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NZ named in latest ISIS video

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Publish Date
Fri, 27 Nov 2015, 2:14PM
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NZ named in latest ISIS video

Author
NZME ,
Publish Date
Fri, 27 Nov 2015, 2:14PM

UPDATED: 4:43pm A polished, four-minute video has surfaced online through Isis' media outlet, the Al Hayat Media Center.

The video, entitled "No respite" features a graphic of 60 flags -- representing "The global coalition against the Islamic State" -- and includes New Zealand.

Isis has put huge effort into its social media presence, with security officials believing it uses the power of the internet as a force multiplier to attract those to its cause who might otherwise not be drawn to violence.

It produces a regular magazine, operates a slew of Twitter and other social media accounts and has dedicated teams producing highly stylised imagery intended to attract followers.

The terrorist group relies on those vulnerable to its messaging to spread it through their own social media accounts.

The video is almost solely aimed at the United States, with New Zealand featuring only among a display grid of flags.

It includes a heavy focus on suicide in the US military, although reports a death toll vastly inflated from official and independent figures.

The military suicide rate in the US has tripled between 2001 and 2013 -- from 52 to 176 people who took their own lives. The Isis video claims 18 military personnel take their lives each day for a total of 6500 annually.

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