'British Jihadist' Video Calls For Iraq Recruits

A video purporting to show British jihadists urging Western Muslims to join them in Iraq has been released on social media.

The footage - which lasts 13 minutes and has not been independently verified - apparently features Britons and Australians fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

"We are aware of reports of the circulation of a ISIL (ISIS) recruitment video and are looking into them," said a Foreign and Commonwealth Office statement.

The Iraqi prime minister's spokesman in the UK, Dr Zuhair Al-Naher, told Sky News the video proves ISIS is a threat to the West.

"The video seems to show an organisation that respects no borders - this is why they are a danger not just to Iraq and the region but also to the West and Britain," he said.

"These terrorists will come back highly radicalised and militarised."

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The video emerged as ISIS, who have taken control of large swathes of Iraq, launched a global online campaign asking Muslims to post messages of support.

The organisation aims to get one billion Muslims posting on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram "to support the Islamic State".

Thousands of tweets have been posted using two hashtags.

"Today after Friday prayers we will be launching with the help of God the largest media campaign in support of an Islamic state," tweeted @AL_Bttaar, one of the apparent orchestrators.

An image outlining "duties" of those supporting the campaign is also in circulation.

The duties include talking "about the lies that enemies try to pin on ISIS" and to "tweet the talks of Sheikh Al Baghdadi", an ISIS chief. The image also urges supporters to post translations in English.

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Sky's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lisa Holland said ISIS is proving as capable on the web as on the battlefield.

"ISIS is calling on Sunni Muslims to join their jihad in a direct way not seen before," she said.

"We've seen fairly unsophisticated videos released by Al Qaeda but this is quite different. ISIS knows how to use the media both in terms of publicising their gains but also promoting their propaganda.

"They even seem to have a media hub."

ISIS has used social media to release videos of its fighters parading around towns they have claimed in northern Iraq.

Last week a series of horrific images of Iraqi soldiers being murdered were posted online.

Meanwhile, Twitter user Abu Rashash Britani, who claimed to be a British ISIS fighter and published a stream of vile tweets, has had his account suspended.

One of the co-founders of Twitter has told Sky News the platform remains a "force for good" despite being utilised by groups such as ISIS.

Biz Stone told #DigitalView, which airs on Saturday at 10.30am: "It's certainly a tool for good. When you create a large-scale platform where hundreds of millions of people have the freedom of expression you have to take the good with the bad.

"I'd rather this sort of thing be out in the open than hidden in the back waters."

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