Islamic State message to America: 'we will drown all of you in blood'
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Islamic
State militant group that has seized large parts of Iraq and drawn the
first American air strikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 has
warned the United States it will attack Americans "in any place" if the
raids hit its militants.
The
video, which shows a photograph of an American who was beheaded during
the U.S. occupation of Iraq and victims of snipers, featured a statement
which said in English "we will drown all of you in blood".
U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq have helped Kurdish fighters take back
some territory captured by Islamic State militants, who have threatened
to march on Baghdad.
The
latest advance by the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot, 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
al-Qaeda, Islamic State has so far focused on seizing land in Iraq and
Syria for its self-proclaimed caliphate, not spectacular attacks on
Western targets.
U.S.
President Barack Obama said at a news conference on Monday that the
Islamic State posed a threat to Iraq and the entire region.
(The story was refiled to correct the third paragraph to remove reference to airstrikes on Kurdish fighters)
(Writing by Michael Georgy; editing by Ralph Boulton)
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