ISIS woos rival fighters

May 23, 2015 01:47

A recently released propaganda recruitment video by ISIS shows Somali fighters in the group inviting other Somali jihadis to join their ranks.

In the roughly six-minute video, five unmasked men of Somali ethnicity arrive in large, new-looking SUVs. They are carrying weapons and surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards.

Speaking in Arabic under palm trees, the men take turns imploring Somalis and members of the insurgent group Al-Shabaab, whom they refer to as ''truthful mujahedeen" to join their movement to fight the West, and to pledge allegiance to ISIS.

This is the first time ISIS has appealed directly through video to Al-Shabaab to merge with them.

Al-Shabaab, meaning "the youth," is a Somalia-based insurgent group that formally pledged allegiance to international terror organization al Qaeda in 2012.

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