ISIS fighter loses battle of wits with squawking bird in 'blooper reel' released by al-Qaeda

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ISIS fighter loses battle of wits with squawking bird in 'blooper reel' released by al-Qaeda
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The 34-second clip, promoted by al-Qaeda to mock its competitor, shows that even radical terrorists can get camera shy.

Unable to remember the words, the forgetful fighter pulls out a piece of paper to review his lines. He starts over as someone off-camera tells him to"stay calm, keep cool" according to a translation byTo the bumbler's right, a man with his face covered occasionally alternates between picking at the ground in front of him and looking up at the camera, his scarf hiding his identity but not his side-eye.

The post made its way on to mainstream social media thanks to Oxford University professor of Oriental studies, Dr. Elisabeth Kendall, who shared it on Twitter on Tuesday. In a follow-up tweet, Kendall reported that the video was originally posted by Hidaya Media, al-Qaeda's propaganda wing, earlier in the week. The video appears to use outtakes from an Yemeni ISIS promotional video from September 2017, she added—because good academics cite their sources, even on social media.cut of their shambolic pledge video ended with the jihadists huddled around a cooking pot, so I fear our heroic bird didn't make it.

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