By Ted Thornhill Chilling video footage appears to show a British militant taking part in the cold-blooded execution of a prisoner loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The film shows a man kneeling with his feet crossed and head bowed in a field in Syria, then being shot in the back of the head by a man armed with a pistol. Another man then fires at the prisoner with a machine gun. Researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) believe that this gunman is from London and is part of a militant group called Rahat al Tawheed (Banner of God).
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Chilling footage has emerged of a man being executed in a field in Syria
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Researchers believe that one of the gunmen involved is from London
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The gunman is thought to be from radical group Rahat al Tawheed
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The same man appears on several separate YouTube videos, say experts
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After analysing the physique, wristwatch and balaclava of the man with the machine gun, @placeholder concluded that it’s very probably the same man seen making pronouncements in a series of Rahat al Tawheed YouTube videos.