IG Al-Shabaab released the sick propaganda video online

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Fanatics can also be seen hunting and butchering a buffalo in the 16-minute clip, which has been widely shared online by armchair jihadists. A pair of white fighters appear in the film, titled From the Fortified Strongholds of Glory #3, but their faces are blurred. Other scenes show the terrorists leaping into a murky river, camping out in a jungle and going fishing.

IG The clip has been widely shared by armchair jihadists

The 'jihadi tourism' video was produced by Somali-based group al-Shabaab – which has links to al-Qaeda – in a desperate bid to attract new recruits. One fighter tells the camera: "As you can see our brothers here get injured to ease our journey, Allah has granted us this great reward – a giraffe. "Alhamdulillah [praise be to God] there is no shortage of meat here. It's a great blessing from Allah." And Osama bin Laden's supposed mentor, Abdullah Azzam, claims jihad is an "entertaining journey of tourism and hunting." He adds: "You eat, drink, sleep and hunt for free!"

IG The Somali-based group has links to al-Qaeda

Al-Shabaab has been fighting the the Somali government since 2007 but has struggled since being driven out of Mogadishu, the country's capital, in 2011. The group claims it has around 3,000 foreign fighters but the number is closer to 500, according to CNN. Large numbers are thought have fled to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria since it declared a caliphate last summer.

IG The group has been fighting the Somali government since 2007

Terror expert Matt Bryden said the clip was "one of their less sophisticated pieces of propaganda". He added: "I would be surprised if this was successful. "I don't think this footage is any more compelling than those images of combat, of scarf-wearing fighters in Somalia or Syria. "By linking fighting the jihad with dark safari imagery – I think there is probably only a very small audience for that."