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Jihadists have released a video showing the murder of 21 Egyptian Christians, who they captured in Libya around Christmas.

The Egyptians, dressed in orange jumpsuits, were beheaded after being forced down on the ground. The video appeared on the Twitter feed of a website that supports the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). A caption on the five-minute video read: “The people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian church.”

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The video, released late Sunday night, depicted several men in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. The men are made to kneel and one militant, dressed differently that the others, addresses the camera in North American-accented English.

“All crusaders: safety for you will be only wishes, especially if you are fighting us all together. Therefore we will fight you all together,” he said. “The sea you have hidden Sheikh Osama Bin Laden’s body in, we swear to Allah we will mix it with your blood.”