's and by God, as we struck France in the centre of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its centre in Washington," the man shown says, according to a translation from Reuters.
