Matthew 24:10, 12 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
A new Internet video purports to show the Islamic State beheading a Russian spy.
Multiple news agencies couldn’t verify the authenticity of the video or the claims within it.
The video ends with a man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling before a man holding a knife.
The man with the knife threatens Russian citizens and the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, according to reports. He then cuts the throat of the man in the jumpsuit and decapitates him.
Earlier in the video, the man in the jumpsuit is shown speaking to the camera.
Russian television network RT says the man in the jumpsuit claims to be Magomed Khasiev, a 23-year-old from Grozny. The report says the man describes how he was recruited by Russia’s Federal Security Service and gathered intelligence during undercover missions in Iraq and Syria.
CNN reports the man with the knife expressed displeasure with Russia’s recent airstrikes against the Islamic State and warned Russian citizens of retaliatory violent acts against life and property.
RT reports the Russian government hadn’t indicated any of its citizens were being held by ISIS.
I believe this video to be a fake. I think that ISIS fabricated it to “scare” away the Russians from continuing to fight in Syria. ISIS, being Arab terrorists, does not have the years of experience or the sophistication in military intelligence to root out a “spy”, let alone, a RUSSIAN one! I think that this is just psychological warfare to cause the Russians to falsely think that ISIS has the “ability” to track down their “spies” and neutralize Russia’s efforts in fighting and defeating ISIS. Middle-Eastern governments — with the exception of Israel — just do not, as yet, have the high-level training, like Russia’s allies, Cuba and Iran, to sift out and expose spies, as supposedly shown here in this video. I believe that video is just a psychological ploy to try to demoralize and weaken the resolve of Putin to keep going after ISIS.