ISIS Threatens Americans. If You Think They Are Kidding, Prepare To Convert Or Die.

IS militants threaten to 'drown Americans in blood' in new video

Author(s):  FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP
Source:  france24.com.     Article date: August 19th, 2014

The Islamic State (IS) militant group that has swept Iraq and drawn the first American airstrikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 warned the United States on Monday it will attack Americans “in any place” if the raids hit its militants.

The video shows a photograph of an American who was beheaded during the US occupation of Iraq, victims of snipers and US tanks being blown up in Iraq. A statement in English introduced under a Twitter hashtag, #AmessagefromISIStoUS, reads “we will drown all of you in blood”.

US airstrikes in northern Iraq have helped Kurdish fighters take back some territory captured by Islamic State militants (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, or ISIS), who have threatened to march on Baghdad.

Screengrab of the IS video released Monday.

Military aircraft have carried out 35 airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq over the past three days, destroying more than 90 targets, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The strikes marked the most intensive US bombardments of IS positions since they began on August 8.

Drones and fighter, bomber and attack jets “eliminated” Islamist fighters’ positions as the militants battled for control of a major dam in northern Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said.

“In all, we destroyed over 90 targets including a range of vehicles, equipment and fighting positions,” he added in a statement.

“Iraqi forces have cleared the dam and are working to further expand their area of control.”

The latest advance by the Islamic State militants sent tens of thousands of members of the Yazidi ethnic minority and Christians fleeing for their lives and alarmed the Baghdad government and its Western allies.

Unlike fellow terror groups in the region such as al Qaeda, the Islamic State group has so far focused on seizing land in Iraq and Syria for its self-proclaimed caliphate, rather than staging spectacular attacks on Western targets.

US President Barack Obama said at a news conference on Monday that the Islamic State posed a threat to Iraq and the entire region.