The terrorist network ISIS responded to U.S. President Obama’s warning to it with a message of its own.
The video response is entitled “Flames of War.” The 50-second video is replete with music and sophisticated graphics and logos worthy of a Hollywood trailer. Created by the al-Hayat Media Center, the media arm for ISIS, the video mimics a movie trailer, and includes a clip of Obama saying, “U.S. combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq.” It follows with more shots of fiery destruction, the words (in English) “the fighting has just begun,” then fades out with the words “coming soon.”
According to MEMRI, the Al Hayat Media Center distributes diverse materials in several languages, including new videos, subtitling for videos, news articles and reports and translated jihadi materials.
Al Hayat also an an online English-language magazine, Dabiq.
Here is what ISIS wants the U.S. to see: