DHAKA: Militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video on Tuesday that appears to show British journalist John Cantlie criticising preparations for US-led attacks on the militant group, the SITE monitoring service reported.

Islamic State, which controls territory in Syria and Iraq, has already executed two US journalists and one British aid worker in recent weeks in what it said was reprisal for US air strikes against it in Iraq.

In the five-minute video, the man identified as Cantlie suggests president Barack Obama, long careful to avoid the sort of conflicts his predecessor George Bush pursued, was being sucked into a war he could not win.

SITE reported, says The Straits Times.

‘The president once called George Bush's Iraq conflict a ‘dumb war’, and couldn't wait to distance America from it when he came into power. Now he’s being inextricably drawn back in,’ the man identified as Cantlie says.

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