Video of British hostage John Cantlie released

(BBC) A new video has been released showing a British man believed to be held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants.

The man says he is journalist John Cantlie and that he is a prisoner.

Dressed in orange, Mr Cantlie, who in 2012 escaped an earlier kidnapping in Syria, asks why he and others have been abandoned by the US and UK governments.

IS has recently killed three hostages and, in a video showing the death of UK aid worker David Haines, threatened to kill British man Alan Henning next.

'Unwinnable conflict'

No IS militants are seen in the video, which is entitled "Lend Me Your Ears" and is addressed to the Western public.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29258201


-- BBC 2014-09-19

Lookng at the info re. John Cantlie's first kidnapping (he obviously didn't get the message) on Wikipedia, I found this quote from a captive taken with him, rather telling.

"Oerlemans says some of the British Muslims stood over him holding a rock as though to smash it onto his head and shouted, "die, kaffir, die!" Oerlemans then stated that "the British guys were the most vindictive of them all." "