'Jihadi John Junior': ISIS releases video of 14-year-old executioner

In a grim reminder of British executioner Mohammed Emwazi also known as 'Jihadi John', the Islamic State has released a new video showing a 14-year-old teenage assassin executing an alleged Iraqi spy.

'Jihadi John Junior': ISIS releases video of 14-year-old executioner

London: In a grim reminder of British executioner Mohammed Emwazi also known as 'Jihadi John', the Islamic State has released a new video showing a 14-year-old teenage assassin executing an alleged Iraqi spy.

According to a Daily Mail report, the video shows 'Jihadi John Junior' executing an alleged spy with a 9mm automatic pistol.

The report further adds that the video continues to show the boy loading the gun as his victim, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, kneels on ground.

The teenager, who is shown dressed in black with an Islamic State (IS) logo on his chest, then shoots the man dead and makes a statement to the United States, Russia and Europe vowing to wage terror on a global scale, according to the report.

However, the boy is never seen in the same frame when the fatal shots were fired, raising suspicions that the video has been carefully doctored to make it appear he was the executioner, though the shots were fired by an adult, as per the report.

The video also raises the disturbing possibility that young boys are increasingly being groomed to become the next generation of 'Jihadi Johns', the ISIS fighter charged with carrying out the most high-profile executions for the terror group.

Iraqi terror expert Nasser Kataw contended that the jihadists drugged its young killers to make them look brave.

The IS is known to give fighters doses of the anti-anxiety drug Zolam, which they have seized from looted hospitals, so they do not back out of their deadly suicide missions. 

(With Agency inputs)

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