London, Paris dismiss IS video as EU police warn of more attacks

France and Britain dismiss a video showing jihadists preparing for the Paris attacks in Islamic State territory, as the European police agency warned of more “large-scale terrorist attacks.”

Analysts say the 17-minute propaganda video showed a high level of coordination and planning ahead of the November 13 attacks in which Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Paris nightspots, killing 130 people.

Entitled “Kill wherever you find them”, the video features four Belgians, three French citizens and two Iraqis who took part in the assault. They all died on the night, or in a police raid days later.

The video, produced by IS’s Al-Hayat Media Centre, shows television news footage from the night of the attacks, as well as clips of the assailants delivering their final messages in French and Arabic.

They call on Muslims living in Europe to carry out lone-wolf attacks and, in particular, threaten Britain.

Images of French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron are also used, both with targets superimposed on them.

Referring to the 70-nation coalition fighting IS, purported attack ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud warns that “the more you wage war against the Islamic State, the more it will expand… for we are terrorists.”

But Hollande, who is on a visit to India, dismisses the threats.

“Nothing will deter us, no threat will make France waver in the fight against terrorism,” he tells reporters.

And Cameron’s office says the video showed “an appalling terrorist group that’s clearly in decline and in retreat.”

— AFP