The Biafran: Hervé Gourdel

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Jund al-Khalifa ISIS affiliated group beheads kidnapped Frenchman in Algeria

Jund al-Khalifa ISIS affiliated group beheads kidnapped Frenchman, Hervé Gourdel in Algeria

An Algerian jihadist group Jund al-Khalifa today released a video claiming to have beheaded a French national, Hervé Gourdel, abducted in northeastern Algeria on Sunday. The beheading marks the first time an IS-linked group has killed a Western national outside the battle zones in Iraq and Syria.

In a grisly decapitation video posted on jihadist sites on Wednesday, Jund al-Khalifa militants said they killed Gourdel because France failed to respond to a 24-hour deadline to stop its military assault on the IS group in Iraq. The four-minute video begins with

Republic of Biafra Anthem

Land of rising sun, we love and cherish,
Beloved homeland of our brave heroes;
We must defend our lives or we shall perish,
We shall protect our hearts from all our foes;
But if the price is death for all we hold dear,
Then let us die without a shred of fear.

Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,
O fatherland, this be our solemn pledge:
Defending thee shall be a dedication,
Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege;
The waving standard which emboldens the free
Shall always be our flag of liberty.

We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal,
And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass;
When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal,
We shall remember those who died in mass;
Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song
Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.

Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall,
Guide all our movements lest we go astray;
Give us the strength to heed the humanist call:
To give and not to count the cost’ each day;
Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness,
To make this clime a land of righteousness.

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Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Jund al-Khalifa ISIS affiliated group beheads kidnapped Frenchman in Algeria